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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 an event coming up in the spring that you need to know about: the Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium, which 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 and […]
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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. Why did I write about flowers? Well, aside from the obvious reasons (beauty, fragrance, attracting pollinators, etc.), I’ve been walking through my landscape and really […]
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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. The Friends of Manito is an awesome group of volunteers who donate so many hours of their […]
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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. I think a lot of folks are unaware of the wide variety of native plants available to us and how they add to our gardens. Many […]
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Take a close look at the photo to the left (you can click on it to see a larger image). Is this a sick rhododendron? 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 […]
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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, which got me to 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. Note that you can click on any of the photos within this post to view a larger image. […]
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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, but there are many new gardeners and homeowners who see the lichens and are concerned that some sort of disease […]
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One of my favorite shrubs is the Viburnum. They are such great, all-around plants in my garden with so many wonderful attributes: beautiful flowers, some have a lovely fragrance, most produce berries, and they have awesome fall foliage. I mean, what’s not to like about Viburnums? Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Vibrant, […]
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