Planting Edmonds

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column by and for local gardeners. Have you ever wondered how to create a garden that engages all your senses and brings the outdoors to…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. The old English ballad Scarborough Fair famously romanticizes the herbs parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, common plants that…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column by and for local gardeners I love evergreens. They are magical outdoors, especially in the dark rainy weather. Indoors they are beautiful, fragrant and…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. “The best gardeners have killed the most plants,” jokes Edmonds College horticulture student Juniper Smith. “The plants know…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column by and for local gardeners.  The fall rains have arrived. A cold darkness is relentlessly squeezing the last wisps of summer from our world,…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Kubota Garden has a free stone sculpture walk this Saturday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Edmonds is rightfully proud of its many public parks and gardens, but the city has one gigantic garden…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Local Edmonds social media recently indicates that wildlife sightings are on the rise. Maybe not lions and tigers,…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners – of all ages. There is a preschool behind my house, aptly called “Bloom.” This tale starts with…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. One of Edmonds’ best-kept secrets is the Native Plant Demonstration Garden next to the Willow Creek Hatchery on…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. As this winter began to loosen its cold and clammy grip, I ventured into my garden to behold…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column by and for local gardeners. Thanks to Carol Murray, President of Edmonds in Bloom for sharing this article by Debra Dill from the EiB…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Do you have a stack of plant tags on your garden bench? Do you remember where the individual…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for gardeners. What Edmonds gardeners know instinctively — that gardening is healthy — has its basis in science. When I first…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. This beautiful, lush Cryptomeria came home with me in my little Toyota Corolla from a plant sale five…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Zucchini fritters, zucchini bread, grilled, stuffed or fricasseed zucchini, or as the joke goes, zucchini stealthily left on…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Edmonds gardeners are so spoiled. Everything grows in this mild marine climate with very little effort. I marvel…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Hello, I’m Rachel the Roving Reporter, back again and with a friend. I am interviewing Sylvie the Rabbit…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. “Essentially, all life depends upon the soil … There can be no life without soil and no soil…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. As warmer days and clearer skies arrive at last, many of us are itching to get outside. The…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. “Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to sustain…

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Like me, you may be eagerly noticing fresh green poking through what we might hope is the last…