These plants seem to thrive in the Western Washington climate and adapt to many different types of growing conditions.

But here are my top five plants for Northwest gardens: There are so many varieties of Japanese maples (Acer palmatum), from the grafted versions that grow out but not up, to the tall and spreading ...

Give a lilac full sun, good drainage and here’s the secret – lots of wind and you’ll have a shrub that flowers with fragrant ...

Lilacs in Western Washington can be thinned out by removing weak or crossing branches and by cutting the oldest stems or trunks close to ground level. This gives the younger side shoots a chance ...

Afterward, each guest in attendance was encouraged to take home a complimentary Japanese maple sapling in honor of the new Cottrell ... 30 gardens with 3,700 different plants and more than 700 ...

Motorized hedge shears are the most overused home garden power tools. They are very useful for hedging evergreen shrubbery into hedges and privacy screens. Tony Tomeo can be contacted at tonytomeo ...

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