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• In the Garden: Jacobus makes most of landscape

  August 14, 2011 in Features on Page D3 My featured gardener for August is Rose Jacobus. And with her first name, is it any wonder she excels at gardening? She and her husband LeRoy live on 10 acres …

• Friends create colorful landscape

  August 11, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S6 It’s a friendship that started over a classic but dead Jaguar. Claudia Gendron and her husband had just driven it from Seattle to Spokane to deliver it to Julie Nesbitt …

• Allow garden photography to grow on you

  August 7, 2011 in Features on Page D3 Something I enjoy just as much as writing is taking the photographs that accompany these columns. I find myself constantly marveling at the natural world around me and I enjoy …

• Warm, late-summer days sure to bring spider mites, other bugs

  August 4, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S6 The warm days of late summer always bring out the bugs. This year is no exception. The warmer weather is likely to bring on the spider mites. These are tiny, …

• Ripening days in garden numbered

  July 30, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V3 OK, its time for Plan B for vegetable gardeners. We have about six weeks to get stuff ripe before our traditional first frost date. How do we salvage the rest …

• Ripening days in garden numbered

  July 28, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S12 OK, its time for Plan B for vegetable gardeners. We have about six weeks to get stuff ripe before our traditional first frost date. How do we salvage the rest …

• Children’s garden fosters trust and growth

  July 28, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Plants thrive and grow best with fertile soil, sunlight, water and care. But if people were plants, abused and neglected children would be the flowers sown in barren soil where … 1

• Neises displays his creativity in the garden

  July 24, 2011 in Features on Page D3 This month’s featured gardener is Lars Neises. A math instructor at Spokane Falls Community College for more than 30 years, he’s also an expert gardener. “What I like about gardening … 1

• June’s garden a natural in its rugged setting

  July 21, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Barbra Safranek started hauling home plants and planting them before their new house site was little more than a basalt knob with very little soil and part of a foundation …

• Certain garden plants make terrific scents

  July 17, 2011 in Features on Page D3 A garden should be a feast for the senses: bright colors for the eyes, soft textures to touch, and delightful scents to inhale deeply. When it comes to fragrance, there …

• Expect quite a show at upcoming garden tour

  June 16, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S4 If you aren’t doing anything this weekend and even if you are, make some time to do the Spokane in Bloom garden tour this Saturday. The Inland Empire Gardeners have …

• Great time to grow garden excitement

  May 8, 2011 in Features on Page D3 This spring has been tough on gardeners. Our chilly, wet weather has made it difficult to get gardens started and has put a damper on most gardeners’ cheerful optimism about …

• No better time to dig up ideas for your 2011 garden

  February 20, 2011 in Features on Page D3 Talking about gardening in February might seem a bit premature, but you are probably just as anxious to welcome the warmer months and get some seeds into the soil as …

• Autumn memories will get you to spring

  November 4, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Driving north of Spokane one day last week was a special treat. Everything was a blaze of fall color. The aspen and cottonwoods along the streams were torches of gold, …

• Store garden’s bounty for taste of summer

  October 31, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Vegetable gardeners got lucky this fall. In spite of downright cold weather through most of the summer, we got just enough Indian summer to ripen up most of the garden …

• Store garden’s bounty for taste of summer

  October 28, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Vegetable gardeners got lucky this fall. In spite of downright cold weather through most of the summer, we got just enough Indian summer to ripen up most of the garden …

• Garden a memorial to beloved son

  October 17, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I4 Little Theo loved life. He loved exploring his world and was just discovering the broader world when he died on his first birthday in early May this year. He left …

• Garden a memorial to beloved son

  October 14, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page N6 Little Theo loved life. He loved exploring his world and was just discovering the broader world when he died on his first birthday in early May this year. He left …

• Winning garden is place where Mediterranean meets pine forest

  August 22, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Truly beautiful gardens are a blend of plants, their setting and the heart and talent of the gardeners. All this comes together in John and Maralee Karwoski’s garden in Spokane’s …

• Winning garden is place where Mediterranean, Palouse intersect

  August 19, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page N8 Truly beautiful gardens are a blend of plants, their setting and the heart and talent of the gardeners. All this comes together in John and Maralee Karwoski’s garden in Spokane’s …

• Reid garden intended to keep memory of EWU lab school alive

  August 19, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S1 The memory of the lab school on the Eastern Washington University campus in Cheney will live on in a new garden. The Robert Reid Elementary Lab School didn’t only teach …

• With careful planning, you can keep color in garden until first frost

  August 15, 2010 in Features on Page D3 In spring and early summer, gardeners enjoy a profusion of bloom throughout their landscapes. By midsummer, however, the irises, poppies, daisies, lupines and peonies are but a sweet memory. Unless …

• Guarding against early or mild frost just takes a little research, planning

  August 29, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V2 No matter how warm it is right now, we are in the beginning of the change to fall, with its eventual killing frost. Even though our average first frost date …

• Hardy, native penstemons are great for most gardens

  July 19, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 With growing interest in more sustainable gardening practices, gardeners are looking for plants that are more adaptable to our climate and require less water, fertilizer and maintenance. In many cases …

• Hardy, native penstemons great for most gardens

  July 18, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V4 With growing interest in more sustainable gardening practices, gardeners are looking for plants that are more adaptable to our climate and require less water, fertilizer and maintenance. In many cases …

• Native penstemons great for most gardens

  July 16, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page S7 With growing interest in more sustainable gardening practices, gardeners are looking for plants that are more adaptable to our climate and require less water, fertilizer and maintenance. In many cases …

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