What's New?
Everything new and updated around the site.
Acer griseum
Paperbark maple
Plant Gallery & Growing Guide — Shrubs and Trees
Primula 'Penumbra'
SILVER-LACED PRIMROSE, SILVER LACE POLYANTHUS
YouTube
Epimedium x rubrum
BISHOP'S HAT
Plant Gallery & Growing Guide — Perennials
Viburnum trilobum
HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY
Plant Gallery & Growing Guide — Shrubs
Amelanchier alnifolia
WESTERN SERVICEBERRY, SASKATOON SERVICEBERRY, SASKATOON BERRY, JUNE BERRY
Plant Gallery & Growing Guide — Natives
A Beachy Summer Getaway with Music in the Gardens Tour
The ultimate weekend for garden tour lovers is filled with music and gardens with plants, art, and great designs.
Blog
Cornus capitata
EVERGREEN DOGWOOD
Plant Gallery — Shrubs
A Living Fossil — Ginkgo biloba
Once upon a prehistoric time, the deciduous Ginkgo biloba grew around the globe.
Articles
When the Kousa Dogwoods Bloom
When the flowers swing into full showoff mode.
Articles
From My Journal — The Holman Vista Trail
This is a rare day to cherish, as I walk the easy Holman Vista trail in near silence.
Natives
Dynamic Winter Containers
Winter, are you ready for some vibrant color in the garden?
Containers
2020 New Plants for a New Year
Avid gardeners have a lot to celebrate in the New Year.
Articles
Scents & sensibilities — the fragrant winter garden
Winter is a fickle old friend to gardeners.
Blog
The Little Big Garden
Downsizing a garden to a manageable area does not mean you give up on charm.
Articles
Fun with Tillandsias
Still-life gardening.
Containers
A Few Herbs — A Little Spice — A Little Lore
Imagine life without spice — boring!
Articles
Mosquito Control Time
Keep the mosquitoes in check with the organic control of bt doughnuts in your ponds or water features.
Articles
Intertwining death and life in nature
Stumps, huckleberries, and salal are often a threesome in the forest.
Natives
Frondescent Pleasure!
...where beautiful foliage creates balance and harmony, and a place to relax the eyes.
Articles
Exciting New Plants from 2019
2020 — a new decade and an exciting time with a new season’s plant hunt.
Articles
The Stories Aquilegias Could Tell
The genus Aquilegia (columbine) has been cultivated and beloved by gardeners for centuries.
Articles
Coleus, Coleus
A two-coleus container takeover.
Containers
The Many Faces of Bark
What’s left in winter is their proverbial bones reaching to the sky.
Articles
Fall for Containers
Put a bit of fall into your containers!
Containers
Best Plants of the Year Awards 2016
Originally written for another publication, but it's still a great list.
Articles
Rainy Side Gardeners stance on chem-icides
It’s time to discard old
reach-for-the-chemical habits, and look for better, more friendly-to-the-earth solutions.
Articles
Gardening for the Homebrewer: Grow and Process Plants for Making Beer, Wine, Gruit, Cider, Perry, and More
By co-authors Debbie Teashon (Rainy Side Gardeners) and Wendy Tweton