Recommended Gardening Resources

• Flower Basket Art Poles- Online Map- Edmonds Art Commision
• Master Gardener program through WSU Extension
• Master Gardeners of Snohomish County
• How to build rain garden in the Pacific Northwest
• Gardening in the Pacific Northwest- Better Homes
• Northwest Perennial Alliance
• Great Site for Young Gardeners and Beginners
• 300 Great Garden Design Ideas
• University of Washington Botanic Gardens - Gardening by Topic
• Gardening in Washington (WSU)- Blog and links to a lot of free downloadable ebooks
• Plant Amnesty  is a 1000-member nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide education, resources, and advocacy to prevent malpruning and preserve urban greenspaces.
• Pacific Northwest Wildflowers- Turner Photographics contains 16699 wildflower photographs by Mark Turner, available for license as stock photography for editorial or commercial use. Browse the plants takes you to pages for individual plants with a photo, description, and distribution map. From there you can see more photos of the same species.
• Great Plant Picks - is the primary educational program of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden which debuted in 2001 with the first recommendations for a comprehensive palette of outstanding plants for the maritime Pacific Northwest. To date over 1,000 exceptional plants have been selected for gardeners living west of the Cascade Mountains from Eugene, Oregon, USA to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Edmonds Floretum Garden Club- Edmonds Floretum Garden Club provides a friendly atmosphere for educational opportunities to promote knowledge of horticulture, the art of floral and landscape design, conservation of natural resources, protecting wildlife, civic beautification and above all, the love of gardening, while honoring its charter purpose of beautifying Edmonds
• Oregon State University Gardening Site
• Rain Barrel information and sources
• A Home Gardener’s Guide to Soils and Fertilizers
• Edible Flowers
• Starting Seeds Indoors- University of Minnesota
• Home Gardening- Cornell University
• Online Gardening Courses by National Association of Gardening

• Molbaks Garden and Home  Egon and Laina Molbak arrived in rural Woodinville from Denmark, bringing with them a passion for gardening, and a dream of creating their own business that took root and grew. Over six decades later, their dream is in full bloom.  WOODENVILLE
• Sky Nursery Founded in 1953, Sky Nursery has served generations of gardeners in the Shoreline and Seattle communities. Today Sky Nursery is recognized as the "Gardener's Garden Store" throughout the region. SHORELINE
• Swanson Nursery  A garden center with five acres of parklike displays featuring the region's best selection of perennials, herbs, trees and shrubs ranging from the common to the unusual.  NORTH SEATTLE

• A&D Nursery   a wide selection of peonies from fragrant, antique varieties to the newest hybrids and rare finds.  For the Love of Peonies for Over 45 Years.  SNOHOMISH
• Bainbridge Gardens   In 2018, Bainbridge Gardens celebrated its 60th year in business on Bainbridge Island. Junkoh and Chris Harui started Town and Country Florist in a 900-sq.-ft. space next to Town and Country Market in Winslow in 1958. BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
• Bamboo Specialty Nursery By appointment only.   BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
• Boxhill Farm and Nursery — The nursery, begun in 1998, has a few special interest categories resulting from the owners' passions, such as an extensive collection of bamboo, over sixty cultivars of daylilies, and twenty-seven varieties of boxwood. Plus, every spring about two hundred perennials, selected from the best hybrids available, are offered.  DUVALL
• Bremerton City Nursery offering edible plants including, berries, kiwis, figs, hops, grapes, herbs, organic vegetables, a varied assortment of annuals, perennials, shrubs, Japanese maples, tender and hardy succulents, small landscape trees, collectible conifers, vines, fresh cut and living Christmas trees, and houseplants. In addition,  carry bagged organic soils and compost, ceramics, pottery, birdbaths and unique gift items.  BREMERTON
• Burnt Ridge Nursery is a family-owned farm, in business since 1980. Their 20-acre farm is located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains with a beautiful view of Mount St. Helens. Their mail order nursery specializes in unusual and disease resistant trees, vines, and shrubs that produce edible nuts or fruits. They also have a large selection of Northwest native plants and ornamental and useful landscape trees. They send nice sized, healthy, well-rooted plant material. ONALASKA
• Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm Built in the late 1800s, the historic Bell House, was once a 160-acre homestead to Sequim, Washington's second settler, John Bell, an Englishman who came to the Pacific Northwest to work for the Hudson Bay Company.

  Fast forward 100+ years to 1967, Karen McReynolds cultivated the land surrounding the Bell House and launched Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm, the first herb farm in Washington State that had a focus of handcrafted lavender goods and herb plants. SEQUIM

• Chimacum Woods-  A Rhododendron Nursery   is a rhododendron garden and nursery located on eighteen acres of Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.  Founded and managed by Robert Zimmermann and Beth Orling, they offer a large variety of species rhododendrons for sale—including many rare and unusual types—all grown from seed as much as possible for the sake of biodiversity. They augment this selection with a variety of cutting-grown plants taken from recognized superior forms of selected species.  PORT LUDLOW
• Christianson's Nursery    Located in beautiful Skagit Valley, Christianson’s Nursery offers a wide variety of common and uncommon plants, garden accessories, antiques & gifts, and the largest selection of roses and perennials in Northwest Washington.  You are invited to pack a lunch and have a picnic on the grounds of the schoolhouse.  MT VERNON
• Cloud Mountain Nursery  Founded in 2011 and based in Everson, WA, Cloud Mountain Farm Center is a nonprofit teaching farm dedicated to building knowledge, experience, and community to expand dynamic local food systems.
  They use a holistic approach to changing the way food gets from farm to table. Their farm center serves the food system as a whole, by educating and empowering consumers, home gardeners, new and aspiring farmers, and existing commercial producers. Located on a 42 acre production farm, orchard, and nursery provides an unparalleled learning environment and opportunity for applied research.  EVERSON
• Collector's Nursery— is a small specialty mail order nursery in the southwest corner of Washington state, with an ever changing palette of interesting plants and particularly fond of unusual shade plants, like Epimedium, Erythronium, Hepatica, Polygonatum (Solomon Seal) and similar shade lovers. BATTLE GROUND
• Dig Floral and Garden seeks out many of the latest varieties of all the hot new plants. Restios, Grevilleas, Correas, Astelia, Tetrapanax—to name a few. Their aim; however, is not to have just the newest, but to be mindful of texture, architecture, color and how these plants will perform within the landscape.  VASHON ISLAND
• Far Reaches Farm  — They propagate and grow most of their plants themselves which allows them to grow many more impractical species than we should. Many times people shy away from a rare plant thinking it is hard to grow, but more often, it is difficulty of propagation or simply not fitting into a standard nursery routine that makes a plant rare in commerce. Now doing mail order. PT. TOWNSEND
• Fillman Road Nursery  specialties are rhododendrons, perennials and azaleas. They have over 100 varieties of rhododendrons and azaleas and thousands of plants in our inventory including their Rainier Rhododendrons.  RAINIER
• Flower World  one of the largest retail nurseries on the West Coast in the rural town of Maltby in beautiful Snohomish County.  The retail nursery is situated on a picturesque fifteen acres.  A unique one-of-a-kind nursery that has grown over time into what Flower World is today. MALTBY
• Fruitful Farm Fruitful Farm is a family owned, beyond organic, diversified nursery & farm nestled in the beautiful foothills of Washington’s Stillaguamish Valley. Their colorful nursery of vibrant hanging flower baskets, annuals, perennials, rare ornamental shrubs, trees and dwarf evergreen conifers complete a refreshing oasis that delights the eyes and inspires the soul. Artistic container gardening is one of their favorite specialties. Bring your containers and planters and they will be glad to help you select the perfect varieties for your own planters to bring cheerful color and beauty to any porch, patio or deck.  ARLINGTON

