While it may be still and quiet in our gardens, it is anything but in the garden center this time of year. All over Puget Sound, nurseries are receiving their once-a-year deliveries of bare root roses, and diligently pruning and potting them up for you to…
The 2022 Gardening Season Has Begun - Bare Root Fruit Trees & Roses Have Arrived
It is finally time to get the new gardening season started… January is the perfect month to start shopping for roses, fruit trees, berries and grapes, along with other shrubs that are dormant this time of year. Most of these plants are sold as what is known in the nursery industry as “bare root”. Let me take a moment to explain…
Apologies, but I have some pertinent news to pass along that might be an unpleasant reminder to all local gardeners… Yes the rumors are true, we are about to say goodbye to our PNW summer. Goodbye to…