Step into any major gardening retailer, and you'll find shelves lined with hundreds of seed packets labeled as "wildflowers ... not natives. One 'Pacific Northwest' mix I saw recently had a lot of ...

A dahlia expert from The Farmhouse Flower Farm in Stanwood shares pro tips for getting your bountiful tubers through the ...

Bulbs like daffodils, tulips and crocus adore the Pacific Northwest’s climate — the Skagit Valley alone grows roughly 1000 ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

To keep your garden colorful from spring to summer, select a mix of annual and perennial wildflower seeds with staggered germination times. While annuals bloom quickly and perform well in the ...

A beautiful alternative to a traditional flower border, wildflower seed mixes promise a display of blooms that pollinators will love. But how attractive are they really and how much effort do they ...

The Pacific treefrog is barely 2 inches long, but its croak can carry over a long distance. It lives in moist areas of ...

If your soil is rich then you may need to remove the top 3-6 inches of top soil to ensure that the conditions are right for growing wildflowers. The best time to sow seeds and start creating your ...

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This helps ensure the growing medium isn't too rich for the wildflowers, which prefer nutrient-poorer soil. Fill the pot with your soil/compost mixture, to roughly within 2.5 centimetres of the top.

The first time Boise, Idaho, hit my radar, I was on a ski trip in Sun Valley in 2022. “Have you been there?” asked newly acquired friends on the lifts. “It’s getting cool,” one local ...