Summer is the perfect time to refresh your container gardens with vibrant new plants! With an abundance of colorful blooms, lush foliage, and heat-loving plant varieties to choose from, the...
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How to Design a Shade Garden in the Pacific Northwest
In areas like the Pacific Northwest that are blessed with an abundance of trees, one of the biggest challenges for gardeners is shade. While a lack of sunlight presents unique obstacles, a proper...
The Best Summer Flowers: Design & Care Tips for Endless Blooms
Summertime is all about MORE! More heat, more fun, and more flowers. Summer brings blooms in abundance, when warm weather and longer days cue a host of plants to put on a beautiful floral display....
Water-Wise Gardening: How to Design a Drought-Tolerant Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Creating a beautiful, low-water landscape is easier than you think! With increasingly hot weather becoming a consistent feature of Pacific Northwest Summers, there’s never been a better time to...
Designer Tips for Creating a Tropical Container Garden
Tropical landscapes and container gardens use big, bold foliage and dramatic flowers to create lush, immersive experiences and add excitement to any outdoor living area. For gardeners in the Pacific...
7 Ways to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden (with Design-Forward Tips)
Pollinators provide so many benefits to the landscape and help make our gardens more productive and meaningful! Whether you’re integrating more pollinator plants into your existing landscape or...
How to Garden With Native Plants: A Pacific Northwest Guide
Native plants offer a practical advantage for Pacific Northwest gardeners—because they're already adapted to our climate, many require less water and upkeep once established than ornamental...
How to Design the Perfect Cut Flower Garden (The Ultimate Guide)
Flowers are the beating heart of the garden, bringing beauty, color, and changeability to our growing spaces. Flowers lift our spirits and brighten our day, and their gifts can work double time when...
Spring Container Garden Design Ideas for the Pacific Northwest
Container gardens provide the perfect opportunity to showcase all of the splendor of Spring! Each year, we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Spring and all of the flowers and color that it brings....
2026 Rose Trends: The Best Ways to Use Roses in Your Garden This Year
Every year we delight in selecting Roses that will excite our tried-and-true Rose lovers and entice skeptics to try their hand at these incredibly versatile and (secretly) easy-to-grow shrubs! There...
7 Gardening Trends for 2026
Each new year invites opportunity for reinvention, and the world of gardening is no different. January may be a quiet month outside, but it’s the perfect time to dream and scheme about changes you’d...
How to Design Fall Container Gardens
As Summer annuals begin to wane and seasonal container plantings lose their luster, it’s time for a change! Fall container plantings help herald the slower, cooler season by adding warm, inviting...












