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So many annual garden events have been canceled this year. It’s enough to make a gardener cry, isn’t it? Well, I have some upbeat news for Inland Northwest gardeners. The Friends of Manito will be holding a multi-day plant sale next week! You can read about it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Friends of Manito plant sale grows in […]
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Shrubs & Hedges: Discover, Grow, and Care for the World’s Most Popular Plants by Eva Monheim (Cool Springs Press, 2020, 224 pp., $30) Sometimes it seems like perennials are the darlings of the horticultural world. We gardeners love the colors and variations of the many different flowers we’ve added to our gardens over the years. But shrubs are much easier […]
Read moreThere is a springtime event coming up that you need to know about. It’s the Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium. This special event is put on by the Spokane County Master Gardeners and Master Gardener Foundation of Spokane County. Why do you need to know about something that won’t take place until March 21? Because tickets for it sell out quickly […]
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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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If you live in the Inland Northwest, you won’t want to miss the Friends of Manito Spring Plant Sale next weekend! That’s the topic of my garden column and here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Find water-wise plants at Manito sale. Or you can read my column below (don’t miss this week’s video underneath it!). The Friends of […]
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For my garden column this week, I wrote about adding native plants to your landscape. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Native plants a natural fit for home landscapes. (or you can read my column lower in this post) Background on native plants column: I think a lot of folks are unaware of the wide […]
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Take a close look at the photo to the left. Do you see how the rhododendron leaves are curled? Is this a sick plant? Is it doomed to a terrible fate? Nope, it’s just a very cold rhodie that is doing what it can to get through our cold winters! This doesn’t happen to all rhododendrons, though. When my husband […]
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Today’s column is on a fun and useful topic: fragrant plants for your garden. I have several types of fragrant plants in my own garden. And that got me thinking about coming up with a list we can all use as a resource. Enter my awesome Master Gardener colleagues! I decided to email about 10 of them because I didn’t […]
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On Monday, I shared some of my favorite yellow spring flowers with you. Today, let’s look at pink and purple. It seems like they are easier to find this time of year, but they sure add a lot of depth to the garden. Alliums _ Our ‘Purple Sensation’ alliums started blooming about 10 days ago and they are stunning. I […]
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Take a close look at this photo. What you’re seeing on the branches of my apple tree are colonies of lichens. You may have noticed them in my latest video on spring pruning. You might already be familiar with it. However, lichens can alarm many new gardeners and homeowners. They are concerned that some sort of disease has attacked their […]
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