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Who loves going on garden tours? After all, they’re a great opportunity to stroll through some of the area’s finest gardens. The Spokane in Bloom Garden Tour is next Saturday, June 17th, and features 7 gardens on Spokane’s north side. That’s the subject of my garden column today and here is a link to it: Annual Spokane in Bloom tour features […]
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Who loves a plant sale? All of us, right? In my humble opinion, the Friends of Manito have the most comprehensive collection of wonderful plants. And they all grow well in our Inland Northwest gardens. My column today is a preview of the Friends of Manito Plant Sale.It will take place on Saturday, June 3 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]
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This week’s column is a preview of Spokane’s premier gardening event: Garden Expo. If you enjoy gardening (or if you’re shopping for a special Mother’s Day gift), you owe it to yourself to go! Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Annual Expo aims to educate local gardeners. Garden Expo has been hosted by […]
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Next Saturday, Apr. 29, the Spokane County Master Gardeners will hold their annual Garden Fair & Plant Sale. That’s the topic of my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review. Here’s a link to it: Get plants, advice at garden fair. The Garden Fair & Plant Sale will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and be held in and around the […]
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Have you ever taken a moment to admire a tree and appreciate all it does for the environment around it? Trees are pretty amazing and they just happen to be the topic of my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review. Here’s a link to it: Trees give us so much, including beauty, clean air, sustenance. It seemed like an […]
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With the garden season getting underway, I decided a column on compost and composting would be in order. After all, if we take care of the soil in our gardens, it in turn will take care of our plants and — in the case of veggies — provide us with higher yields. Sounds good to me! Here is a link […]
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I will be teaching a class on raised bed gardening on Saturday, March 25th from 9 a.m. to noon and would like to invite all of you to it! My husband Bill and I have been growing our vegetable garden in raised beds since the 1980’s and I can’t imagine growing them any other way. This talk will be held […]
Read moreOne of the highlights of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle each year is walking through the amazing display gardens. When you take into account the fact that these beautiful, inspiring, finished gardens have all been created inside a concrete-floored convention center — and in a short period of time — it’s really a feat we can all appreciate. […]
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There’s an annual event coming up that I’ve consistently described in past years as being “the most fun a gardener can have in a day!” And it still holds true. The Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium will be on Saturday, March 11 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation of Spokane County and features […]
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Here’s a fun event coming up: the Spokane International Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 27 through Feb. 5. And there’s one film in particular that should be of interest to gardeners: “Portrait of a Garden,” which I’ll be hosting on Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. Here is the description of the film: In a historical vegetable garden on a […]
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