Fragrance in the Wild Western Garden: Uncommon Conifers
Gardens exist for many purposes ranging from practical and pleasing to bewildering, amazing, and instructive. A stroll through a fragrance garden can …
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Gaultheria
Amongst the best evergreen groundcovers are some of the nearly 180 species of Gaultheria. Their evergreen, alternate leaves distinguish them, as do th…
A Bevy Of Balsams
The time has come for new stars in the genus Impatiens, often called balsams and formerly regarded as filler for annual beds, to be illuminated on the…
The White Garden
Not only do white flowers have the unique grace of lighting up the garden, especially at dusk, but they rest the eye and enhance the colors of the flo…
Great Plant Picks 2006 Collection of Rambler Roses
By highlighting a small collection of healthy, low-maintenance rambler roses among the Great Plant Picks for 2006, the GPP team hopes to draw attentio…
Great Plant Picks for Container Gardens
Every garden, no matter how grand or petite, is made richer by a well-planned container, be it exuberant, elegant, eccentric, or edgy. With this intro…
The Northwest Garden in Winter
Here in the Pacific Northwest, garden chores continue through the winter— sitting in front of the fire poring over garden catalogs and planning for …
A Garden in Eugene
When Buell and I moved into our new home in Eugene, Oregon, in August, 2002, we realized we were taking on a sizable challenge, despite our nearly ten…
Tender But Tough: The Old Tea Roses
In the 1930s and early 1940s, whenever Francis and Marjorie Lester left their nursery, which they had moved from Monterey to Watsonville in 1937, they…