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Stunning Spring Colors Start with Fall Bulbs

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 sure to find a spot in your yard that gets […]
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My Continuing Deer Adventures

It seems that deer prefer leaves, buds, or flowers of different plants and for sure they do not really care if the plant is labeled “deer resistant.”  My “rare” wild tulips were marked deer resistant. BUT, in the early spring, when they were only four inches high, all the leaves went into a “deer salad.”  […]
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Beat the Deer

The deer and I are in a face-off, and my garden stands in the balance. I have been preparing for this for some time. I left my beautiful 15+-year garden in Renton behind for the sandy perch on Lake Menard, which is now my home. Today, I am at the same place I was so […]
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Meet the Deer

Ocean Shores deer are legendary. They are a frustration not only to gardeners, but to anyone who drives around here.  But there is, no denying that they are beautiful, and a unique addition to our town. Who isn’t charmed by those little spotted Bimbi’s, who just happen to be the worst offenders?  They munch away, […]
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Come Visit Ocean Shores’ Community Garden

As anyone who has tried to coax a flower to bloom or a tomato to ripen in Ocean Shores knows, we have a difficult climate for gardeners.  We average 75 inches of precipitation a year (that’s twice what Seattle gets!) with just three inches falling in July and August combined.  Our USDA hardiness zone is […]
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Garden, Sea, and Art

Ocean Shores is a small but ecologically varied place.  Just six miles long, the city, encompasses at least eight different ecosystems, each with its own mini-climate, soil conditions, and plant life.  To complete this thought, these ecosystems are open saltwater, ocean beaches, tidal salt marshes, freshwater ponds and canals with their shorelines, deciduous and conifer […]
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