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Knowing where to start in the garden can be a completely overwhelming feeling. There's so many weeds! There's too much to do! The grass...

Right this minute, it's already mid-August and I've only just now carved out a few minutes to peel off my gloves and put down my hand-hoe...

A few weeks ago, a client asked me if I had ever heard about a local company that makes garden compost. And for legal reasons, I'm not...

A Monthly Garden Guide for July Here in the Pacific Northwest, it finally feels like summer and it finally is summer! Annual flowers are...

Lately, here on Vashon Island, it's felt a lot more like spring than winter! The frigid cold and incessant rain of January subsided in...

Summer ended with a sigh of relief here on Vashon Island. Most of my perennial plants were at their wits' end after a hot and dry summer...

In my last post, I declared to the world that winter is a time for reprieve from the garden--to relax and rejoice in the fact that there...

Winter is in full swing here in the Pacific Northwest and as I sit in my kitchen, drinking tea, curled up in a quilt, and warmed by the wood