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Mike Darcy’s Fall Garden Tasks For a Happy Garden
As potted annuals and vegetables die back, it is time to clean them up for the season. Mike Darcy’s Fall Garden Tasks For a Happy Garden RAIN! We actually had rain. Not just rain but enough to clean...
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Effortless Junipers for Practically Every Garden
Ground cover junipers look handsome when planted in spacious containers. There are few plants that come in as many different forms as the juniper. The Genus Juniperus includes plants that are grown as...
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Unique Poinsettias for the Holidays
These days, poinsettias come in all shades of red, white, and pink. Some are even apricot and salmon hues. ‘Jingle Bells’, ‘Winter Rose Red’, ‘Whitestar’, ‘Cortez Burgundy’, etc., are just some of the...
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Winter Garden Tasks for a Happy Garden- 2022
January is a good time to remove old Helleborus leaves, just be sure not to accidentally snip flower stems. December was a month of trying to get my winter garden tasks all done before the end of the...
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Favorite Old & New Salvias For Flower Gardens
The red and white ‘Hot Lips’ is heat-tolerant and beautiful. It would be difficult to come up with a group of plants that can add as much to the garden, in so many ways, as the flowering sages in the...
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Beyond Your Average Dogwood
‘Satomi’ is a classic pink Korean dogwood to try. The diversity of dogwoods (Cornus spp.) goes way beyond the common eastern flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), which is much-loved but prone to serious...
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Spring Garden Tasks for a Happy Garden 2022
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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The Best Reblooming Clematis
When visiting older established gardens, if there is a border garden, it will probably contain at least one of these three plants: peony, bearded iris, and clematis. These are often considered...
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Summer Garden Tasks
by Mike Darcy The spring season of 2022 will not go down the annals of ideal gardening weather here in the Pacific Northwest. We had record rain and cool, (cold), days and nights which delayed the...
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The November Garden
November is a sort of in-between month. Our warm days are gone, and we are into, what I would call, a typical Oregon fall season. The daylight hours are shorter, the rainy season is here, day and...
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Camellias in the Garden by Mike Darcy
Camellias have been a part of American gardens for several hundred years. Native plants to China, Japan, and SE Asia, some plants were probably brought to England in the 1700’s. At this time, they...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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