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Share the Fruits and Vegetables of Your Garden
Garden abundance offers an opportunity to share food with your community! This is the time of year when home vegetable gardens reach their peak with summer produce ready for picking. Just walking...
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Growing Dwarf Apple Trees
Dwarf apple trees can fit into practically any sunny, small-space garden. Walking out on your deck, balcony, or patio and being able to pick fresh apples off your own tree may be a dream to most...
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Fall Anemones for the Garden
Pink Japanese anemones dance against the autumn sky. Here it is October in the Pacific Northwest, and cool moist weather is upon us after a hot and dry summer. The recent rains and cool temperatures...
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DIY Layered Bulb Pots for Big Spring Color
A layered bulb basket just begins to break bud in early spring. Early in the new year, when I see the first crocus poke up through the soil to herald the coming of spring, I know that my bulb pots are...
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Western Native Evergreen Shrubs for Landscapes
Oregon grape berries in winter In recent years, I have noticed a substantial increase in the use of native shrubs for the home garden. Many are diverse and beautiful while growing well in local...
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Making Space for Gardening: The Portland Community Garden Story
Gardeners in an Oregon community garden harvest late-season vegetables. (Image by Dawn Grunwald) Throughout the United States, urban community gardens have become a common thread that helps bring...
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Eight Best Flowering House Plants
Moth orchids are one of the easiest to grow! (Image by Jessie Keith) House plants have made a resurgence in popularity over the past several years and the trend shows no signs of diminishing. On a...
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Pruning Shrub Roses in Spring
Spring pruning makes shrub roses tidier and prettier. Exactly what does it mean when a rose is called a ‘shrub rose’? In Taylor’s Dictionary for Gardeners a shrub is defined as “A woody plant that is...
View ArticleVLOG: How to Prune Hybrid Tea Roses
Here are great tips for how to prune hybrid tea roses. This how-to video covers everything from the needed pruning tools to the proper pruning height. The post VLOG: How to Prune Hybrid Tea Roses...
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Edible Landscaping
Pots of lettuce look great in spring or fall gardens. As I visit gardens, it is a delight to see more and more gardeners incorporating edible plants into their landscape. It has not been that many...
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Connect through Curbside Community Gardening
This street-side strip went from sad lawn to glorious garden, and it inspired a neighborhood. Gardening is contagious! I don’t mean that in a bad way, but in the way that it spreads from one person to...
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Milkweed for Monarch Butterflies
Monarch on tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica). (Image by Jessie Keith) Over the last several years, I have become more aware of growing plants in my garden that are friendly to birds, bees, and...
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Pruning Shrub Roses in Spring
Spring pruning makes shrub roses tidier and prettier. Exactly what does it mean when a rose is called a ‘shrub rose’? In Taylor’s Dictionary for Gardeners a shrub is defined as “A woody plant that is...
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A Vertical Vegetable Garden in the City
A well-trained triple-grafted tomato is a big space saver! Salem, Oregon gardener Harry Olson has taken vertical gardening to new heights, (literally). Harry’s home is on a small city lot and because...
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Beautyberry for Bountiful Fall Color
Branches laden with bright purple berry clusters can be a very pleasant surprise to those unaware of the virtues of beautyberry (Callicarpa spp.). These berries provide a bright spot of color,...
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Growing Hardy Chrysanthemums
‘Hillside Sheffield Pink’ is a classic hardy mum with extra fragrant flowers. (Image by Jessie Keith) As I recently drove into my local garden center, I noticed the marquee sign along the highway read:...
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The Best Fragrant House Plants
Orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) In the Pacific Northwest, where our winter days are often rainy and overcast, (some would say dark and gloomy), it is a bonus to have an indoor environment where...
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Dwarf Conifers for All-Season Beauty
A dwarf white spruce shows off its winter cones. Dwarf conifers are often overlooked as both landscape or container plants. In recent years there have been many new cultivars of dwarf conifers that...
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Captivating Cape Primroses for Indoor Color
After the holiday season is over and the poinsettias have been discarded, the home can seem to be rather bleak with no color from blooming plants. Having indoor color to brighten some of the dark and...
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