Author: Tonie Fitzgerald
7 article(s) found by this author.
Bounty on the bluff
Fall 2005
The small farming community of Green Bluff lies nestled in the
foothills of Mt. Spokane. Its bucolic setting belies the fact that
it's just 15 miles north of Spokane. Take a meandering drive around
"the Bluff," and you'll pass by dozens of family ...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Farmers, Tourism
Plants of the Wild
Winter 2004
Tucked away in the heart of the Palouse is one of the best-known
native-plant nurseries in the West. Plants of the Wild Nursery in
Tekoa, Washington, grows and markets trees, shrubs, wildflowers,
and groundcovers throughout most of the western U.S...
Categories: WSU Extension
Tags: Gardening, Palouse
Gardening on the Palouse
Summer 2004
The area known to practically every Washingtonian as "the
Palouse" is one of six large grassland communities in North
America. The Palouse stretches from just south of Spokane to the
Snake River valley, near Moscow and Pullman. Today, it is a fert...
Categories: WSU Extension, Environmental studies
Tags: Horticulture, Palouse, Gardening
Pacific Northwest sagebrush steppe
Winter 2003
Though it is the most widespread of plant ecosystems in eastern
Washington, covering 24,000 square miles, the sagebrush-steppe is
probably the least understood, and therefore the least appreciated,
especially among gardeners. By nature, gardeners ...
Categories: Botany, Agriculture
Tags: Sagebrush steppe, Gardening, Eastern Washington
Living and gardening in the Pacific Northwest - Spring 2003
Spring 2003
Some gardeners work to change conditions in their yard to create
havens of greenery and blooms with plants that wouldn't grow there
otherwise. They amend the soil to suit plants' needs, they water a
lot during the summer, and they give added prote...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Gardening
Living and gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Winter 2002
In Washington State, it has been over 200 years since indigenous
peoples described where they lived as "the place where camas
blooms" or "the place where wild onions nod." In other parts of the
country, it has been even longer.Where Native America...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Gardening
Fall is the time to plant bulbs—but maybe not the ones you'd planned on
Fall 2002
Another approach to perennials is to go back to basics--native plants.
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Flowers, Gardening