If your garden is anything like mine, then you are probably busy watering, staking, checking for bugs and diseases, harvesting veggies and fruits and bouquets of flowers, and planting - at least those are the things that we all should be doing in August if we want to call ourselves gardeners. I don’t think anyone ever manages to accomplish all the gardening chores they set out to do, but we should at least give it the old college try. Just for fun, here are some of the things I have been doing in my garden…


With the onset of summer in the PNW, the perfect time to talk about the many kinds of Hydrangeas we can cultivate is upon us! When it comes down to summer bloomers, nothing in the world of shrubs can beat…