Dear Blog Friends, I will be taking a few weeks off from the Gardening Matters Tillamook blog. It is with a broken heart I announce the...

Our fourteen-year-old granddaughter Daisy’s favorite holiday – even above Christmas and her birthday – is Halloween. She loves getting...

It is no doubt a good thing we live tucked away in Barview and have few permanent neighbors. Most of the homes surrounding us are weekend...

As much as I hate to admit it, autumn is here and it’s time to clean up our gardens for the winter. I was reminded recently that I have...

When we were traveling in England many years ago, we stayed at a bed and breakfast in Cheddar. The owners were delightful and the...

I must admit that the growing season of 2023 wasn’t a good one for me keeping up my gardening journal. Don’t get me wrong. It was a good...

Since we had such a late summer, I was hoping against hope that we would have a late fall as well. I should know that Mother Nature rules...

When I started thinking about native plant and how they fit into our gardens, I couldn’t decide between three. And since they all were...

Hard to believe Labor Day has come and gone and children are back in school already. this week. It has been one of the nicest summers I...

There is a fine line between garden art and garden litter. I can’t really quantify the difference because it is different for everyone. I...

It is not unusual for me to get some sort of gardening catalog all through the year. I must be on someone’s master list as I get things...

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...

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...

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...

Not many experienced gardeners will dispute the statement that July and August are not the best times to plant our plants in the garden....

Rosa 'Munstead Wood' Before I left Pennsylvania over 22 years ago, I had a very nicely established rose garden with about a dozen...

Most gardening books, articles or magazines that talk about garden design will start with discussing “the bones" of the garden. By this...

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...

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...

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...