Ephemerals are unusual plants that love early spring weather: cool and a bit wet. They bring color and otherworldly flowers to shadier corners. They tend to hug the ground plane, avoiding the cold, ...

Low-growing groundcovers that thrive in the conditions that once grew grass include pachysandra and ajuga for the shade and cranesbill geranium or sedums for the sun. The trick is to dig and ...

IT’S SPRING, WHICH means it’s time for the next installment of Seattle Grows, a seasonal garden party game (that I made up).

In Pacific Northwest gardening time, spring arrives with the ... including evergreen shade-loving shrubs such as fatsia japonica “Spider’s Web” that became a focal point for several of ...

If you have shade, you have a lawn that struggles. Large cedar and fir trees in your landscape also interfere with a healthy lawn. But the iconic sword ferns of the Northwest thrive in the dry ...