• Winter Garden Idea
• Kissing under the Mistletoe
• Fireplace season is back!
• Garden Story Contest Winner !!
• The Standing Water Death
• Naturally Native – American of the Month - Mahonia nervosa
• Things to do in the Winter Garden:
• Those Heavenly Hellebores…  The Final Encore of the Gardening Year

• This winter I promise to do better.
• New Plant Spotlight…
• Garden Story Contest
• Where Is My Local Extension Office?
• Things to do in the Fall Garden:
• Naturally Native – American of the Month: Redwood Ivy - Vancouveria planipetala

• New Plant Spotlight…
• “Plants at Work”
• Summer Perennial Gardening
• Naturally Native – Americans of the Month
• Did You Know? Wild plants that you can eat: 

• Grand Re-Opening of the Garden Center!
• The Dragon / Empress / Royal Paulownia Tree
• The Story of the Bleeding Heart
• The Year of the Container Garden
• Echinacea – the not-so-common Coneflower
• Naturally Native – Americans of the Month

• DORMANT PLANT
• The Struggle of the Slime - Slugs and snails
• The Pre-emptive Prune
• ‘Red Star’ or Rhodohypoxis
• Naturally Native – Americans of the Month
  • Sitka Spruce - Picea sitchensis
  • Pacific Rhododendron - Rhododendron macrophyllum
• Brand new to the Farm!
• Things to do in the March/April Garden

• The 2006 Northwest Flower and Garden Show is coming! February 8-12, 2006
• ‘Rudolph’ Euphorbia - Euphorbia x martinii 'Rudolph'
• New mulching rules for bark, the ‘Law of Three’s’
• Pheasant Berry - Leycesteria formosa 'Golden Lanterns'

• Ajuga 'Black Scallop' - Bugleweed

• Naturally Native – Outstanding Americans of the Month
  • Serviceberry - Amelancier alnifolia
  • Common Camas - Camassia quamash

• Things to do in the Late Fall / Early Winter Garden:

• A True Winter Wonder… It’s Hellebore time!

• It’s Peony Planting Time!

• Put a ‘Naked Lady’ in your garden! - Amaryllis belladonna

• Acer circinatum ‘Little Gem’

• Hemerocallis 'Apricot Sparkles' - Daylily

• The new Cape Fuchsias – Phygelius ‘Croftway Series’

• Silver Cloak Fern - Cheilanthes argentea

• Naturally Native – Outstanding Americans of the Month

  • 'The Lantern in the Woods' - Lysichiton americanum - Skunk Cabbage

  • Partridgeberry - Mitchella repens

  • Biscuit Root - Lomatium dissectum

  • Pink Fawn Lily - Erythronium revolutum

• Some news on the Himalayan blackberry (With a wow factor of 9!)

• A Focus on Summer Foliage
• The Gas Plant - Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus'
• Powdery Mildew – The Fungus Amongus
• Naturally Native – Americans of the Month
  • Umbrella Plant - Darmera peltatum
  • Maryland Pink or Indian Pink - Spigelia marilandica
• Things to do in the Late Summer Garden;
• New! Groundcover Forsythia - Forsythia x intermedia 'Gold Tide'

• Chinese Wax Shrub  -  Sinocalycanthus chinensis
• False Red Agave  -  Beschorneria 'Ding Dong'
• Chilean Fire Bush  -  Embothrium coccineum lanceolatum
• Bear Grass  -  Xerophyllum tenax
• Sea Holly – Eryngium 
  • Eryngium amethystinum
  • Eryngium planum 'Blue Cap'
  • Eryngium alpinum
  • Eryngium a. 'Blue Star'
  • Eryngium planum 'Blue Ribbon'
  • Eryngium yuccifolium  -  Rattlesnake-Master
• Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ – Creeping Jacob's Ladder
• The Pineapple Lily  -  Eucomis
  • Eucomis comosa 'Oakhurst'
  • Eucomis comosa 'Innocence'
  • Eucomis comosa 'Toffee'
  • Eucomis zambesiaca

• A Passion for Pussy Willows!
  • Salix chaenomeloides  -  Giant Pussy Willow
  • Salix caprea 'French Pussy' 
  • Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'  -  Black Pussy Willow
• Naturally Native – Amazing American of the Month
  • Mountain Avens  -  Dryas octopetala
• Deutzia gracilis 'Chardonnay Pearls'
• The Rugosa Rose  -  Rosa Rugosa

• The Hot & Wild New Salvias
  • Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips'
  • Salvia greggii 'Wild Thing'
• Petasites palmatus ‘Golden Palms’  -  Golden Coltsfoot
• Check out our Newest Natives!
  • Myrica californica  -  California or Pacific Wax Myrtle 
  • Rosa Rugosa  -  Wild Rose
• Mallow Madness!  -  Hibiscus

• They’re here!  The Himalayan Blue Poppies
  • Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'
• 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year!  Awarded by the Perennial Plant Association
  • Dianthus g. ‘Firewitch’ (Feuerhexe) 
• Mukdenia rossii 'Crimson Fans'    -   'Crimson Mukdenia'
• Naturally Native – American of the Month
  • Taxus brevifolia  -  Pacific Yew

• Wild and Wonderful Wisteria
• Trout Lily - Erythronium americanum
• The Hardy Palms
  • Mediterranean Fan Palm - Chamaerops humilis
  • Chinese Windmill Palm - Trachycarpus fortunei
• Variegated Climbing Hydrangea - Hydrangea anomala petiolaris 'Mirranda'

• Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' 
• Heucherella 'Stoplight'   Wow - brand new for Spring 2005!  
• They’re not just for Breakfast anymore…
  • Blueberries, Huckleberries and Grapes, the ornamental edibles.
• Monster’s Ball
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Albo-Rosea', Thalictrum 'Elin', Scrophularia a. 'Variegata',
    Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Roseum', Rudbeckia maxima, Rheum 'Ace of Hearts',
    Petasites japonicus ‘Variegata', Musa basjoo, Matteuccia struthiopteris 'The King',
    Lavatera 'Bredon Springs', Hosta 'Big Daddy',  Hibiscus moscheutos 'Turn of the Century',
    Gunnera manicata, Gaura l. 'Dauphine',  Filipendula rubra 'Venusta Magnifica',
    Cynara cardunculus, Dicksonia antarctica, Crambe cordifolia, Cortaderia selloana 'Rosea',
    Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen', Angelica gigas.

• Blossoms in the Snow?
  • Mahonia x media 'Charity'
  • Witchhazels     Hamamelis    
  • Snowdrops      Galanthus
  • Daphne odora
  • Camellias       
  • Rosemary 
  • Pieris Japonica
  • Hellebore 
• You say To-MAY-toe… I say To-MAH-toe…\
  • http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/spg017.asp
• Beautyberry  -  Callicarpa bodinieri v. giraldii 'Profusion'
• The 25 easiest perennials
   

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