• Full Bloom Farm  is a small diversified farm located on Lummi Island, WA in the Puget Sound. They specialize in unique varieties of cut peonies and grow a wide range of fruits and vegetables using organic practices. They also have a cheery flock of hens and sell our fresh eggs, with all their produce, at their farm stand. LUMMI ISLAND
• Hima Nursery  was established to fulfill an increasing demand for Pacific Northwest native plants. They grow a range of species in sizes ranging from plugs to seven gallon containers. Offering a large assortment of quality material, native shrubs and grasses, as well as a small array of ornamental shrubs. EVERETT
• Juel's Unique Nursery A full service nursery with a country flair. Relax while strolling through their display gardens, watch the finches in the aviary, dream of fishing for Koi in their pond or look at all the unusual varieties of plants they have to offer. Nestled on a hilltop, above the Satsop River, you will enjoy the tranquil sounds of the country while shopping. They strive to provide a clean, accessible shopping area and knowledgeable staff.  ELMA
• Keeping it Green Nursery Cultivating garden-worthy perennials from around the world and educating people about them. Hardy orchids and woodland perennials are our specialties. Hardy orchids, from the commonly available to the obscure - Bletilla, Cypripedium, Calanthe, Dactylorhiza and Epipactis, among others. Their favorite woodland perennials include species Iris, species Lilium, distinctive foliage plants such as Syneilesis, and Podophyllum, and much more. STANWOOD
•  Lael's Moon Garden offers A wide choice of trees, shrubs, edibles and select perennials, Unusual plant varieties and old standbys at reasonable prices,  Larger plant sizes in addition to sizes more commonly available,  Widest selection of hardy outdoor plnts in the area,  Plants selected to do well in our climate, – Useful cultural information about plants.  ROCHESTER
• Lake Tapps Rhododendron  Located in the foothills of Mt. Rainier and nestled in 3 acres of fir trees, they offer one of the biggest selections of species and hybrid rhododendrons in the Pacific Northwest. Family owned, son and daughter-in-law of Stuart Imrie, a well-known hybridizer of rhodies.  BONNEY LAKE
• Pine Creek Nursery  With beautiful display gardens, rustic and vintage decor, and a large selection of unique and healthy plants, they can get you started on being successful with your gardening project...or help you finish something that has been in the works! MONROE
• Raintree Nursery Edible landscaping from around the world. A great source for edible trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial plants. Many selected for our maritime climate and disease resistance. If you are building an edible garden their catalog is a must! MORTON
• Ravenna GardensThey offer unique products for the garden and home, catering to gardeners in the Pacific Northwest. At their store in University Village in Seattle, you will find an abundance of products to inspire you to personalize your outdoor space, and to creatively bring the outdoors inside. UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, SEATTLE
• Roadhouse Nursery   specialize in pond plants and supplies, but also carry a wide range of nursery products: ornamental trees, Japanese maples, shrubs, annuals and perennials.  Over the last few years they have gained quite a reputation for the quality and value of they hanging baskets. POULSBO
• Russell Watergardens & Koi is a manufacturer of patented pond filtration and is a well respected leader of pond and pondless waterfall technology and innovation. Creator of the Ultimate Pondless Waterfall System, Hybrid Ponds, and the exclusive Bubble-Less Koi Pond. Russell Watergardens & Koi is your complete source for pond supplies and Easy to Clean pond, pondless, water gardening, koi ponds. Design, Installation, and Pond Maintenance Products.  REDMOND
• Sequim Rare Plants Special interests that you can expect to see increase are: evergreen perennials, fragrant plants, winter flowers, kniphofias, ornamental grasses, plants with foliage colored other than green, such as dark leaved plants and variegated plants, and ....things that go “bump” in the night.  SEQUIM
• Smokey Point Plant Farm  their beautiful 6.5-acre retail nursery offers a fabulous selection of annuals, perennials, groundcovers, conifers, hedging plants, deciduous trees, evergreen shrubs and deciduous shrubs. In season, they offer a wide variety of roses and fruiting trees and shrubs.  MARYSVILLE
• Sunnycrest Nursery and Floral is a year-round garden center and nursery with the quality plants and garden supplies to make the most of your gardening - indoors and out, spring, summer, winter, and fall. LAKEBAY
• Sunnyside Nursery  established 1948 and located in Marysville, Washington is a local retail nursery that provides all of your gardening needs, from soils, fertilizers, pesticides, tools, pottery, arbors and trellises, to a fantastic selection of annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees.  MARYSVILLE
• Tadpole Haven Native Plants  carries over 100 species of plants native to lowland Western Washington, helping satisfy the increasing need for native flora suitable for landscapes, restoration projects and retail sale. This valuable and beautiful resource requires minimal irrigation, fertilization and pest control. WOODINVILLE
• The Nursery at Mount Si   offers plants and hardscape materials to make your home as personalized outside as it is inside. NORTH BEND
• Tsugawa Nursery and Landscaping  Tsugawa Nursery has grown and become well established as the area's best place to shop for garden and landscape plants and supplies. Tsugawa's is the Northwest headquarters for the largest selection and best variety in fruit trees, bonsai, and Japanese maples, as well as pond plants and supplies They pride themselves in finding unique and hard to find plant material. WOODLAND
• Valley Nursery  With its acreage filled with plants and supplies, you have a great chance of finding what you are looking for. Some of the specialties include Dwarf and Unusual Conifers, Roses for Northwest gardens, Rhododendrons, Tree and Small Fruits, as well as a huge selection of Annuals and Perennials in season. If you are building a pond or stocking an existing one, Valley Nursery has a complete Water Garden section. Also, cut and living Christmas Trees are available during the holidays. POULSBO
• Watson's Greenhouse & Nursery  Watson's grows the majority of the annual plants, planters and hanging baskets they sell. Watson's is always striving to offer the best quality plant material and customer service possible. They also offer an extended gift line, garden art and additional gardening products and plants. PUYALLUP
• Whitney Gardens and Nursery  Among rare trees and ponds you will see the most beautiful array of rhododendron hybrids and species in the Northwest. You will also see an abundance of azaleas, magnolias, maples, conifers, kalmias, camellias, perennials, trees, shrubs and ground cover. BRINNON
• Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery Located in beautiful Gig Harbor, Washington, Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery has been growing and supplying native plants to landscapers, designers and homeowners throughout the Pacific Northwest since 1991. GIG HARBOR
• Woods Creek Wholesale Nursery  a 40-year-old wholesale grower nursery near Seattle and open to the public. They can help you with your landscaping design ideas and native plant restorations. They have a large selection of shrubs and specimen trees on-site, well suited for use as large or small privacy barriers, hedges or screens.Their selection of plants and specimen trees is unmatched by most nurseries in the Northwest. In total, they grow over 500 different types of plants, shrubs, hedges, and trees within their 20-acre nursery and arboretum. Many of the varieties we grow are native to the Northwest.

