“We don’t live in Southern California,” points out landscape designer Lynn Wolfstone. Portland summers are beautiful, but let’s be realistic. “Chances are we are going to look at our garden more than we will be in our garden.” Lynn was born and raised in Portland, so she knows whereof she speaks. “I always ask a…
For the food gardener, winter ends in February. While it’ll be months yet – long, cold, soggy months – before tender annuals such as tomatoes, peppers and squash can go into the ground, now’s the time to plant perennial fruiting plants such as grapes, raspberries and strawberries. Shrubs, too, can be planted in the Northwest…
If you’ve ever planted a cute little fir, pine or spruce in your yard only to pay hundreds of dollars a decade later to have a 40-foot monster cut down and removed, you may be leery of being fooled again. But, believe me, with the exciting array of dwarf and miniature conifers now available, pumping…
