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In the Garden September 2016
By Peg Keenleyside There is a cycle to the gardening year: the rebirth of the early spring, the heady days of early summer flowers and shrubs, then on to the clamoring hot colors of late summer...
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By Rhiannon Allen In keeping with our recent focus on drought-tolerant plants, I’d like to discuss that beautiful ornamental member of the mint family, lavender (Lavandula). This is a small shrub...
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By Peg Keenleyside It’s that time of year again: fall clean-up in the garden. This is probably the most chore-like aspect of gardening (next to weeding) that you’ll encounter over the season. To get...
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By Rhiannon Allen Writing this letter each year affords the opportunity to reflect on what I want for next year’s gardening. This autumn has been hard work in the garden. Each fall, I remove expired...
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In the Garden: March 2017
By Peg Keenleyside Starting From Seed: Easy annuals to start from seed In these last months of winter, you are usually content to just curl up to flip through a few garden magazines, admiring all the...
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By Rhiannon Allen Is it spring yet? What a late start this year! Yet spring is inevitable, and the weather is warm enough to start spring tasks as the garden awakens from its slumber. Aside from...
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By Peg Keeleyside It was a wicked cold wet winter here in the Pacific Northwest, and my garden shows it. The big rosemary plant I had sheltered near my dryer vent is a goner. So is a large New Zealand...
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By Rhiannon Allen If your family is like mine, you eat salads year-round, but look forward to the special treat of the summer salad bowl. Gone are the restricted choices of store-bought lettuce. Here...
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In the Garden
By Peg Keenleyside “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives, it is the one most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin The Point Roberts Homegrown...
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In the Garden August 2017
By Rhiannon Allen This column has covered weeds before, but I’d like to cover a particular one in detail. Each year, the Point Roberts Garden Club fields questions about this pest. This year, they...
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In the Garden September 2017
By Peg Keenleyside September can be a time when your garden looks a little lackluster: the annuals you put out in May are looking like the party-goers who stayed too long at the wedding, many plants...
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By Rhiannon Allen What a peculiar weather year this has been. Most of us lost some plants – casualties of the severe winter, summer drought, or some other factor. We might have experienced a poor...
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By Peg Keenleyside I don’t consider myself in any way a tree expert, but over years of gardening, you pick up a few tips and start to develop your tree care know-how. Which, of course, I’m always happy...
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By Rhiannon Allen Dear Santa, First of all, thank you for last year’s presents! The transplant spade was put to work moving errant perennials and clearing narrow paths between rows of strawberry...
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By Peg Keenleyside Between visits to the gym this month to work off some of those holiday calories, I also seem to manage to start thinking about a plan for the year’s gardening: Am I going to start...
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By Rhiannon Allen Long ago, at the garden owners reception for a Point Roberts Garden Tour, I received a “Great Gardens of British Columbia” wall calendar donated by the Vancouver Sun’s garden...
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By Peg Keenleyside March, with its longer days and warming soil, is the month when the garden wakes up from its winter sleep. It’s the time when you want to get some tasks done to encourage all the...
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By Rhiannon Allen Planting season is upon us, once again bringing challenges in acquiring plants for our gardens. There are times when I miss being able to hop in the car and zip over to any of dozens...
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In the Garden: May 2018
Alstroemeria. By Peg Keenleyside This month’s garden column is all about having fun shopping for plants to brighten up your borders and decorating your outdoor rooms by adding color, scent and visual...
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In the Garden: June 2018
By Rhiannon Allen Point Roberts gardens vary dramatically in their configuration and size. However, a common design here on the Point and throughout North America is what I call the ‘front yard/back...
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