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Backyard Landscaping: As Good as it Gets Spring 2013 by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening After dividing and transplanting perennials like crazy and spreading fifteen cubic yards of bark, the backyard is about as good as it's going to get this spring. Here ... Read on »

Shrubs for Winter Interest in Zone 5 by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Spokane has such long winters that evergreens and other interesting winter elements are an especially important part of good landscape design. I started my backyard d ... Read on »

Soil-Hauling and Shrub-Planting Weekend by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening If you want a nice landscape, it helps to marry Superman. Last weekend - in less than twenty hours - my husband hauled twenty cubic yards of soil from the pile in the ... Read on »

Backyard Landscaping Days 4-7: Encircling Flagstone Path, Etc. by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening After a second week of work by the landscaping company, progress has been made. Much of it involved sprinklers and is hard to see, though I am very happy about the im ... Read on »

Backyard Landscaping Days 2 and 3: Bye Bye Lawn by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening On the second day of our big landscaping project much of the lawn disappeared. Progress on the aspen root barrier halted while they waited for the Plexiglas to arri ... Read on »

Backyard Landscaping Day 1: Quaking Aspen Root Barrier by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening The landscaping crew started work on our backyard project today. I've been excited about this project for months, but I began the day feeling seriously stressed after ... Read on »

Heuchera 'Peach Flambe' and Dividing 'Lime Rickey' by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I brought home a 'Peach Flambe' heuchera from the nursery this week and took some photos of the fiery leaves in the evening light. Their shades of red and orange are ... Read on »

Tete A Tete and Landscaping Project Reality Check by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Drifts of 'Tete a Tete' mini daffodils are blooming right now in my front yard along with some blue Chionodoxa forbesii. The red stems of 'Coral Charm' peonies are ge ... Read on »

Spring is Here - Backlit Bulbs by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening We've been enjoying some warmer weather lately and it truly feels like spring. After several rounds of small bulb planting over the past few years, there are lots of ... Read on »

Bits of Spring Color by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening There is color in the garden, but you have to look closely to see it. This is the season of taking photos while crouching low, kneeling on squishy lawn, getting mud o ... Read on »

March Bloomsday in VW Garden by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I'm not usually organized enough to participate in Carol's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day , but I pulled it together this month. Several hellebores are blooming right now ... Read on »

Scrapgardening or Gardenbooking or Something by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening While planning color schemes for the different garden areas in my backyard, I gave in to my occasional need to cut and paste - well, use sticky tabs - like my kids do ... Read on »

Finally Landscaping the Backyard! by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening When we bought our Spokane Valley home in 2007, the landscaping consisted of half-dead lawn, a few boring shrubs in weedy beds, and one crispy dogwood tree. We landsc ... Read on »

Finally Some Flowers to Photograph by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening The hellebores in my garden are warming up for their best show ever. 'Pink Tea Cup' (first four photos) started blooming a month ago, in the middle of January. ... Read on »

Last Year's Flowers and This Year's Plans by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I'm illustrating this post with photos from last year's garden. Above is Veronica 'Purplelicious.' There are actually a few flowers starting to bloom right now in my ... Read on »

A New Window to the Garden by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Forgive me for straying off the topic of gardening, but I'm been directing my creative energies inside lately. Recently we added a new window to our living room. Lea ... Read on »

Icy Daggers in the Garden by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening We had some interesting frost formations outside the other day. They looked more dangerous than delicate - like thorns or daggers or something nasty to touch. The ... Read on »

Better Annual Flower Designing by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening During my first year of designing with thousands of annuals for the gardens at the Spokane LDS Temple, I learned a few things about planning annual flower beds. Here ... Read on »

Fall Pansies and Kale by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Here are a few photos of the fall annual plantings at the Spokane LDS Temple. Our director, Marilyn, put them together and I think the soft orange, warm plum and fr ... Read on »

Fall Planting for Spring Surprises by VW Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Fall planting in my garden is finally finished after getting several hundred bulbs and a few bareroot perennials in the ground. Now there's just all the fall cleanup ... Read on »

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