For more than twenty-five years, with few time-outs, I have attended Seattle’s Northwest Flower & Garden Festival. This year, in the gardens created on the show floor, I was struck by the tawny shades of winter—tan, brown, gray, and almost black—apparent in many of the displays. Not that the gardens didn’t show off massive amounts […]
“By the Light, of the Silvery Moon” was top of the charts in the early 1900s; a vaudeville standard that young lovers crooned to each other…given the chance, which was often taken beneath a full moon to the gentle strum of a ukelele echoing across a garden’s shrubbery depth, accompanied by a girlish giggle and […]
In an increasingly uncertain world, food security is high on the national agenda – but sowing, growing and saving our own seed sparks a virtuous cycle that lets gardeners take back control. What if I told you that the adaptability and resilience we’ll need to navigate the growing uncertainties in a future of profound climatic […]
