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…
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Planting Edmonds: Gardening and forest bathing — how immersion in nature can improve your health
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: Edmonds gardeners, do you know where your plants come from?
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: Edmonds Ivy League the devoted caretakers of Southwest County Park
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column by and for local gardeners. Southwest County Park, which straddles Olympic View Avenue, is an amazing 118-acre forest within the Edmonds city limits. From…
Planting Edmonds: Evergreens — from landscape to holiday décor
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Evergreens are so rewarding to grow in the landscape. They provide structure, texture and all-season interest outdoors, but…
Planting Edmonds: Gardening — It’s about time
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Fall is here! We can tell. The temperatures have dropped, the rains have begun, days are getting shorter,…
Planting Edmonds: Share your bounty?
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: The crew that keeps Edmonds blooming
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: Rabbits!
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: The dirt on garden soil
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…
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Planting Edmonds: Ready to give up your lawn?
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: Bring back the awe in nature
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: Lichen in the garden
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…
Planting Edmonds: Wonders of a winter garden
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. Recently, on a rare dry and sunny January day, I ventured out to my garden to see what…
Planting Edmonds: Indoor landscaping
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. Hello, fellow plant peeps. I am here to talk about my favorite subject: Plants! I have been…
Planting Edmonds: Gardening tips for growing healthy orcas
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. So, you want to grow orcas in your garden? Who doesn’t! I grew my first orca this…
Planting Edmonds: Backyards are for the birds
Planting Edmonds’ is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. Birds deepen the pleasure we take in our gardens, captivating us with their plumage, songs and antics….
Planting Edmonds: Gardens for aging in place
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. You are not getting any younger. Aging happens. Even gardeners age! At some point you are going…
Planting Edmonds: Meet Aplo, a mountain beaver
Planting Edmonds’ is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. Greetings! This is Rachel the Roving Reporter. Today for all you gardeners and curious mammal spotters I…
Planting Edmonds: Puddles to ponds
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. “Puddles to Ponds” is all about how to support wildlife by getting water into your yard. This…
Planting Edmonds: Weeds
Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. Garden weeds are my bugaboo. Let’s dive in, Edmonds, because you have more of these than I’d…
Planting Edmonds: How to make a meadow
Planting Edmonds’ is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. For years, I dreamed of growing a meadow – an open space filled with a naturalistic, rambling…
Planting Edmonds: The amazing dahlia
‘Planting Edmonds’ is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. I love dahlias. It is truly amazing how a tiny tuber can grow into a huge plant…
Planting Edmonds: Native plants suitable for your garden
‘Planting Edmonds’ is a monthly column written by members of Edmonds Floretum Garden Club. The city of Edmonds began as a shingle mill town on the edge of Puget Sound…