GARDENER'S READING ROOM
The Art of Gardening

Structure Gardening
Winter is about structure and architecture — not trellises and hardscape, but branches, bark, and trunks. Read more.

Playing with Color
After a long Seattle winter of gray and more gray, I’m ready to leap into a more colorful season! ...When the great summer plants start arriving, it’s a perfect time to think of how to combine colors and textures for maximum impact, whatever your light situation. Read more.

Harbingers of Spring
In the chilly depths of winter I’m torn between my desire to stay warm and my need to get out into the garden...here in the Puget Sound area, February is actually already bustling with floral activity. Read more.

Indoor Plants Find New Ways to Climb
What if you wanted to create a lush living wall...a work of art that grew and changed?...“Wally” is a living wall system designed to easily hang anywhere, enabling you to create a lush living or work space. Read more.

Late to the Party… but What an Entrance!
While fall is a wonderful time to take stock of your garden, to move, divide, and evaluate options for future plantings, it’s also prime time for the season’s late bloomers. Read more.

Container Design and Care
Autumn is a great time for renovating and refreshing your containers. Read more.

Gardening From the Ground Up
Groundcovers are the workhorses of the landscape. They come in many forms: creeping and upright, evergreen and deciduous, drought-tolerant and moisture-loving. Read more.

More BANG for Your Buck: Multi-Season Plants
We get a great many requests for a plant that flowers year round, never needs watering, and loves both full sun and deep shade. Oh, for such a plant! However there really are some great plant choices that have multiple season interest... Read more.

Peonies Rule!
With a little planning, you can have peonies in bloom for at least a few months in your yard. Read more.

Trees for Urban Gardens
Selecting trees for urban gardens can be challenging...the following little trees can create a big impact! Read more.

Naturally Native
Want a Northwest look for your garden along with low maintenance, good disease resistance, shelter and food for wildlife, all topped off with beauty and color? Go Native! Read more.

Terrariums, Conservatories, Bottle and Dish Gardens & the Plants that Love Them... part I, Tropical Terrariums
Terrariums are popular - again! Traditionally, a terrarium is an unheated (usually glass) enclosure with a lid in which medium/low light tropical plants are grown. Read more.

Fall Color for Northwest Gardens
In autumn, as our gardens prepare for winter, new possibilities emerge, drawing our attention to foliage color and bark texture. Read more.

Year-Round Container Style
It's a good time to look at longer-term planning for making your plants and planters look great all year round. Read more.

Fragrant Plants for Mother's Day
Nothing better expresses love than perfume caressing the air.... Here are some of our favorite fragrant plants for you to show your love for Mom! Read more.

Containers: Year Around Beauty and Color
May is a perfect time to start the container process. Read more.

Beautiful Bulbs
February is when the summer-flowering bulbs start arriving at Sky Nursery...Read more.

Put the RIGHT PLANT in the RIGHT PLACE
If you want an easy maintenance garden, make the right choices when you buy plants this spring. Read more.

Winterizing Your Garden for Wildlife
It's a cold, slate grey winter day with a warm fire burning in your fireplace, a cup of hot tea and plate of cookies by your chair,...Read more.

Autumn Gardens - Feast for the Eyes
Autumn in the garden can be just as colorful as spring and summer and doesn't deserve a reputation as an "off season". Read more.

Gardening beneath Trees
Large trees are valuable in many ways as part of our landscapes....So, how does a gardener plant wisely beneath these large trees? Read more.

The Fun Art of Growing Trees... In Pots
With the continued clear cutting of land to build more homes and with the shrinking of lot sizes, the problem of how to re-tree your garden becomes a conundrum. Read more.

Easy Bonsai
A large part of successful gardening is choosing the right plant. The same holds true when picking out plant material for bonsai training. Read more.

Put The Right Plant... In The Right Place
Do you have plants that dwindle in the shade?
Are your plants burnt in the sun? Read more.

Using Indoor Plants Outdoors
Practically every magazine or column that has anything to do with gardening has touted the indoor plant as a wonderful way to add variety, color and texture to the outdoor container in summer. Read more.

Bonsai: Getting Started
Bonsai is a fun and rewarding hobby, but as with any hobby, a little research can make the difference between success and failure in your introduction to this ancient and beautiful art form. Read more.

EXTREME Rhododendrons
Most rhododendrons ever bred thrive in Puget Sound conditions...here are a few of our favorite best-performing "extreme rhododendrons." Read more.

Choosing Concrete Statuary
When you mention the words " concrete statuary" what typically comes to mind? Read more.

Fall Garden Remodel
Everyone needs to move the furniture every once in a while. In the garden, fall is the best time to rearrange the furniture. Read more.

Best Clumping Bamboos for Specific Situations
Want a unique Mother's Day gift? Here are BooShoot Gardens owner Jackie Heinricher's recommendations for the TOP CLUMPING BAMBOOS. Read more.

Gardening in a Pot
Gardening in containers can release your inner creative genius. You can try the offbeat, the traditional, the Zen, and the wow! Read more.

Water Features
When envisioning a garden design it's important to have a focal point to draw the eye to a remote corner or to make you want to venture further in. Read more.

7 Easy Steps to a Pondless Water Feature
Would you like the sight and sound of water in your landscape, but you aren't really a "fountain" person and you don't want a pond? Read more.

Primroses
As the bleakness of winter hovers over the Puget Sound, even the most dedicated gardeners avoid working outdoors....Read more.

Color Punch with Under Plantings
This time of year, flower power has diminished if not completely abated. The other day I was using red, coral, and yellow twig dogwoods in a display, so I started looking for companion plants that would draw attention to those colorful twigs....Read more.

Strolling through the Late Winter Garden
So I've mulched the flower beds, pruned my fruit trees and shrubs….If, like me, you don't want to wait until April to trek back outside,here's a short list of plants that will help jump-start spring in your own yard...Read more.

Change Can Be... Good?
I love change, the changing of the seasons that is...I could go on and on about the many plants available for fall color...Read more.

Berried Treasures
Fall brings with it the turning of leaves to dazzle our senses... Berried plants have long been a source of visual pleasure during our brief winter. Read more.

Fabulous Fashions for Fall!
Has your garden been a flurry of frolicsome color - up until now? Read more.

Hydrangeas
If roses are the royalty of the summer garden, hydrangeas are at least their top courtiers. In fact, they could very well instigate a coup. Read more.

Contained Elegance: Trees and Shrubs for the Large Planter
Last Skylights, we talked about vertical solutions for limited space. The next step is to talk about the most limited space of all: a single container! Read more.

Vertical Solutions
A common topic among visitors to Sky Nursery of late is trying to garden in a small and often narrow space. Read more.

Color for the Cool Months
One of the great things about living in the Northwest is our year round greenery. Read more.

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