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GIFT IDEAS FOR GARDENERS by Mike Darcy
Selecting a gift for a gardener is not as easy as it sounds. Depending on how well you know the gardener and the garden, it can be challenging to select a gift that would be both useful...
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Best Flowers for Cutting by Mike Darcy
“To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it….So in later years I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick.” Anne Scott James As the spring and...
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Plants to Attract Hummingbirds by Mike Darcy
Hummingbirds are rather magical in a garden, and it is a summer delight to see them zoom from one flower to the next. It is hard to think of any reason not to like hummingbirds. With wings flapping at...
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Make Your Own Hanging Basket by Mike Darcy
If you have been to a garden center recently, you probably have seen a variety of various hanging baskets, all of which were very colorful. The temptation is strong to buy a ready-made one and I do...
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Earth Day 2025, Our Power, Our Planet
The month of April has a lot going for it, especially for gardeners! Even though the official date for the beginning of the spring season is in March. April is often the month that gardeners get into...
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Starting Tomato Seeds & Tuberous Begonias
Tomato seeds! Where to start? So many to choose from! Looking over a recent garden catalog arrival, there were over 100 different named cultivars of tomato seed offered for sale. It is hard to think...
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Big Bold Hostas
Not all hostas are going to be ‘big and bold’ like ‘Empress Wu’, (photo above), but being one of the largest growing hostas, it certainly does make a statement! At the opposite end of the spectrum...
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Favorite Summer Garden Herbs
The flowers of English lavender and sage complement each other in the early summer garden. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme is one of the most popular songs by Simon and Garfunkel, and both the herbs...
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Glorious Hydrangeas for the Summer Garden
Blue lacecap hydrangeas are garden favorites, especially ‘Nachtigall’ (singer of the night). (Image by Mike Darcy) The name Hydrangea denotes water and comes from the Greek words, hydor (water) and...
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The Best Reblooming Clematis
Clematis alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’ first blooms in April and again later in the season. When visiting older established gardens, if there is a border garden, it will probably contain at least one of...
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Celebrating Colorful Coleus
Coleus ‘Henna’ is a real color-filled beauty with shades of green, orange, and purple. Long ago, Coleus had been considered a house plant. I can remember, my grandmother always had coleus growing in...
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Spring Garden Tasks for a Happy Garden
Spring is here! Officially it was March 20th, but I knew it was spring as soon as I saw the daffodils emerge. The hellebores have been glorious this year, but as their late-winter flowers slowly fade,...
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My Favorite Garden Lilies
Pink martagon lilies are a garden delight. In honor of the National Garden Bureau’s Year of the Lily, I decided to write about my garden favorites. Big, bold, and gorgeous, garden lilies can make a...
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Lovely Winter Jewels®Hellebores
Many new double-flowered Lenten roses have been developed by Northwest Garden Nursery in Eugene, OR. In mid-January, the Portland, Oregon metro area endured a horrid wind, ice, and snowstorm....
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Winter 2024 In My Pacific Northwest Garden
If you are like me in January, your e-mail inbox looks like mine with winter warning messages from the city, county, and state. The headings read: “Emergency Alert!” or “Storm Update!” The cold and...
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Mulching Frost Tender Plants
It seems as though many gardeners, including myself, are always on the lookout for a new and/or unusual plant. Even plants that might be known as not being winter-hardy are often worth a try....
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Fall Rose Care
Here it is in mid-October and many roses are still blooming. There are few shrubs, if we can call roses ‘shrubs’, that have such a long blooming season. For us, (in the Pacific Northwest), they...
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Plants That Perform In the Hot Summer Sun
We have had some very hot weather here in the Pacific Northwest and in some cases, previous high temperature records have been broken. Not only have we had very hot and sunny days, but there has been...
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Summer Color by Mike Darcy
With the cool and rainy wet spring that we had here in the Pacific Northwest, most plants seemed to be about two weeks behind what would have been their ‘normal’ schedule. The weather delayed many...
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Hanging Baskets by Mike Darcy
Hanging baskets and the month of May seem to go together. On a recent visit to several different garden centers, the selection of colorful hanging baskets was vast. It was not that many years ago that...
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