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In the garden: Le Tour des Plants

Although I wouldn't have picked the name myself, I have to admit it makes me grin just looking at it: Le Tour des Plants. Start your hybrid and bicycle engines running, my gardening friends, because...

Geri Larkin

/ September 3, 2008

Culture

No longer in the garden: pesky starlings

A hummingbird nest with two chicks. (Wikimedia Commons contributor <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMG_2377.JPG' target='_blank'>Miksmith</a>).

Geri Larkin

/ August 27, 2008

Culture

A tribute to eccentrics

Our garden writer shares why those who refuse to follow the herd can best teach us.

Geri Larkin

/ August 22, 2008

Environment

LEED-ing the way to sustainability

Seattle Central Public Library, Wikimedia Commons, user Moody75.

Louisa Gaylord

/ August 17, 2008

Culture

In the bamboo garden

(<a href='http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4587263_vWbUu#270481002_qJAsX' target='_blank'>Paul Vlaar</a>, Wikimedia Commons)

Geri Larkin

/ August 13, 2008

Culture

(Not) in the garden: bees

Northern California toyon (<i>Heteromeles arbutifolia</i>) in early winter, with fruit. (Splarka, Wikimedia Commons)

Geri Larkin

/ August 5, 2008

Culture

In the garden: your pain about Spain cured on the main

Skullcap. (Kurt Stueber, Wikimedia Commons)

Geri Larkin

/ August 5, 2008

Culture

In the garden: U-pick blueberries

(National Park Service)

Geri Larkin

/ July 21, 2008

Culture

Review: Faith and mental illness on Seattle's streets

Craig Rennebohm provides a refreshing look at compassion and caring for Seattle's outcasts in Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets (Beacon...

Louisa Gaylord

/ July 15, 2008

Culture

In the garden: mean girls

Aphids attacking a rose bud. (Wikimedia Commons, contributor Nvineeth)

Geri Larkin

/ July 14, 2008