June 30 Column: Flowers for Season-Long Bloom

For this week’s garden column, I decided to focus on flowers. I mean, they’re pretty wonderful, aren’t they? You can read my column by going to today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Flowers for season-long bloom. Or you can read my column below (don’t miss this week’s video underneath it!). Why did I choose this topic? Well, aside from the obvious […]

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Travel Stories: Jardin de Sericourt, France 2019

Jardin de Sericourt

After leaving Jardin Plume (see previous blog post), our group headed north to visit Jardin de Sericourt. I had learned of this amazing garden by watching Monty Don’s video series, “The Gardens of France.” I am so glad I included this in our itinerary. This garden has received France’s “Remarkable garden” status. It also was voted best garden of 2012 […]

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Travel Stories: France Tour 2019

France tour, Monet's garden

I’ve just returned from the France tour that I led. What an awesome trip it was! Twenty-four wonderful folks joined me and we saw so many beautiful gardens and chateaus. Today is the first in a series of posts about the France tour and we’re starting with the first garden we visited, Claude Monet’s beautiful garden in Giverny. Experiencing Monet’s […]

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June 16 Column: Spokane Rose Show

Spokane Rose Show

The Spokane Rose Show will be held next Saturday (June 22). In addition to having the opportunity to look at breathtakingly gorgeous roses, you’ll get to hear renowned rose hybridizer Ping Lim speak about everyone’s favorite flower. That’s the topic of my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Renowned hybridizer works to make roses easy, even in cooler climates. […]

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June 2 Column: Observing Good Cultural Practices in Your Garden

cultural practices

For today’s garden column, I’ve focused on something that we probably all know, but tend to forget about. That is observing good cultural practices in the garden so our plants thrive. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review:  Follow best practices to keep plants thriving. Or you can read it below (don’t miss this week’s video […]

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