Author: Dauna Koval

Pollinator Plants Help Garden Growth

Use Pollinator Plants to Encourage Beneficial Birds/Insects while Discouraging Harmful Pests: Pollinator plants bring the right critters into your garden to move pollen from one plant to another which is absolutely necessary for the formation of flowers and fruits.  In other words, for more veggies and a more productive garden, plant flowering pollinators.  Even just […]
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Coastal Greenhouses

Greenhouse Effect: Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again Some Other Day Gardening weather here is somewhat unpredictable, but generally on the cool side, dry in July, August, and September and more than wet the rest of the year.   Full on winter in Ocean Shores is really wet.  If you follow the Ocean Shores Monthly […]
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A New Beginning

Spring Forth at Garden by the Sea: Life, like our garden, is constantly changing. Each new season brings forth opportunities and challenges but our hope remains the same: ”May the sunshine always fall upon you. May the rains gently bless all you grow. May the seeds you plant grow strong and sturdy to harvest.  And […]
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Heaths and Heathers – Great Plants for our Marine Climate

Heather Provides Beauty Year Round: Heaths and Heathers, much like Lavenders, are another great set of plants for Ocean Shores.  They are deer and salt resistant, winter hardy, drought tolerant, evergreen, and low maintenance as well.  My sister, Renee Huenuqueo-Koval has a great collection, which she started 4 years ago, and I have just planted […]
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Horsetail Invasion – A Jurassic Period Plant!

Reverse Invasion of the Body Snatchers! ARG! … Horse Tails!!  They’re everywhere! It’s like every enemy or monster I ever thought of or had nightmares about has been spirited into a horsetail “body” and sent to my little plot of Ocean Shores to invade, choke, and destroy every plant or blade of grass that I […]
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Stunning Spring Colors Start with Fall Bulbs

Adding Fall Flower Bulbs For Beautiful Spring Gift Of Color: Adding flower bulbs to our fall gardens provide us a beautiful gift of color when temperatures start to warm in the spring, and often earlier.  Also, by selecting different varieties, you can have lasting color throughout the season!  Choose healthy bulbs when possible and be […]
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