Garden Variety

How Your Yard Can Protect Puget Sound

Rain gardens can help curb a major source of pollution in the Salish Sea.

12/13/2021 By Benjamin Cassidy

Habitat

How to Start an Urban Vegetable Garden

A guide to getting the freshest produce in the city—right from your yard.

03/26/2019 By Stefan Milne

Plant People

Glasswing Just Opened a Lush Greenhouse on Capitol Hill. And It's Beautiful.

Hello, we have this thing for plant lovers: The doors are open and this time, it’s all things green.

01/10/2019 By Elizabeth Podlesnik

Habitat

3 Backyard Hideaways

Stylish garden sheds give new meaning to living well outdoors.

06/02/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

Garden City

3 Seattle Gardens That Feed the City

05/01/2014 By Genie Leslie

Slideshow

Slide Show: 21 Expert Tips for Seattle Gardeners

Local plant and landscape experts share their green-thumb and design secrets.

05/01/2014

Garden City

Expert Tips for Seattle Gardeners

21 local plant and landscape experts share their green-thumb and design secrets.

05/01/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

Garden City

The Botany of Urban Desire

Sarah Bergmann's Pollinator Pathway combines art, ecology, and urban planning. Just don't call it a bee thing.

05/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

Garden City

My Life in the P-Patch

How to get started in a community garden.

04/28/2014 By Erica C. Barnett

Slideshow

Slide Show: 10 Essential Garden Tools

Our favorite green-thumb gear

04/18/2014

Garden City

10 Secret Seattle Gardens

Seattle's 10 most stunning gardens...that you probably don't even know about!

04/18/2014 By Ezra Parter

Slideshow

Slide Show: 10 Secret Seattle Gardens

Seattle's 10 most stunning gardens...that you probably don't even know about!

04/18/2014

Back Fence

Hive Minded

What backyard beekeeping really does for people.

04/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

Inside Washington Park Arboretum’s New Zealand Focal Forest

The brand new exhibit boasts 10,000 individual plants that originated in the kiwi nation.

09/03/2013 By Karen Taylor Quinn

Article

Gardening Must-Haves

Our favorite local goodies, gear, and gadgets.

03/20/2013 By Amanda Zurita

Article

New Landscaping Gives a Sand Point Home Curb Appeal

Landscape designer Scot Eckley transforms an underused side yard into a functional oasis.

05/18/2012 By Giselle Smith

Article

The Memory Rose

I inherited a plant, but not my mother’s garden intuition.

05/18/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

Trade Secrets: Make Houseplants Thrive

Three tips from Cindy Krepk. She and her husband own and operate Dog Mountain Farm and the School of the Lost Arts on a 20-acre spread in Carnation.

05/20/2011 By Clancey Denis

Article

Farm Your Backyard

It’s a little known fact that almost everything you plant in April can also be planted as late as July. With a few quick preparations, you can be on your way to backyard bounty by early fall. Amy Pennington, owner of Go Go Green Garden, and Colin McCrate

06/14/2010 By Judy Naegeli

Slideshow

Slide Show: Dream Small

A garden shed can house whatever your heart desires, but a good building plan keeps things real.

01/22/2010