Now that I live in a forest, I am exploring more shady character plants. I love growing Selaginella kraussiana ‘Aurea,’ an exuberant......
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I decided to display the blue face container on a large tree Douglas fir trunk beside my stairs....
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I live in the shadow of a forest filled with mostly towering Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). It’s a challenge for a garden.......
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Why is this beautiful six-inch high Umbilicus oppositifolium (pronounced um-BIL-ih-kus op-po-sit-ee-FOH-lee-um) not better known? The spoon-shaped, succulent, evergreen leaves look great year-round.......
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For a shrub that looks like it belongs in the tropics, Fatsias are surprisingly hardy in our region....
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Not with this one! Rhododendrons are so commonly grown here in the Pacific Northwest that sometimes we take a ho-hum attitude —......
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