The Once and Future Northwest Prairie
The mown lawns of suburbia attest to a human love of open, grassy places. Cultural anthropologists speculate that lawns have a direct link to the…
Seasons: Spring
It’s a Tree for All
Ask any child to draw a city and common images emerge: tall buildings, roads and cars, pavement. However, throughout the West, these crayon-rendered s…
Planting in the Shadowlands
Creating a beautiful and well-designed understory can be a challenging and daunting task in the dry summer climate of the Pacific Northwest. Often, an evergreen…
Bee with Me
Our mission at Crown Bees is to increase the number of native bees in North America. The struggle of the honeybee is well known, but…
A Living Reminder
[sidebar]For more information and a side show of images visit Portland Memory Garden[/sidebar] In 1999, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) marked its centennial…
Is it a Zoo or is it a Garden?
The word “zoo” is short for “zoological gardens,” —historically a place to collect and foster animals. True to that definition, when we think of a…
Jello Mold Farm
Artists, a performer, and now eco-friendly flower farmers and advocates for others in their field, Diane Szukovathy and Dennis Westphall of Jello Mold Farm have…
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…
Celebrating Spring
Spring is the renaissance season—a time of rebirth and new growth—when flowers, fresh foliage, and transformation abound. For gardeners and plant lovers, it’s an occasion…