The Pacific Northwest edition of Sunset magazine has a special “Inside Seattle” section in their September 2007 issue. Within this section, writer Jenny Cunningham details her first person experience working with her garden mentor or garden coach – that would be me. Photographer John Granen illustrated our adventures through his beautiful photography.
Obviously, this is terrific press […]

Crisp cool mornings & bright sunshine
Dewy profusions of sparkling spider webs 
Wafts of burnt sugar on Katsura breezes
Rattling dry leaves across the patio
Chrysanthemum buds swelling & ready
Acer rubrum a patchwork of red amid summer green
Shotweed emerging; Fireweed dispersing
Miscanthus tall & glistening in waning light
Autumn joy sedum tinging pink from green
Tomatoes heavy & red on the vine

This year I got a reminder that we never exactly know what we’re going to get when we put a seed in the ground. As a professional horticulturist, I run into many people who share stories of collecting seeds from favorite plants they’ve grown in their gardens or just encountered in their daily journey through […]

My solution this time of year? Invite my Mom to visit!
As a gardening professional, I’m finding less and less time to get my own gardening done during the “high season”, which would be summer — now! I’m so busy helping others with their gardens that I rarely have time to get out and work in […]

We’ve done many different designs in our front garden. First we tore out tired old lawn & junipers. Then we busted out a useless, narrow concrete path & remade the aggregate chunks into a patio space. Quickly, we learned this “patio” was 1) not installed properly (by us) so it didn’t work out in the long run […]