Posts Tagged ‘garden planning’
Gardening with Kids: How to Grow Lifelong Gardeners
If you are a gardener, or even an aspiring gardener, and you have children in your life, you have a wonderful opportunity to pass along your passion for tending the soil to the next generation. Introducing kids to gardening can inspire a lifelong appreciation for the natural world, not to mention helping kids develop healthy…
Read MoreGrowing Resilience: Garden Planning for a Changing Climate
Help your garden thrive in the face of climate change while contributing to community climate resilience.
Read MoreCompanion Planting
We get a lot of questions about companion planting at Sky. Many gardeners hope for a straightforward list of compatible plants to make it easy to intercrop their garden beds. But ultimately, charts and lists might be a little too simplistic for the beautifully complex world of plants. Instead, we like to think about companion…
Read MoreWhat’s a Rootstock? Grafted Fruit Tree Basics
Most of the fruit trees we sell at Sky are grafted, meaning that they are actually a combination of at least two trees! This goes not only for our “combination” trees that grow more than one kind of fruit, but even for those that only produce a single variety. Grafting is what keeps dwarf trees…
Read MoreNew Rose Varieties 2021
For years, Sky Nursery has offered our customers hundreds of varieties of pre-potted roses, available by early February. Sky has one of the largest rose fields in the Seattle-area, and our knowledgeable staff is here to help you select the perfect varieties for your garden. Every year, we bring in a few new varieties to…
Read MoreContainer Japanese Maples: Tips & Tricks from a Pro
See our favorite maples for Fall 2022! Planting Japanese maples in containers is a great opportunity to add beauty, height & interest to your view, whether it’s on a back porch patio or part of a larger landscape. And, it’s easy to keep them happy and healthy when you meet their basic needs. Check out…
Read MoreDividing Perennials
Fall is an excellent time to divide many perennials.
Read MoreSeed Saving Basics
Seed saving is making a comeback! Like other survival skills from home canning to foraging, saving seeds was all but forgotten for a short time, but the practice thriving once again among a new generation of enthusiasts. Seed saving is just what it sounds like: collecting and saving the seeds that your garden plants naturally…
Read MoreGarden Resolutions: plan ahead for a bountiful year
What are your garden resolutions for 2017? Here are just a few of ours.
Read MoreFive Secrets of Ecological Pest Management
Save time, energy, and money by letting nature manage your pests for you.
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