• Edmonds in Bloom - Since 1997, Edmonds in Bloom has sponsored the Edmonds Garden Tour, a yearly event celebrating inspiring private gardens in our community.
• Gig Harbor Garden Tour Self-guided tour of gardens in the Greater Gig Harbor Area. Each garden has a unique story to tell that reflects the gardener's heart & style. The variety, artistry, design & color will inspire you.
• Jefferson County Secret Garden Tour- From uptown Port Townsend to Cape George see diverse gardens
• Millcreek Garden Tour  Self-guided tour of beautiful gardens in the Mill Creek & surrounding area. "Artisan Market" in each featured garden with garden art.
• Mukilteo Garden & Quilt Tour  Self-directed tour of 6 select residential Mukilteo gardens.  Curated Quilt Show at the gallery inside Rosehill Community Center with some quilts for sale. Also raffle at the community center.
• Petals and Pathways Garden Tour- Port Angeles- Self-guided tour of 6 outstanding home gardens in the Port Angeles area. Each garden has Master Gardeners to help with plant identification. Benefits Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County.
• Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour-  Tour features beautiful unique private gardens in the City of Lake Forest Park. Each garden will host musicians, artists & master gardeners.
• Skagit Symphony Gardens of Note Garden Tour  A self-guided tour of 7 inspiration-filled gardens in the Mount Vernon area. Several raffle items on display at final garden.
• Snohomish Garden Clubs Garden Tour and Sale  Features  gardens with a variety of garden styles in the historic downtown area of Snohomish. The loop between gardens is about 1.5 miles.
• Spokane in Bloom Garden Tour - Self-guided tour showcasing 6 outstanding local gardens on the southside. Also garden-related vendors, artists & music.
• Sustainable Ballard Edible Garden Tour  Explore multiple gardens by foot or bicycle within walking distance of each other in Southwest Ballard. Raised beds, container gardens, planting strips, permaculture, fruit trees, chickens - you name it, you can find inspiration here, regardless of your yard or patio size. Proceeds support Sustainable Ballard's community projects.
• Tour of Gardens - Woodinville Garden Club
• Vashon Island Garden Tour  Enjoy a variety of island gardens that traverse Vashon & Maury Island’s diverse island ecosystems.
• West Seattle Garden Tour  Since 1995, the West Seattle Garden Tour has been inviting people to visit some of the most beautiful and unique gardens in West Seattle.
• Whidbey Island Garden Tour  Explore 5 residential gardens that offer a variety of gardening styles & inspiration.
• Woodenville Garden Club Garden Tour  Self-drive tour featuring 5 beautiful private gardens in the Woodinville area. Raffle tickets will be sold in each garden.

Puget Sound Public Gardens- Map to local gardens

• Bellevue Botanical Garden is a botanical garden east of downtown Bellevue, Washington on Main Street. Established in 1992, many different organizations work to maintain the garden to keep it free of charge. What began as a 7-acre gift to the city in the early 1980s has now become a 53-acre public park with multiple gardens. This includes the Fuchsia Garden, Lost Meadow Trail, Native Discovery Garden, Perennial Border, Rhododendron Glen, The Urban Meadow, Waterwise Garden, Yao Garden, and Dahlia Display. 12001 Main Street, Bellevue
• Bloedel Reserve is a 150-acre  forest garden on Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States. It was created by Virginia and Prentice Bloedel, the vice-chairman of the lumber company MacMillan Bloedel Limited, under the influence of the conservation movement and Asian philosophy. 7571 NE Dolphin Drive, Bainbridge Island
• Carl S. English, Jr. Botanical Gardens  is a 7 acre botanical garden located on land adjacent to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks completed in 1917, which connects Puget Sound with Lake Union and Lake Washington.  It is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. free of charge.3015 NW 54th Street, Seattle
• Center for Urban Horticulture  University of Washington
  The Center for Urban Horticulture, opened in 1984, is part of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. It includes a 16-acre landscaped site with buildings and gardens, and the 74-acre Union Bay Natural Area, which provides publicly accessible wildlife habitat (more than 200 bird species have been sighted there) and an outdoor laboratory for UW research. The UW Botanic Gardens’ administrative offices are housed in Merrill Hall, along with associated faculty and research laboratories and greenhouses.
• Chase Garden  Located in Orting, Washington, just one hour south of Seattle, is a special 4 1/2 acre garden. It sits on a bluff that overlooks the Puyallup River Valley with a spectacular view of Mt Rainier.

