Hedge

Design
Evergreen Hedging Plants for the Northwest

Winter in the Northwest is a great time to appreciate the wonderful job broadleaf evergreen plants do in our gardens. They create structure in designs and act as windbreaks and…
Design
A Garden That’s Younger Than It Looks

They never weeded a bed or planted a seed, but our four teenagers were heartbroken to leave the big garden of their childhood. Why couldn’t we wait 10 years? Where…
Design
Adapting English Elegance

It took about five years and two road trips through England before Anne Campodonico was ready to start her garden. True, the Kentfield, California, mother of three wasn’t in a…
Design
Where Formal and Natural Meet

Everyone has been to a house that has a “do-not-touch” room in it. It might be a living room with plastic covers on the couches or a dining room with…
Article
Designing an Intimate Space

Many people like to have a garden for entertaining, but most of us also want our gardens to be a spot where we relax and get away from it all.…
How-To
How to Trim a Formal Hedge

For straight sides and a flat top, use stakes and string as a guide
Plant Guide
‘Velvet Cloak’ smoke tree
Cotinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak'
This shrub or small tree has stunning deep purple foliage that turns orange-red in autumn.
Plant Guide
‘Sensation’ lilac
Syringa vulgaris ‘Sensation’
In midseason this unique cultivar bears slightly fragrant, single purple blossoms with distinct white margins.
Plant Guide
‘Prostrata’ plum yew
Cephalotaxus harringtonii ‘Prostrata’
This slow-growing dwarf conifer has a wide, rounded crown and narrowly furrowed, partially peeling bark.
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Rosa 'HARpageant' 'Easy Does It'™
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