A dormant perennial garden in the Seattle area.  This was one of the most enjoyable projects, planting over 300 plants. It was truly a beautiful garden.  Currently, they have divided the property and built a house on top of the […]

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Provided is the list of plants to support a drought tolerant environment. These plants were planted in the spring and required frequent watering until I felt the roots were well established. After all my hard work, the first winter provided […]

A perennial border is somewhat of a heavy maintenance project. When I started this project, the soil condition was very poor. It consisted of heavy clays and traditional tractor squish em hardpan. Even today when it rains cats and dogs […]

  The Mediterranean garden is a nice garden which receives the afternoon sun. The soil hear was also very heavy in clay. I lost a lot of plants my first winter due to poor drainage. To resolve this problem, I […]

As you well know, the world can communicate and share each others interests as simply as turning on the computer and viewing the feast of information on the WWW. Of course, my current hobby is gardening (family first) which started […]

The shade garden is very small and of course has a “drainage” problem. I added a drainage pipe at the base of each side of the shade garden to displace the winter rains. During a heavy downpoor of rain, it […]

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