Gardening week ahead: Create a wild flower meadow

Now is a good time to begin creating a wild flower area. Many wild flower seeds need a winter before they can germinate, so autumn is the ideal time to sow.

Gardening: Will the real perennials stand up?

Now is a good time of year to think "perennial": which plants really are, and which ones could be.The word perennial, among gardeners, usually refers to an herbaceous (non-woody) flowering plant ? that is, one whose roots live year after year but whose top dies down to the ground each winter.That...

Volunteers sought for park garden

Join your neighbors and students of environmentally sound gardening to help transform 2,500 square feet of High School Park in Elkins Park into a native plant demonstration garden of native grasses, plants and wildflowers.

Gardeners' Dirt: Fall Plant Sale will offer more than 2,000 plants

While there will be more than 2,000 - yes, 2,000 - plants to browse through at the Victoria County Master Gardener plant sale this Saturday, here are a few that will catch your eye. With this opportunity in mind and the long hot summer behind us, this could be your chance to paint your yard with some beautiful color and plants of interest - at a very reasonable cost.

Olympia family gets neighbors, community interested in growing food

It all started with an unused driveway. Sixteen years ago, an Olympia couple bought a home on a corner lot on the city's east side. After ripping up that redundant driveway, they installed a small vegetable patch.