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Gardeners will find inventive fun at this year’s Seattle P-I/Seattle Tilth display, “Harvesting the Rain,” at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Visitors can garner ideas on design and water conservation, find resources and uses for recycled materials, and admire the range of native plants that can be used to good effect in the garden. Continue reading
Sarah Lowell Bishop treats rainfall playfully and as a gardener’s friend. Drought can seem as distant as the desert during Skagit’s rainy season, but Bishop’s landscape designs are mindful of the extended dry spells that stress plants and send water bills spiraling. Continue reading