Feb 7
The Northwest Flower and Garden show is coming! February 23rd thru 27th, Wednesday thru Sunday.
Despite its popularity, I believe the garden show tends to attract the same Read more
Below is the first column I wrote for MyEdmondsNews.com. I thought I’d repeat it here because readership doesn’t necessarily overlap with my blog and I’ve never really written about myself on this blog. Look for my next article coming out this Wednesday the 2nd about the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Hope you like it. Read more
Great news! I will be writing a column for our city online newspaper, MyEdmondsNews.com. The first column appears this Wednesday the 26th and will appear monthly thereafter. I might submit articles more often if I have something to write about. For example, the upcoming NW Flower and Garden Show.
The first article will be more of an introduction as this is the first time I’ll be writing for another publisher. I’ll have to feel my way a bit to see what people are interested in reading. In fact, I’m taking suggestions right now. So if you have a topic to suggest or a question, let’s hear it!
Send your suggestions or questions to me!
james@bluewheelbarrow.biz
We pulled a dead Daphne from the ground this spring, planted a year and a half prior. Like detectives on the trail of a mysterious plant killer, we pulled the plant from the crime scene and sent it off to the lab. The lab was a couple feet away where the garden hose was. We washed off the dirt expecting to convict some sort of root rot as the perpetrator. They like to knock off Daphnes now and again, everyone knows this. Presumably for Read more
We had the opportunity to order plants from Digging Dog Nursery from Albion, CA. Which to be honest, I don’t know exactly where that is. I mean I can look up on a map and see it is about 40% of the way between San Francisco and the Oregon border and on the ocean. So it seems like their climate isn’t hellishly different than our mild weather we get here in the Seattle area. I’ve driven down good old highway 101 thru CA, so I must have passed thru there at some point. It seems a little strange to buy plants from Read more
The big lesson about surveying is: Don’t build anything on land that is in dispute. If you’re wrong you could be taking down what was just built, at your own expense. Plus it is just the right thing to do – stay on your own property and respect your neighbor’s, as you would have them do to your property.
It is so common when we do a property line fence that Read more
Get a plan or plan on failing.
In landscaping and life in general, there are certainly many, many more ways to screw things up than there are ways of doing things right. And doing things really well is even more rare and difficult.
It’s like building a house. Most people recognize that design and planning are necessary parts of building a house. This is not just to meet code. Imagine spending thousands of dollars on a kitchen remodel only to find Read more
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