Posts Tagged ‘Seattle’
Gladiolus and Dahlias: Fun Facts and Garden History for these August Garden Superstars
“I’ll never forget what my friend Joel Karsten, the author of Straw Bale Gardening, told me about how easy it is to plant Gladiolus in conditioned straw bales. Once the flowers are done blooming in the fall, you kick the straw bale over, and all the corms fall out for easy gathering.” March 4, 1956…
Read MoreElite English Garden Designer David Stevens’ Advice to American Gardeners: Break the Garden into Rooms
“It is important, especially for North Americans with large, open backyards, to break down the garden space into a series of smaller rooms. If you see everything at once, it becomes uninteresting.” February 15, 1992 On this day, The Vancouver Sun shared a story by Steve Whysall called “Break Outdoor Spaces into Series of Small…
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