How to Start a Garden and Build It Out with Raised Beds
If you’ve got space in the backyard, consider starting off with a raised garden bed. These sit atop your backyard dirt or grass and must be filled with soil. This allows you to better control what ...
Stanwood’s ‘Sweet Pea Queen’ shares her floral passion and pro tips
"Sweet Pea Queen" Marryn Mathis, the owner of The Farmhouse Flower Farm, has written a beautiful new book to share her ...
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Growing a pollinator garden in Marin
Most pollinators work under our radar and are easily overlooked when a garden receives the admiring human gaze. A closer look into the flower of a plant in bloom may reveal a small invertebrate ...
Easiest to grow and showiest in the landscape? These roses might surprise you.
Belinda’s Dream is the first variety to consider. It grows to 6 feet tall with light pink blooms that qualify as being floral ...
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Plant diversity in the British Virgin Islands, linking the past with the present
In the early 1900s, Walter Charles Fishlock, a Kew gardener, embarked on a remarkable journey across the Atlantic to the ...
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How you can plant a vegetable garden each year without digging up the soil
These fruit are produced throughout the year but due to the tree’s sensitivity to frost, it should not be planted north of the San Fernando Valley. It is available through a number of vendors, ...
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Donna Frawley: The difference between herbs and spices
We had a customer at the Farmers’ Market that called us Spice Girls which is more fun than calling us Herb girls. We do carry spices, but we specialize in herbs. Why do we call them spice racks if ...
Good as gold: why spurges are perfect for coastal gardens
The euphorbias generally known as spurges, such as Euphorbia characias and its cultivars, are renowned for their ability to ...