Plants for Each Season
Aimée Damman
Fall Favorites: Perennials & Annuals

Whether you’re refreshing containers, filling gaps in the garden, or planning ahead for spring, fall planting sets the stage for a beautiful year to come. The nursery is brimming with colorful fall foliage and blooms. To help you choose, our buyers have highlighted some of their top fall picks.

Fall Favorites: Perennials & Annuals
Plants for Each Season
Aimée Damman
Fall Favorites: Trees & Shrubs

To help inspire your fall planting, we asked our tree and shrub buyer to share his top favorites. Here are his picks for standout trees and shrubs that shine in fall and beyond.

Fall Favorites: Trees & Shrubs
Pruning
Dan Gilchrist
Pruning Calendar

One of the more common questions that newer gardeners might ask is, “when is the best time of year to prune __________?” This pruning calendar can help guide you to the best times to prune your garden plants. You’ll also find links to other posts with more in-depth information on how to prune, pruning specific plants and categories of plants, and pruning in individual seasons.

Pruning Calendar
Indoor Plants
Barrie Moss
Your Checklist for Fall and Winter Houseplant ...

Your houseplants will be forever grateful (and you will be too, by default) if you follow these simple guidelines that will prepare them to happily snuggle in for fall and winter. Here is a checklist of things to do (or to stop doing) to ensure the health and happiness of your houseplants in fall and winter.

Your Checklist for Fall and Winter Houseplant Care
Garden Design
Aimée Damman
Flowers for Shade Gardens

When you imagine a shade garden, do you mostly picture foliage plants and a lack of bright colors? While foliage plants are the foundation of any shade garden, there is an abundance of flowers that offer beautiful blooms in shady conditions. Here are 15 of our favorite flowers for shade.

Flowers for Shade Gardens

fall foliage

Fall Favorites: Trees & Shrubs

Fall Favorites: Trees & Shrubs

To help inspire your fall planting, we asked our tree and shrub buyer to share his top favorites. Here are his picks for standout trees and shrubs that shine in fall and beyond.

Shrubs with Beautiful Summer Flowers and Foliage

Shrubs with Beautiful Summer Flowers and Foliage

Many shrubs bloom in spring and there are lots of choices for gorgeous fall foliage but it can be harder to find the right stand-out shrub to highlight your garden in the summer months, especially if you are trying to complement colorful summer perennial or annual flowers. Here are a few of our favorites for summer flowers or interesting summer and fall foliage.

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Plants for Colorful Fall Gardens

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Plants for Colorful Fall Gardens

The fall season is incredible in the Pacific Northwest, as the green leaves of summer turn to beautiful shades of red, orange, and yellow. Autumn is a great time to plant and refresh your fading summer garden with trees, shrubs, and perennials that offer a spectacular fall show.

 
 

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