Summertime and the Livin' is Easy...
Mid-August and the livin’ should be easy now. These are the days to enjoy our labors of spring and summer. Not to say there aren’t things...
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gardeningmattersti
Aug 9, 20233 min read
Plants I can't Grow
About this time in the summer of every year I find myself reflecting on the plants that have done well in the garden. It is by no means...
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gardeningmattersti
Aug 2, 20233 min read
An Open Letter to Gertrude Jekyll...
Dear Miss Jekyll, Although we live an ocean and a continent away, not to mention a century of time apart, I felt I must write and tell...
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gardeningmattersti
Jul 26, 20233 min read
Moving in July?
Not many experienced gardeners will dispute the statement that July and August are not the best times to plant our plants in the garden....
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gardeningmattersti
Jul 19, 20234 min read
A Rose by Any Other Name...
Rosa 'Munstead Wood' Before I left Pennsylvania over 22 years ago, I had a very nicely established rose garden with about a dozen...
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gardeningmattersti
Jul 12, 20234 min read
Bones of the Garden
Most gardening books, articles or magazines that talk about garden design will start with discussing “the bones" of the garden. By this...
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gardeningmattersti
Jul 5, 20233 min read
Perfect Timing
I was visiting in the garden with a dear friend I hadn't seen in a while. She is brand new to gardening and moved into a new-to-her...
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gardeningmattersti
Jun 28, 20233 min read
Oregon Grape for the Garden
I was trying to decide on a native plant I should feature this June. My first thought was salal because it gets tiny little flowers this...
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gardeningmattersti
Jun 21, 20233 min read
The English Garden magazine
Every so often I allow myself the splurge of buying an English gardening magazine. They can be quite expensive at between $7 and $9 per...
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gardeningmattersti
Jun 14, 20233 min read
Picking on Weeds
I am beginning to realize that weeding is a lot like cleaning one’s house. It’s really only noticed when it isn’t done. No one visiting...
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gardeningmattersti
Jun 6, 20234 min read
Cleaning the Garden
Here we are at the beginning of summer already. I am not sure just where spring went, but May was nicer than I remember having for quite...
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gardeningmattersti
May 31, 20234 min read
For the Birds
There were two dozen – yes, really – goldfinches at my bird feeder the other afternoon, about a third of which were females and the rest...
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gardeningmattersti
May 24, 20234 min read
Slugs? Again? Always!
It seems like slug information never gets old and everyone looks for a new way of controlling slugs and snails in our gardens. I know I...
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gardeningmattersti
May 17, 20233 min read
Scotch Broom Time!
Allow me to humbly admit than when we first moved to Tillamook County over twenty years ago, I, too, was taken with the beauty of this...
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gardeningmattersti
May 11, 20233 min read
In A Bind
There are some things that can take the pleasure out of gardening, hard as that may seem to realize. Slugs, for one. Early one morning...
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gardeningmattersti
May 8, 20233 min read
Warming Up?
I am going to have to start taking my own advice. For years I have written a column each spring about the necessity of gently warming up...
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gardeningmattersti
May 1, 20232 min read
Veggies Front and Center
In many of the gardening magazines I have read lately there seems to be a trend to plant vegetables with perennial flowers. I had first...
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gardeningmattersti
Apr 24, 20234 min read
Plant Shopping Time!
It’s that time of year again when we start to think about buying plants for our gardens. Some of us will need just a few things to fill...
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gardeningmattersti
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Citizen Science
At a talk at the Garibaldi Library in late March, I was asked about a certain chapter in my new book "Four Seasons in the Pacific...
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gardeningmattersti
Apr 10, 20233 min read
Will Spring ever come?
The old wives’ adage “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” was certainly not the case this year. March came in like a...
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