Congratulations! You have flowers! Thanks to your diligence, your home garden blossoms for bees from late winter through late fall. Oregon grape, maples, snowdrops, rock cress, pieris, last year’s kale (allowed to "go to seed"), Pacific hawthorn, cherry, apple, rhododendrons, enkianthus, raspberries, blueberries, snowberry, honeysuckle, ninebark, poppies, borage, hardhack, sedums, goldenrod, … [Read more...] about So you have flowers, now you need habitat
Garden Essentials
Who’s cold hardy?
Our Whatcom County big freeze of January 2024 was tough on landscape and garden plants. An atmospheric river first drenched the soils. Temperatures were almost balmy, and many plants (and gardeners) let down their guard. Next came very cold temperatures and even colder winds. The upper layer of soil froze, followed by more wind and snow. Tender evergreen shrubs like California lilac and … [Read more...] about Who’s cold hardy?