• Covington Water District Waterwise Demonstration Garden  This garden showcases WaterWise gardening. Some areas never get water beyond what Nature provides.  Come stroll, touch and smell in this beautiful water-efficient landscape while picking up ideas for your own yard. Includes drought tolerant native plants.  18631 SE 300^thPlace, Covington

• Dunn Gardens  is a privately owned 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) property composed of the remaining acreage of the estate of Arthur G. Dunn Sr., who bought the property in 1914 as a summer get-a-way for his family, and contracted the landscaping to the Olmsted Brothers. Upon his death, the property was inherited by his children. His son Edward B. Dunn provided for the care of his share of the estate in his will. A trust was created two years after his death to oversee the entire property. Dunn Gardens were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1994, and is open for special public events and docent-led guided tours April through July, and from September through October.  13533 Northshire Rd NW, Seattle
• Elandan Gardens  is a waterfront gardens in Bremerton with a world-class bonsai collection and landscape artistry of Dan Robinson. The bonsai museum is set among ponds, waterfalls, sculptures and lush gardens on the shores of Puget Sound.

• Evergreen Arboretum & Gardens  is 3 ½ acres of beauty in American Legion Memorial Park, Everett Washington. Maintained by a small army of volunteers and garden curators with help from Everett Parks and Community Services, its eleven themed gardens include the Urban Tree Walk, Rock Garden, Northwest Native Plant Trail, Japanese Maple Grove, Nativar Garden, Backyard Garden, Horizontal Rock Garden, Viewing Mound, Woodland Garden & Fernery and Conifer Gardens as well as the Snohomish County Master Gardeners’ Demonstration Border.

• The Highline Botanical Garden  The Highline Botanical Garden Foundation was originally formed to save and rebuild Elda Behm's 'Paradise Garden', which was imperiled by the proposed expansion of SeaTac Airport. The project has been expanded to build a full-fledged botanical garden for the Highline community, incorporating Elda's Paradise Garden as a central element.
• Heronswood Garden People depend on plants. The Heronswood Garden seeks to inspire community with its plant collections and charismatic landscapes, to educate on the connections between plants and people, to encourage to protect plants and their natural habitats, and to appreciate the great diversity of plants and the people who care for them.The Heronswood Garden began in 1987 and comprises 15 acres in Western Washington’s Kitsap County. Heronswood protects a vast array of plants from around the world, with over 8,000 different varieties spread across six distinct yet integrated gardens. Purchased by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe in 2012, Heronswood now serves as a showcase for tribal culture and operates under the auspices of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
• Kruckeberg Botanic Garden  is a 4 acre botanical garden located in  Shoreline, Washington. It is currently a private residence, open to the public at designated hours which alternate seasonally. It is also open for tours, by appointment, and for horticultural workshops.The garden was first begun in 1958 by Prof. Arthur Rice Kruckeberg, University of Washington, and his wife Mareen Schultz Kruckeberg. A foundation was formed in 1998 to preserve their garden, and in 2003 it received an easement to preserve the garden in perpetuity. 20312 15th Ave NW, ShorelineThe garden contains a mix of native species with non-native specimens, mainly from China and Japan. It includes exotic conifers (larches, sequoias, pines, firs, spruces, and hemlocks); hardwoods, especially oaks and maples; rhododendrons, magnolias, a unique wingnut, and many other woody plants, as well as notable displays of ferns, cyclamens, wood sorrel, and inside-out flower.
• Kubota Garden  Seattle.  "Just as inspiring as the magical garden, however, is the story of its creation. Once a weed-choked swamp, it owes its existence to Fujitaro Kubota, who was born in Japan. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1906, first working in a sawmill..."
• Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens are nonprofit gardens located at 3531 Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank, Washington. They are open daily; admission is $5.00.  The gardens were founded by Ann and Max Meerkerk in the early 1960s on 13 acres (53,000 m²), and served as a site where they collected and hybridized rhododendrons. They gradually expanded the garden to 10 acres (40,000 m²) of rhododendrons surrounded by an additional 43 acres (170,000 m²) of woodlands. Ann Meerkerk left the gardens to the Seattle Rhododendron Society in 1979.  Today the garden features more than 1,500 varieties of rhododendron species and hybrids.
• Lake Wilderness Arboretum- located in the heart of Maple Valley, is a sanctuary that inspires, educates and connects visitors to the natural world. Started in 1965 by volunteers dedicated to establishing an arboretum in south King County it is now made up of 42-acres of cultivated gardens and trails through a second growth forest in the midst of a rapidly developing area. Quite a change from the airplane landing strip for the local lake resort that they were given. The Lake Wilderness Arboretum features one of the largest collections of Rhododendron occidentale in the world along with a large collection of Japanese maples, vine maples, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and dwarf conifers.

• Lakewold Gardens  Offers landscape architecture by Thomas Church surrounded by rare and native plants, State Champion trees, over 900 rhododendrons, 30 Japanese maples and stunning statuary. A Washington State historic landmark, Lakewold’s Georgian-style mansion and historic architecture complete the 10 acres.  12317 Gravelly Lake Drive SW, Tacoma

• Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection  Federal Way, WA. The Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection is an outdoor museum of living art, featuring more than 50 outstanding bonsai elegantly displayed in a beautiful woodland setting. Bonsai from six Pacific Rim nations -- Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States -- grace the tropical conservatory and outdoor exhibit area.

• Point Defiance Park   Thematic gardens, including a Japanese Garden, Rose Garden, Dahlia Trail, Rhododendron Garden, Fuchsia Garden, Herb Garden, Iris Garden, and Northwest Native Garden provide a wide variety of horticultural experiences for visitors. Tacoma Garden Club currently maintains the Northwest Native Plant Garden that offers visitors the chance to see native plants in cultivation, including rarities that the general public rarely sees.  5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma, WA

