“On the road again” is the theme for a weekend nursery foray to the Emerald City.  I am teaching a seminar at Molbak’s Garden and Home in Woodinville which is just outside Seattle.  Having never visited Molbak’s I am excited about speaking  to and meeting their customers and exploring the  nursery for the first time.  Am anticipating a weekend of satiated plant lust.

Seminars, vendors and informal demonstrations are all part of Molbak’s Spring Celebration Weekend, April 10 and 11.  At 10-11 am Saturday  I’ll present Voluptuous Vignettes: The Art of Perennial Plant Combinations focusing on creating expressive, artistic and culturally … Continue Reading

Working in the garden in the pouring rain isn’t my favorite pastime but Sunday was an exception.  Friend and fellow hort head, Richie Steffen, curator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, came down to  help us build a stumpery in our back garden. So you ask –what is a stumpery? The name infers something unsavory but this garden structure is lovely, naturalistic  hold-over from the Victorian era.  Victorians crafted stumps, driftwood, logs, rotting wood and bark into artful three dimensional garden features.  Ferns, lichens, moss and woodland perennials are planted in crevices between the logs, in rotted … Continue Reading