Old Roses for the Water-Saving Gardener
Roses have the unfortunate reputation of being almost insatiable drinkers of water. Granted, that is true for most modern roses, especially the hybrid teas and…
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Laboratory Report (July 2020)
Bees Bite Plants to Encourage Flowering It’s every bumblebee’s nightmare: it is spring, and you are finally out and about, but the neighborhood plants are…
Transform Your Barren Parking Strip Into Pollinator-Friendly Habitat
One of the most awkward, yet rewarding, gardening challenges can be found in that neglected patch of turfgrass between the sidewalk and the curb: your…
Touring South Sound Gardens
Six gardens in the south Puget Sound/Seattle area found a creative solution by joining together to market and support each other. South Sound Gardens, a…
A Photographer Looks at Hoyt Arboretum
It is way too easy to forget that Pacific Coast gardens can have wonderful fall color. But not after my visit to Hoyt Arboretum in…
A Place to Mend Hearts and Heal Minds
If you’ve ever used nature to calm your mind or heart, then you’ve experienced the underlying basis of the Strolls for Well-Being program at Bloedel…
Gardening Together
Holly Zipp began her tenure at the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden as an intern in July of 2009. On one of her first days there she walked the te…
Women in Horticulture
For the special “Women in Horticulture” issue of Pacific Horticulture (Summer 2019), we’ve called out the following stories in the online archives; this is but…
A Tribute to our Retiring Board Members
Thank you to these retiring PHS board members, people whose hearts, heads, and hands are at work in a variety of dimensions promoting the power of hor…