• PowellsWood  Within 30 minutes of Seattle, PowellsWood is one of the fine gardens of the Puget Sound region. A true pleasure garden, PowellsWood is a unique celebration of the natural world. Open to the public,you are invited to come explore this oasis of beauty, rest, and inspiration.
• Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden  The Rhododendron Species Foundation is home to one of the largest and finest collections of rhododendron species in the world. Conveniently located between Seattle and Tacoma, in Federal Way, Washington, this non-profit nursery and garden flows and spills lovingly over 22 acres offering a breath-taking diversity of form, size, leaf and blossom. The Garden is open year round and is beautiful in every season.Purchase of plants, seeds and pollen can be arranged worldwide to members and non-members alike, though membership provides special benefits. 2525 South 336th Street, Federal Way,
• Roozengaarde and its two and one-half acre show garden promises to transport you into the "Old Country" with its windmill and gorgeous living displays, especially during Tulip Festival. Located in the Skagit Valley in Washington.
• Seattle Chinese Garden is located on 4.6 acres at the north end of the South Seattle Community College campus at 6000 in West Seattle. The site has a panoramic view of downtown Seattle, Elliott Bay and the Cascade Mountains, including Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier. The first portion of the garden opened in the early 1990s.
  When fully built, the garden will be one of the largest Chinese gardens outside of China. Designed and built in conjunction with architects and artisans from Seattle and its sister city, Chongqing, the garden will is the first in the United States to authentically represent the Sichuan style. The Garden features Sichuan horticulture and the rock formations inspired by China's Yangtze River gorges. Where possible, its formal halls and pavilions were fabricated in Chongqing using traditional materials and methods, and artisans from China supervised their installation in Seattle.
• Seattle Japanese Garden-  s a 3.5 acre Japanese garden in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle. The garden is located in the southern end of the Washington Park Arboretum on Lake Washington Boulevard East. The garden is one of the oldest Japanese gardens in North America, and is regarded as one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in the United States.
• Seymour Botanical Conservatory  Wright Park contains the Seymour Botanical Conservatory, a 1908 Victorian structure with a large collection of tropical plants.
• Soos Creek Garden and Heritage Center An Urban Oasis ... in the Heart of South King County. Enjoy 23 picturesque acres, over half of which are beautiful strolling gardens, nature paths and vintage buildings less than a mile from Highway 18. Tour the Soos Creek Plateau Heritage Center featuring local artifacts, photos and displays dating from the mid-1800s, and visit the peacocks, doves and other exotic birds at the aviary. The 'Red Barn,' located in a rustic, pastoral setting, seats up to 40 people, with adjacent parking. A variety of perennials, shrubs and trees as well as unique art work are available for purchase
• University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden  Located on the campus the University of Washington in Seattle, the Medicinal Herb Garden is a resource for herbalists, medics, and botanists of all levels.

• UW Botanic Gardens    has many distinct gardens on its two main sites at the Center for Urban Horticulture and the Washington Park Arboretum. The north end of the arboretum features representative native trees and shrubs and a nature walk. The Soest Herbaceous Display Garden aims to help local gardeners select plants appropriate to a variety of site conditions commonly found in Pacific Northwest urban gardens. This garden features over 280 kinds of herbaceous plants that include perennials, annuals, and bulbs. Irrigation is applied using “water-wise” techniques to avoid wasteful runoff and evaporation.  3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle

• Volunteer Park Conservatory Made up of 3,426 glass panes fit into a wood and iron framework, this Victorian-style greenhouse structure is modeled on London's Crystal Palace. Inside, the Volunteer Park Conservatory is divided into five display houses: bromeliads, ferns, palms, seasonal, and cacti/succulents.
• Washington Park Arboretum is a beautiful 200-acre park on the shore of Lake Washington. The winter garden is very appealing in the dark days of winter. a joint project of the University of Washington, the Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the nonprofit Arboretum Foundation. Washington Park also includes a playfield and the Seattle Japanese Garden in its southwest corner.
• Woodland Park Rose Garden  offers a wonderful setting for flower lovers. Stroll through 2.5 acres of formal landscape and enjoy nearly 3000 roses representing over 200 different varieties. The large variety of roses blend elegantly with the garden’s formal architectural design to create a memorable showcase landscape.
• W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory  Mission is to is to promote the connection between people and the natural world. Exotic tropical plants and seasonal floral displays await you at the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park. This historic glass conservatory, with its distinctive twelve-sided central dome, is listed on the City of Tacoma, Washington State and National Historic registers.

• King County Solid Waste Division – composting and improving soil health
• Tilth Alliance - Their mission is to build an ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially equitable food system. They enable community members through a variety of programs, classes, and events.
• King Conservation District – soil testing program.
• WSU Puyallup – extensive information on soils and soil testing and interpreting results.
• Washington State University- composting and soil testing downloadable, free eBooks.

• Washington Native Plant Society – plant lists, publications, plant sales.
• King County Water & Land Resources Division – Northwest Native Plant Guide – plant lists, photos, and landscape plans.
• King County Natural Resources & Parks Division – Native Plant Resources for the Pacific Northwest.
• Native Plants for Northwest- King County
• Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris   is the section of the American Iris Society dedicated to the wild-growing irises native to California, Oregon and Washington.
• Flora Northwest-  Flowers seen in Washington and Oregon
• Native Plant Resources
• Native Plant Society of Oregon
• Washington Native Plant Society
• Trees of the Pacific Northwest  The purpose of this site is to help you identify common conifers and broadleaves in the Pacific Northwest. Feel free to skip through the pages to learn more about specific genera, or to try your hand at identifying a tree specimen with a user-friendly dichotomous key. If you don't have a specimen handy, go to the mystery tree pages to try to identify the trees pictured.
• Oregon Flora Project  a comprehensive guide to the ~4,700 vascular plants of Oregon.
• Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening
• Washington State Nurseries for Native Plants
• Native Plant Nurseries

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Must-Have Books for All Gardeners

All-new illustrated guide to gardening: planning, selection, propagation, organic solutions.
Bradley, Fern Marshall and Trevor Cole

The classic gardening best-seller, Illustrated Guide To Gardening, a book that set the standard for gardening excellence more than three decades ago, has been totally revised to include the latest and most up-to-date information for today's gardener: All-new organic solutions take the mystery out of how to garden safely without using nasty chemicals. More than 800 diagrams and brand-new color illustrations offer step-by-step advice for gardeners of all abilities. The extensive plant directory with more than 700 plants and over 2,500 full-color photographs provides complete descriptions of the latest and best varieties for all hardiness zones, including Canada. Over 200 tables, problem-solving tips, garden design plans, and more provide invaluable guidance from the experts. Eco-friendly problem solving from the latest, safest organic controls to beneficial bugs will show you how to grow a gorgeous garden the natural way.

Building raised beds: easy, accessible garden space for vegetables and flowers.
Bradley, Fern Marshall.

For beginning gardeners and homeowners, this handbook shows you exactly how to plan, build, and plant a simple raised bed. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy and ensure success! In just a weekend, using a few basic materials and minimal building skills, you can set up a complete garden bed adapted for vegetables, flowers, or herbs.

Find-it-fast answers for your vegetable garden: 1,251 ways to outsmart insects, diseases, and weeds and keep your plants healthy all season long.
Bradley, Fern Marshall.

Food grown right, in your backyard: a beginner's guide to growing crops at home.
McCrate, Colin, Brad Halm, and Hilary Dahl.

