With visual appeal, convenience, and controlled soil conditions, it’s no surprise that raised garden beds are popular among novice and seasoned gardeners alike. Whether you’re just starting to work...
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Ground Covers, Creepers & Cascading Perennials
Dress up your retaining wall, adorn a pathway, or plant living mulch with these low-growing or mounding perennials. We have featured some of our favorite plants from this category below to help you...
How to Refresh a Tired Container Planting
After a few years, most container plantings begin to show signs of decline. The plants start to lose their vigor, while the soil appears hard and compacted, now sitting far below the edge of the...
Our Favorite Spring Flowering Shrubs in the Northwest
Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and Pieris are considered classic Pacific Northwest landscape plants. Mostly evergreen and Spring blooming, they thrive in our acidic soil and temperate climate and are...
New & Noteworthy Plants for 2022
Each year the National Garden Bureau selects an annual, perennial, bulb crop, edible, and shrub as "Year of " plants, plus a houseplant for this year. Plants are chosen because they are popular,...
Magnolias for Small Gardens
Magnolia trees come in a multitude of shapes, sizes, and flowering types, and many of them are perfect for growing in small, urban gardens. This is an ancient genus within the plant world, believed...
Improving Soil Health
The single most valuable investment in your home landscape is soil improvement—healthy soil means healthy, productive, beautiful plants! Soil that is healthy is loose, nutritious (and thereby,...
Warm Weather Planting Tips
Here we are in early June and temperatures have already reached over 90 degrees! The excitement of planting may be tempered by the need to keep plants hydrated and healthy through the summer (and...
Gardening by Moonlight: Ideas for Night Gardens
Summer evenings in the garden can be one of the best ways to end a busy day. There are many reasons to plant a night garden—to unwind after work, decompress once the kids are in bed, marvel in the...
The Green Industry: Creating a Better Environment to Live, Work, and Play
The green industry is much more than people growing, planting, selling, and maintaining plants—it is an art, a profession, a hobby, a science, and a lifestyle. It creates a better environment...
Incorporating Pantone’s Colors of the Year into Your Home & Office
After the crazy 2020 we’ve all experienced, Pantone (a universal language of color) thought we could use two colors for 2021’s “color of the year” and they were absolutely right! The two colors...
How to Create Your Own Living Fence With Hedgerows
Sometimes called windbreaks, shelter belts, or conservation buffers, hedgerows are layers of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses that create living fences with the ability to grow food, shelter...












