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    Design

    Five Years in a New Garden and Climate

    Joan Galloway is sharing the most recent phase of her gardening life with us today. I gardened for 30 years in British Columbia’s Pacific Northwest region near Vancouver. It is…

  • Front window box with lots of different foliage plants
    Design

    Melina’s Seattle Area Garden

    My name is Melina. Welcome to my Zone 8a garden in the Seattle area. It has been a few years since I have shared photos of my garden with you…

  • plants for small spaces
    Design

    4 Great Plants for Small Spaces in the Pacific Northwest

    I’ve been asked many times, “What’s a great plant for a small space?” As land becomes more expensive and first-time home buyers are starting out, there are lots of properties…

  • garden path cutting through lush shade plantings
    Design

    Garden Tour with Cherry

    Today, frequent GPOD contributor Cherry Ong is taking us along on a garden tour she was able to go on in June. The tour was part of a four-day plant-study…

  • Snowcone® Japanese snowbell
    Design

    Pollinator Plants for the Northwest

    Whether you have the space to create an expansive, pollinator-friendly landscape or just enough room to pot up a couple plants that are pollinator favorites, we can all do our…

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    How-To

    European Earwigs: How to ID Them, Spot Their Damage, and Protect Your Garden

    Summer is here! Vegetable gardens have yielded the first tomatoes of the season, perennial borders are overflowing with colorful blooms, fruit is ripening in the orchards, and rose bushes are…

  • bee on a pink dahlia
    Design

    7 Simple Ways to Help Pollinators

    We gardeners are becoming more aware of our changing world, not just the climate but also the habitat reduction for pollinators. Landscape designers are becoming more aware and responding by…

  • Golden Baby® Dwarf Goldenrod
    Design

    Peak-Season Perennials for the Northwest

    While we would all ideally have gardens that look at their peak in every season, the reality is often far from that ideal. Very few of us have all the…

  • Wish-list plants
    Design

    Wish-List Plants for the Northwest and Beyond

    I know that I’m not the only gardener and designer with a wish list of plants. But I also have an ongoing list of “holy grail” plants that I’m on…

  • pink white and purple lewisia growing up a stone retaining wall
    Design

    GPOD on the Road: Government House Gardens

    Cherry Ong has visited the beautiful gardens at Government House in Victoria, British Columbia, which is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of British Columbia. More to our interests,…