As the founders behind the Seattle Urban Farm Company, Colin McCrate and Brad Halm have heard it all: My backyard is too small; how can I make space for a garden? Do I really need to buy fertilizer? What on earth is that creature crawling on the tomatoes? My crops took off and the zucchini are in the sidewalk -- who has time to harvest this all?!

Gardener to gardener: 1,001 greatest gardening tips ever: the best hints and techniques from the pages of Organic gardening magazine.
Bradley, Fern Marshall

Resourceful gardener's guide: garden solutions, hints, and homemade gadgets from gardeners across the country.
Bucks, Christine and Fern Marshall Bradley

Rodale's ultimate encyclopedia of organic gardening: the indispensable green resource for every gardener.
Bradley, Fern Marshall, Barbara W. Ellis, and Ellen Phillips

This book has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design.

Vegetable gardening: from planting to picking: the complete guide to creating a bountiful garden.
Bradley, Fern Marshall and Jane Courtier.

Nothing beats the taste of vegetables from a home garden, and with Vegetable Gardening it's never been easier. With over 80 varieties of vegetables to choose from, eating delicious, just-picked produce is a snap. Learn every step of creating and maintaining a cornucopia of garden-fresh vegetables: from choosing and planning your plot, preparing the soil, selecting seeds or cultivating seedlings, proper watering, harvesting, and storing.

Saving vegetable seeds. Bradley, Fern Marshall.

Save vegetable seeds as you harvest so your favorite plants can grow again next season. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Fern Marshall Bradley covers everything you need to know to successfully save seeds from 20 popular garden vegetables, including beans, carrots, peas, peppers, and tomatoes. Learn how each plant is pollinated, where to store your collected seeds through the winter, and how to test their replanting viability in the spring. Now you can grow the delicious varieties you love year after year.

Grow oodles of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers with no heavy lifting or digging required! Grow bag gardening utilizes lightweight, eco-friendly, fabric planter bags to grow great plants with minimal space and care. Get all the know-how you need to successfully grow a hearty homegrown harvest in Grow Bag Gardening.

Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds • Vertical Gardening • Indoor Edibles • Balconies and Rooftops • Hydroponics
Kevin Espiritu

If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again. There is a plethora of urban gardening options to create beautiful, productive edible gardens no matter where you live. The key to succeeding as an urban gardener is to choose the method(s) that make sense for your unique living situation and then give your plants what they need to thrive. Kevin helps you do just that.

All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere
by Mel Bartholomew 

Perfect for experienced gardeners or beginners, you’ll learn the three simple steps to Square Foot Gardening: build a box; fill it with Mel’s Mix™; add a grid. No digging, no tilling, no fertilizing, no guesswork—less watering, waste, and weeding! There’s so much more packed in this 272-page instructional book—boost your organic vegetable harvest with inspiring how-tos.

Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere! Hardcover – May 1, 2016
by Tara Nolan  

Raised Bed Revolution provides you with information on size requirements for constructing raised beds, height suggestions, types of materials you can use, and creative tips for fitting the maximum garden capacity into small spaces—including vertical gardening.

Kitchen Garden Revival: A modern guide to creating a stylish, small-scale, low-maintenance, edible garden Hardcover – Illustrated, May 5, 2020
by Nicole Johnsey Burke

The AHS Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques: A step-by-step guide to key skills for every gardener Hardcover – March 19, 2019
by The American Horticultural

The definitive guide to the best gardening techniques from pruning to propagation and planting to harvesting.

Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way 3rd Edition
by Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding (the guru of no dig gardening) shares his organic, no-dig approach to soil and plants. He reveals revealing the techniques that enable him to grow healthy, vibrant crops while maintaining a healthy soil. His success is based on these key principles • No-dig • Spread organic matter on the soil surface • Clean & improve the soil in the first 3-12 months • Weed every 10 days or so, when weeds are small. By using a system of permanent, slightly raised beds, Charles shows how to grow a delicious variety of fruit and vegetables sustainably and organically: what to choose; when to sow, plant and harvest; and how best to avoid pests and diseases.

The Old Farmer's Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Old Farmer's Almanac (Paperback)) Paperback – Illustrated, November 12, 2019
by Old Farmer’s Almanac 

This book is the perfect companion for every vegetable gardener—even those who have never touched a trowel and wouldn’t know mulch from mud! The practical advice presented in the Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook demystifies gardening by providing the best, most proven methods for sowing, growing, and harvesting.

RHS Gardening Through The Year Hardcover – September 6, 2018
by Ian Spence 

Let BBC Gardener's World writer Ian Spence tell you month by month what to do when in your garden, and show you exactly how to do it too. This fully illustrated book takes you systematically through the year, each chapter looking in-depth at one month at a time. A handy "To Do" list, along with "Last Chance" reminders and "Get Ahead" tips, gives you an overview of the month's tasks, followed by an inspirational gallery of "Star Plants" to showcase the visual highlights of the month.

Compost Classics -Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
by Mary Appelhof

For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen sink in an apartment — making vermicomposting a great option for city dwellers and anyone who doesn’t want or can’t have an outdoor compost pile. The fully revised 35th anniversary edition features the original’s same friendly tone, with up-to-date information on the entire process, from building or purchasing a bin (readily available at garden supply stores) to maintaining the worms and harvesting the finished compost.

Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living Paperback – May 19, 2015
by Rebecca Louie 

The ultimate guide to individual- and community-scale composting in small urban spaces—with illustrations, expert tips, fun DIY projects, and much more

The Rodale Book Of Composting
by Grace Gershuny(Editor), Deborah L. Martin  (Editor)

This revised edition of The Rodale Book of Composting includes all the latest in new techniques, technology, and equipment. Gardeners know composting is the best way to feed the soil and turn food scraps into fresh produce, but even urbanites can get on board thanks to programs like compost pickup and citywide food waste initiatives—there’s no better way to reduce landfill waste (and subsequent emissions) and dependence on fossil fuels while nourishing the earth.

The Science Of Gardening - Botany For Gardeners 3rd Edition
by Brian Capon

What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes can be found in the bestselling Botany for Gardeners. Written in accessible language, this must-have guide allows gardeners and horticulturists to understand plants from the plant's point of view. Now in its third edition, Botany for Gardeners has now been expanded and updated, and includes an appendix on plant taxonomy, a comprehensive index, and dozens of new photos and illustrations.

