Rainy Side Gardeners
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What's New!
Exciting New Plants from 2019
2020 — a new decade and an exciting time with a new season’s plant hunt.
Articles
The Stories Aquilegias Could Tell
The genus Aquilegia (columbine) has been cultivated and beloved by gardeners for centuries.
Articles
Coleus, Coleus
A two-coleus container takeover.
Containers
The Many Faces of Bark
What’s left in winter is their proverbial bones reaching to the sky.
Articles
Fall for Containers
Put a bit of fall into your containers!
Containers
Best Plants of the Year Awards 2016
Originally written for another publication, but it's still a great list for 2019.
Articles
Rainy Side Gardeners stance on chem-icides
It’s time to discard old
reach-for-the-chemical habits, and look for better, more friendly-to-the-earth solutions.
Articles
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Rainy Side Gardeners
January's flowers
Chimonanthus praecox var. luteus — Wintersweet
Chimonanthus praecox var. luteus churns out the most delectable fragrance and a little color to the winter garden.
Archives
Tis the growing season
I dream of the green days of spring and Kermit the frog singing ". . . green is the color of spring, and green can be cool and friendly-like, and green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree." There are plenty of garden catalogs to support that sentiment...
Featured Plant
Polystichum munitum — Western sword fern
We often take it for granted because it is so common, yet a stand of sword ferns along woodland's edge is a beautiful sight. It is one of the largest polystichums in cultivation.
Blogging on the Rainy Side
Journal - Holman Vista Trail
This is a rare day to cherish, as I walk the easy Holman Vista trail in near silence.
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Rainy Side Gardeners Northwest
Pacific Northwest Native Plants
Container Gardening Northwest
Gardening for the Homebrewer: Grow and Process Plants for Making Beer, Wine, Gruit, Cider, Perry, and More
By co-authors Debbie Teashon (Rainy Side Gardeners) and Wendy Tweton