"From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens – the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.”  ~ Katharine Sergeant Angell White ..read more

In this special holiday episode, we share our favorite gardening tools and products* perfect for gifting the gardeners in your life -- and yourself! *Disclosure: Some of these items were sent to us free to trial, but many we have repurchased on our own as well as for gifts for other gardeners. The gift ideas here are linked to an Amazon affiliate account, so if you click on them and order any, Washington Gardener Magazine gets a few pennies added to the account for the referral. Our full Amazon storefront is here. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 ..read more

This week has turned cold and we had some decent rains. We attempted to dig up some of the radishes, but they are still quite small so I'll leave them in for a bit longer. The Brassicas are growing well and next week intern Zachary will report on his experiences growing them. We'll cut back the Asparagus foliage and apply fresh wood chips to the pathways. Other than that, I think we can call the growing season officially over. Looking back on the year, it was a tough one. We had record heat and drought. The bugs were relentless and the rabbits/deer/rats/groundhogs were ravenous. We had some s ..read more

For our November 2024 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, we are giving away a delivery of up to 5 cubic yards of Bloom conditioner and a Bloom T-shirt from Bloom.     Give your trees, grass, plants, and flowers a boost with Bloom,® a soil conditioner rich in organic matter and nutrients made from Class A Exceptional Quality biosolids produced at DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.    To enter to win the gift certificate, send an email by 5:00pm on November 30 to WashingtonGardenerMagazine@gmail.com with “Bloom Soil” in the Subject line and in ..read more

The holiday season is here and I bet you have a gardener on your gift list, so we've updated our annual a Holiday Gifts for Gardeners ~ Top Gardening Gifts ~ 21+ Cool Gardening Gift Ideas. Here are the garden products I use almost every day. These are the tried-and-true work tools that make my garden grow, save my back from breaking, and generally make life a little easier. Buy a few for others, but also treat yourself! Disclosure: Some of these items were sent to us free to trial, but many we have repurchased on our own as well as for gifts for other gardeners. The gift id ..read more

  "The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love."  ~ Luther Burbank ..read more

In this episode, we talk with Serenella Linares, mycologist and Facility Director at Mount Rainier Nature Center, all about Lichens. The plant profile is on Blue Vervain and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events and this week's garden tasks in the What's New segment. We close out with the Last Word on Cultivating Chaos from Christy Page of Green Prints. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month!  See how at: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod ..read more

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kathy Jentz, WG Magazine (@wdcgardener) This week we finally got the Garlic planted (see the above link to the Instagram live we shared to watch me doing that). It flurried today and is now pretty cold out, so I'm assuming I'll be pulling out the Cosmos and Zinnias this weekend -- plus any leftover Holy Basil or other summertime herbs that I've left in. I will then cut back the big Dahlia flower stalks and leave their tubers in the ground -- giving them a layer of straw to insulate them for winter. The Brassicas continue t ..read more

 The November 2024 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine is out.   It is posted and archived online at:    https://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/nov24_wgmag_final?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ Inside this issue: ·         Stunning Stoke’s Aster ·         An American Potato Story ·         Does Grass Seed Go Bad? ·         Meet the Calluna Flower Truck ·         Great Gardening ..read more

“Oh, Autumn! why so soon Depart the hues that make thy forests glad; Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon, And leave thee wild and sad!” ~ William Cullen Bryant ..read more