How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do (Science for Gardeners)
by Linda Chalker-Scott  

Why do container plants wilt even when they’ve been regularly watered? Why did the hydrangea that thrived last year never bloom this year? Plant physiology—the study of how living things function—can solve these and most other problems gardeners regularly encounter. In How Plants Work, horticulture expert Linda Chalker-Scott brings the stranger-than-fiction science of the plant world to vivid life. She uncovers the mysteries of how and why plants do the things they do, and arms you with fascinating knowledge that will change the way you garden.

Decoding Gardening Advice: The Science Behind The 100 Most Common Recommendations
by Jeff Gillman & Meleah Maynard

Covering more than 100 universal gardening "dos and don'ts," Decoding Gardening Advice is the first book to provide gardeners with the real answers. Jeff Gillman, the bestselling author of The Truth About Garden Remedies, and Meleah Maynard back up every good recommendation with sound horticultural and botanical science. Decoding Gardening Advice is the first and only hard-hitting, evidence-based book that every gardener needs for definitive advice on everything from bulbs, annuals, and perennials to edibles, trees, and soil care.

Growing Food In A Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons From Desert Farmers On Adapting To Climate Uncertainty
by Gary Paul Nabhan & Bill McKibben

How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity

Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding."

Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide To The Soil Food Web, Revised Edition
by Jeff Lowenfels

This must-have guide is for everyone, from those devoted to organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy plants without resorting to chemicals.

Teaming With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide To Optimizing Plant Nutrition
by Jeff Lowenfels

Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener's perspective. Where Teaming with Microbes used adeptly used microbiology; Teaming with Nutrients employs cellular biology.

Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae (Science for Gardeners) Hardcover – January 11, 201
by Jeff Lowenfels  

“Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why Paperback – February 1, 2008
by Jeff Gillman 

Fearlessly conducting original experiments and harvesting wisdom from the scientific literature, horticulturalist Jeff Gillman assesses new and historic advice and reveals the how and why‚ and sometimes the why not‚ for more than 100 common and uncommon gardening practices. The results will surprise even experienced gardeners.

The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line Paperback – February 1, 2008
by Jeff Gillman

Gardening Myths and Misconceptions (3) (Wise Words) Hardcover – March 27, 2014
by Charles Dowding

The Informed Gardener Paperback – February 20, 2008
by Linda Chalker-Scott 

The Informed Gardener Blooms Again Paperback – Illustrated, January 7, 2010
by Linda K. Chalker-Scott

Pruning and Training, Revised New Edition: What, When, and How to Prune Paperback – March 7, 2017
by DK 

How to Prune Fruit Trees: Twentieth Edition
by Georgia Sales 

The New Seed-Starters Handbook
by Nancy Bubel

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
by Tracy Di-Sabato-Aust

Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for specific species and cultivars, on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and details on native plants and gardening for wildlife.

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening Paperback – January 2, 1998
by Louise Riotte 

Straw Bale Gardens Complete
by Joel Karsten

his new edition of Straw Bale Gardens Complete is the only book you need to get started with the revolutionary gardening method that has taken the world by storm. Written by Joel Karsten, the originator of Straw Bale Gardening, this exciting update contains detailed, start-to-finish instructions for growing vegetables in straw anywhere, plus many new ideas and projects, including how to set up a greenhouse for less than $100 that allows you to start seeds on top of heat-generating straw bale benches.

No Dig Organic Home & Garden: Grow, Cook, Use, and Store Your Harvest Paperback – June 21, 2017
by Charles Dowding (Author), Stephanie Hafferty  (Author)

The no dig approach works as well in small spaces as in large gardens. The authors’ combined experience covers methods of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, and includes recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably, and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method Hardcover – January 1, 1979
by Ruth Stout (Author), Richard Clemence (Author)

Can you really have a productive garden without plowing, hoeing, weeding, cultivating, and all the other bothersome rituals that most gardeners suffer through every growing season? "Sure," says Ruth Stout, a prolific author and writer at 80 years young. The reason that Ruth can throw away her spade and hoe and do her gardening from a couch is a year-round mulch covering, 6 to 8 inches thick, that covers her garden like a blanket.

The Mother Earth News Guide To Vegetable Gardening
by Mother Earth News

For years, millions of readers have turned to Mother Earth News for trusted advice on growing vegetables and fruits. The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardening harnesses decades of wisdom, bringing together all the indispensable techniques, complete growing guides, helpful tips, useful photographs, and inspiring illustrations for which Mother Earth News is known.

Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds: 50 Easy, Unique, and Useful Projects You Can Make with Common Tools and Materials Paperback – Illustrated, April 8, 2013
by Editors of Cool Springs Press 

A step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home.

The Vegetable Gardener's Book of Building Projects: 39 Essentials to Increase the Bounty and Beauty of Your Garden Paperback – Illustrated, April 17, 2010
by Editors of Storey Publishing

Black & Decker Complete Guide To Greenhouses & Garden Projects
by Philip Schmidt 

This book has plans and step by step for constructing and appointing greenhouses of several varieties, from glass-wall to hoophouse; some from kits, some from scratch; also includes plans and steps for other garden structures and accessories. Includes projects suitable to homes and landscapes of all types?"urban, suburban, and rural.

The Drunken Botanist
by Amy Stewart

This fascinating concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and mixology—with more than fifty drink recipes and growing tips for gardeners—will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party.

Plants Are Terrible People
by Luke Ruggenberg

Get ready for a mad dash through the weeds with this collection of essays, what-ifs, and uproarious nonsense. Along the way, you'll dodge undead conifers, Serious Gardeners in the wild, and one doozy of a water bill. Stick around, and you might just meet an extraordinary rutabaga named Kevin. Hold on for dear life with humorist and professional Plant Guy, Luke Ruggenberg, as he guides readers through a gauntlet of horticultural mischief, provoking laughter, commiseration, and rumination in turn. Make it through, and you'll never look at the garden the same way again.

Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families Paperback – March 1, 1996
by Michael J. Caduto  (Author), Joseph Bruchac  

Readers will learn about the relationships between people and the gardens of Earth, seed preservation, Native diets and meals, natural pest control, and the importance of the Circle of Life.

Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright Hardcover – April 4, 2017
by Gerit Quealy  (Author), Sumie Hasegawa Collins (Author), Helen Mirren (Foreword)

A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems.

The Homebrewer's Garden, 2nd Edition: How to Grow, Prepare & Use Your Own Hops, Malts & Brewing Herbs Kindle Edition
by Joe Fisher (Author), Dennis Fisher (Author) 

If you have a backyard, or even a sunny porch or balcony, you can grow your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains to enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your home-brewed beer — and ensure that you have the freshest, purest, best ingredients possible. Simple instructions from experts Joe and Dennis Fisher guide you through every step of the process, from setting up your first hop trellis to planting and caring for your herbs, harvesting and drying them, malting grain, and brewing more than 25 recipes specifically designed for homegrown ingredients.

