If April showers bring May flowers then it ought to be a pretty colorful month.   With 30-50% above normal rainfall the season has been a slog up until now.  The last week of April was truly glorious but May is when the real work begins so read on. 

Springtime has arrived and the multitudes of Rhododendrons are blooming….. Our state flower shines in every color imaginable – but what I am here to remind you of is one old adage – flowers come and flowers go - so discover the different foliages of Rhododendrons! 

Back in my hippy-dippy days of the late 60’s and early 70’s I was a devotee of the organic gardening movement with subscriptions to Rodale’s Organic Gardening Magazinealong with Prevention and Mother Earth News.  My favorite cook book was Diet for a Small Planet and Adelle Davis’s Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit.

If you ever want to find out what is going on in the garden just drop by the local nursery and listen to the other customers talking about their gardens. Chances are that whatever your fellow gardeners are experiencing is also happening in your garden. Here are some hot topics I have heard the last couple of weeks. 

You can always tell when we are in the heat of the season because...

I have mixed feelings about it being April already.  On the one hand I can’t believe...

March is a great month to whip that old lawn into shape and for that matter the next 30 days are prime time to...

March is the consummate month to plant “cool season” veggies like potatoes and carrots and onions and radishes, leaf crops like lettuce and spinach and cabbage and broccoli and finally peas.  All of these crops demand...

Spring is an elusive season for the northwest.  Typically what happens is that winter comes and goes for what seems like months on end and then one day we wake up and it is summer.  I have heard that...

I think we can all agree that February has been a stinker of a month this year.  Cold, wet, windy and even some snow was about all we could manage this month...