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Rainy Side Gardeners at rainyside.com is dedicated to the Pacific Northwest gardener. Growing guides, articles, and many other features help those who garden west of the Cascades in the maritime climate of British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington.
 
Sue Barrett

Sue Barrett
hello, moving to Ocean Shores Wa. looking for sites that will help me choose plants for my new place. We will be living there during the months of May through part of Nov. This is a new house with no landscaping whatsoever and have no idea what is complimentery to this area. Love the area though and would like to s...tart out with low maintenance plants. Also, we have a dog whichg limits some planting. (She is not a digger just not used to plants )Read More

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RSG is a good site for Northwest specific advice. There is a forum you can join with many savvy gardeners that love to help others. You will have to factor in how close you are to the water the salt in the air and wind needs to be factored in to what will thrive.

We have a beautiful native honeysuckle shrub that thrives in coastal environments, ... Read MoreLonicera involucrata, you can view it on our new sister site, Washington Wildings at http://washingtonwildings.com/plants/Lonicera_involucrata.html, still under construction but will soon be finished. It's a tough plant that can stand up to salt air and you can protect it while its young with a barrier, until it is big enough to withstand dog abuse.
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Rainy Side Gardeners Gift idea for the gardener on your list: Tickets for the Northwest Flower and Garden show. Throw in limo service to and from the show and you will be a hero. Ok maybe not the limo, but definitely the tickets! Early bird tickets go on sale November 27 for 16.00.

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Rainy Side Gardeners Give Wicked Plants as a Halloween gift to your favorite gardener. It will scare the garden clogs right off their feet.

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Join bestselling author Amy Stewart as she takes on Mother Nature's most appalling creations. Her new book, Wicked Plants, is an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Drawing ...
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Rainy Side Gardeners The flannel bush listing is now up in the Plant Gallery.

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A beautiful choice shrub for the drought garden in the Pacific Northwest.
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Rainy Side Gardeners The show will go on. Update on the coming Northwest Flower & Garden Show, Feb 3-7, 2010.

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The line up of speakers, display gardens and exhibitors is a promise to gardeners that spring is nearly here.
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It does get expensive, but ways to circumvent the costs--buy the early bird tickets and carpool with a group of gardening fiends or ride the bus.
October 23 at 11:11am
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Just realized the typo. Fiends=friends, but fiends will do too!
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Saffronia Baldwin

Saffronia Baldwin Thank you so much for mentioning my blog! That is so kind of you. I love gazebos and will try to scout up some more to post. Saffronia at www.designlikethepros.com

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Randy Vrieling

Randy Vrieling What a Find!! Great site.

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Rainy Side Gardeners Here are some unusual but exciting gazebo designs for all styles of gardens. http://www.designlikethepros.com/2009/09/gazebos-and-other-outdoor-hideaways/

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How do professional designers get such great results? Read this interior design blog and you will find out the answers. Editor Saffronia Baldwin, along with guest designers, will share the secrets that many design magazines don't tell you. ...
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Rainy Side Gardeners If you are on or near Kitsap County take a tour of the Albers Botanical Garden in Bremerton. Say hello to my friend Phil, who will be helping with the tours, http://kitsap.wsu.edu/alber/

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Kitsap Community and Agricultural Alliance
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Rainy Side Gardeners It's
bulb planting time and even Doonesbury comic strip gets into the act
and the bulb descriptions through their eyes, brings a chuckle.

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"Has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity."-- Rep. Trent Franks, on Obama
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Rainy Side Gardeners We
are back to having the Flower contest, try your hand in identifying
October's flower. If you get it correct you will be entered into the
drawing for a gift certificate from Joy Creek Nursery.

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So many write us and say how much fun they have, while learning the plant names.
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Rainy Side Gardeners We
are back to having the Flower contest, try your hand in identifying
October's flower. If you get it correct you will be entered into the
drawing for a gift certificate from Joy Creek Nursery.

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Rainy Side Gardeners Our latest pick for the gardener's bookshelf.

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The pick of the litter.
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Rainy Side Gardeners Announcing the winner of our Guess this Flower contest. Also we stumped our savvy gardeners with June's flower. The answer is here, if you are still wondering what it was.

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Announcing our winner, who receives a $75.00 gift certificate from Joy Creek Nursery.
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Rainy Side Gardeners Noxious Aquatic Weeds: What are They and Why Should I Care? Come learn all about invasive plants that are threatening our shoreline
ecosystems. This workshop is designed to teach you how to identify
these noxious invaders and how you can play a role in preventing
shoreline habitat destruction. Two sessions being offered, look under Workshops and Classes.

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