Solving the Mystery of the Lost Apples with Garden Futurist David Benscoter
Spring 2024 Listen to the podcast here. For those who love a good mystery, the work to rediscover rare and thought-to-be-extinct heirloom varieties of apples…
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The Changing Western Climate: How It’s Likely to Affect You, Your Garden, and the Climate Zone Maps You Depend Upon
It helps to understand how delicately balanced the earth’s climate system must be. To survive, we need a planet doused in temperature-stabilizing fr…
Designing Spaces
Making a garden is a creative expression. And as we all know, an intellectual exercise as well as a physical one.
Updating an Historic Garden
Living in a garden that has been around for over ninety years definitely has its challenges. When the two of us moved into the curators’ house at th…
Horticulture Beyond the Backyard: A Tale of Three Ditches
My husband Ib and I live in an older area of North Delta, in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. Our storm water drainage system is a patchwork of c…
How and Why to Grow Your Own Fruit
Summer 2024 Throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, gardeners and landscape professionals regularly wrestle with the decision as to the kinds and quantities of plants…
Orchestrating Color and Joy
When the idea of creating a garden and a temporary exhibition space at the foot of Seattle’s Space Needle was first conceived, vintage automobiles w…
Tricyrtis: Tantalizing Toad Lilies
My eyes gaze over the fall garden. Hostas, so full and vital in spring and summer, succumb to their winter dormancy. Astilbes fade, geraniums melt int…
Dry Slope Gardening in Seattle
Though mostly known for its woodland garden of choice woody and herbaceous plants, the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden also offers a sunny, dry sl…