If you're a little hazy on when exactly you should be planting bulbs for spring you're in the right place. Overall it's pretty straightforward but there is a slight variation between different types ...

Urns by the front door and window boxes don't have to sit empty, waiting for the warmer temperatures demanded by geraniums, salvias and sweet potato vines. There are plenty of cool-weather loving ...

The second week of February means the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle is wrapping up and that means the start of spring here in Western Washington. For gardeners, perhaps the best part of ...

Every March, Laurie Jekel has a spring fling designing lavish container gardens that resemble still-life set-ups for Dutch Masters oil paintings. The owner of The Last Detail, the landscape firm she ...

It's that time again - time to plant our spring containers. Most exciting of all our seasonal plantings, they deliver badly needed color even if we can't plant in the garden yet. Instead of just ...

Containers of orange pansies and red mums are among the clearest signs that autumn has arrived in the garden. But the problem with falling back on these tried-and-true annuals is they don't last more ...