by Bruce Bennett • With the great diversity of Northwest plants, it should not be surprising how similar some can look! This situation can work in your favor as one of those lookalikes may be a better plant for the growing conditions of that bare spot in your landscape. If you wind up doing some plant […]
by Bruce Bennett • Autumn is a great time to look to leaf foliage or berries for color without the need for flowers. Many foliage plants even develop better color when temperatures drop. For example, dwarf heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) ‘Fire Power’ never looked better when its fire engine red color develops during the cool […]
by Bruce Bennet • The last three years have given us some of the increasingly hottest weather on record and forecasts for the next decade really don’t provide us much hope for the cooler, “normal” weather cycles. The next logical step in landscape development includes the issue of global warming in our part of the […]
Title: Weeds: ob-NOXIOUS and Otherwise 6-11-2013 Author: Christina Lacie Date Published: 2013/06/11 Weeds: ob-NOXIOUS and Otherwise By Christina Lacie | Posted: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:00 pm There are commonplace weeds like Dandelion, Catchweed bedstraw (long clingy things), Shotweed and Bindweed (to name a few) that we deal with regularly. Yank. Pull. Yank. Pull. And […]
Title: Weeds: ob-NOXIOUS and Otherwise 6-11-2013 Author: Christina Lacie Date Published: 2013/6/11 Weeds: ob-NOXIOUS and Otherwise By Christina Lacie | Posted: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:00 pm There are commonplace weeds like Dandelion, Catchweed bedstraw (long clingy things), Shotweed and Bindweed (to name a few) that we deal with regularly. Yank. Pull. Yank. Pull. And […]
Title: Bewitching In Winter 11-30-2011 Author: Christina Lacie Date Published: 2011/11/30
Title: Bringing The Outdoors In 11-9-2011 Author: Christina Lacie Date Published: 2011/11/09
Title: Winterizing Your Garden 10-26-2011 Author: Roger McPherson Date Published: 2011/10/26 I am writing this from the perspective of the weather that we face in Port Townsend with cold down to about 20 degrees, strong winds and quite a bit of rain. We could get a hard frost just about anytime so you should […]
Published 10-19-2011 in the Port Townsend Leader A_Water_wise_garden_makeover 10-19-2011 “Save Water. Combine various textures, sizes and shapes of drought tolerant plants to reinvent your garden.”
Title: Tackling Turf 9-21-2011 Author: Christina Lacie Date Published: 2011/09/21