How To Grow & Make Tea In The United States 2nd Edition
by Steve Lorch

The first modern book of its kind, How to Grow and Make Tea In the United States changed an industry and paved the way for a new generation of American tea growers. This second edition is sure to become the ‘Gold Standard’ by significantly expanding on every topic to give you an incredibly comprehensive yet easy-to-follow “How To” manual for growing and making tea.

Planting the Natural Garden Hardcover – Illustrated, November 12, 2019
by Piet Oudolf 

The original publication of Planting the Natural Garden ushered in a revolution in landscape design: the New Perennial Movement. Spearheaded by internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf, and incisively articulated by the late plantsman and designer Henk Gerritsen, it transformed private and public spaces with its emotionally resonant, naturalistic use of hardy perennials and grasses.

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Southern California (Regional Vegetable Gardening Series) Paperback – January 13, 2016
by Geri Galian Miller

There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening—what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are decisions based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Southern California, by regional expert Geri Miller, focuses on the unique eccentricities of California’s gardening calendar, which include extreme temperatures and low rainfall. The month-by-month format makes it perfect for beginners and accessible to everyone—gardeners can start gardening the month they pick it up.

The Timber Press Guide To Vegetable Gardening In The Pacific Northwest
by Lorene Edwards Forkner

There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening. What to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate, weather, and first and last frost.
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest is a growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest growing calendar.

• Controlling Himalayan Blackberry in Northwest
• Organic Slug Control Methods
• WSU Hortense- A compilation of fact sheets for managing common landscape and garden plant problems.
• Pest Control Library- The National Gardening Association

• The Butchart Garden Ltd.
• Ed Hume Seeds  - Ed Hume has been supplying the Pacific Northwest with seeds and gardening advice for decades.
• Nature's Garden Seed
• Nichols Garden Nursery - A family-owned business specializing in quality herb and vegetable seeds.
• Salt Spring Seeds
• Sow Organic Seed Company - Certified organic by the "Oregon Tilth Certified" program and recognized by the States of Oregon and California.
• Territorial Seed Company  "Seed that GROWS west of the Cascades.".Vegetable, herb, and flower seeds.
• West Coast Seeds - A regionally-focused company with a demonstration and reasearch garden just south of Vancouver, Canada.
• Wild Garden Seed  All seed is Organically Grown at Gathering Together Farm along the winding Marys River on the edge of Philomath, Oregon. All of this seed is open pollinated, untreated, germ and vigor tested in living soil mix, and well cleaned. These varieties have proven themselves popular and profitable in farmer's markets locally and in fine restaurants on both coasts. Many of these same seeds are for sale in the other catalogs that they supply, but this is the only source for the entire commercial collection of Wild Garden Seed from Gathering Together Farm, organically certified since 1987.

• Western Cascade Fruit Society    members are aspiring hobby orchardists and backyard fruit growers. The primary objective is to bring together new and experienced fruit growers who will promote the science, cultivation and pleasure of growing fruit bearing trees, vines and plants in the home landscape.
• Washington State University Fruits Page- Downloadable free eBooks
• Fruit Gardening Guide- The National Association of Gardenin

• HerbGardening.com 
• Herb Gardening Guide-  The National Gardening Association

• Bird Web  Seattle Audubon’s Guide to the Birds of Washington State
• Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
• Creating a Hummingbird Garden (pdf)
• Attracting Hummingbirds

• Beneficial Insects, Spiders, and Other Mini-Creatures in Your Garden  Published by Washington State University Extension. This manual provides strategies to encourage beneficial insects, spiders, and mites to visit and stay in your garden landscape, and set up defense lines against the troublesome herbivores.
• Raising Mason Bees

• Designing for Wildlife  A compilation of suggested guidelines for making your landscape more wildlife friendly by PlantNative. These guidelines promote the essential habitat elements of food, cover, water, and places to raise young.
• Wildlife in the Garden  By Idaho Landscapes & Gardens, University of Idaho Extension. Gardens can be alive with songbirds and beneficial insects and many are visited by deer, rabbits, raccoons, skunks, voles, and even the occasional snake. On this page, you’ll find information to help you decide just how “wild” you’d like your garden to be and how to...
• Creating Your Own Healthy Habitat Chapter 3, Audubon At Home in Seattle : Gardening for Life by National Audubon Society and the Seattle Audubon Society (2003). This chapter focuses on how to design a garden that will attract birds. It also includes a plant list.
• Garden for Wildlife – Making Wildlife Habitat at Home
  By National Wildlife Federation. How to attract birds, insects, and amphibians. How to build houses/nests for bats, bees, and birds. How to create a neighbor and wildlife friendly backyard.
• Attracting wildlife to your backyard By Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. This website provides information on how to create a backyard habitat.

• Sortuculture-   is a three-day outdoor festival that celebrates the best parts of Pacific Northwest outdoor living. Hosted in the seaside city of Everett, WA, Sorticulture is the premier festival for garden art, local plants and flowers and handmade outdoor products. Sorticulture is free to attend.
• Skagit Valley Tulip Festival  is one of the destination events for the Pacific Northwest, held from April 1-30, celebrating millions of tulips bursting into bloom.
• Northwest Flower and Garden Show  with over 20 display gardens, more than 90 free seminars and workshops, and thousands of treasures in the garden marketplace. The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is the best annual event to gather ideas and inspiration for beautiful living spaces. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting to dig in the dirt, there’s something for everyone!

• or fruit?  Online Tomato Vine- Everything you want to know about tomatoes!
• Washington State University Vegetable Gardens Page Downloadable, free eBooks
• Vegetable Gardening-  Texas A&M University

• Growing Vegetables Gardening Guide for Beginners- The National Gardening Association.

• Sunset Magazine
• Horticulture (hortmag.com)
• Spore Prints Monthly newsletter of The Puget Sound Mycology Society
• HerbalGram The Journal of the American Botanical Council
• Better Homes and Gardens
• Birds & Blooms
• Fine Gardening
• American Journal of Botany
• Journal of Environmental Horticulture
• Martha Stewart Living  Garden Section
• Gardeners World Magazine
• Arboriculture and Urban Forestry  Peer reviewed research
• Pacific Horticulture