Inland Northwest Gardening

November 21, Spokane WA
The leaves are gone now, scattered all over the place by the winds. The pine needles are pretty much down out of the trees. At our house that means two over 50ish folks have to tag team cleaning out the gutters so they will drain and won’t be around for fire season next year. […]

November 11, 2008
Welcome to the blog of a rabid gardener who enjoys the challenge of gardening in a hot, dry, cold and wet climate - the Inland Northwest.  Those of us who garden in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana, eastern Oregon and interior British Columbia don’t quite get the mild rainy marine climate of the […]

Give indoor plants TLC they deserve
Pat Munts  /  Correspondent
First published in the Spokesman-Review, December 11, 2007

Houseplants need as much light as you can give them during the winter. (File/The Spokesman-Review)

Online resources
For more information on houseplants go to:
•http://extension.missouri.
edu/explore/agguides/hort
•http://ces.purdue.edu/
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The bright colors of the growing season have been replaced by the more subtle colors of the sleeping garden. Winter colors […]

This first appeared in the Spokesman-Review November 6, 2008

 Late last fall a friend sent me several bags of daffodil and tulips bulbs. I was thrilled because he is a well known bulb grower back east and has beautiful plants. The only problem was the ground was already frozen solid with little prospect of thawing enough […]