Flora’s fave recipe for Turkey and Garden Veggie Soup. Yum!

Are you catching up on your garden reading this season as rain falls relentlessly from the sky? I have been doing some of this, mostly enjoying reading about brand new plants. Have you heard of deer-resistant wildflowers? High Country Gardens carries them, and they also have a mutitude of additional deer-resistant varieties. They have drought-resistant [...]

Karen Chapman, owner of Le Jardinet, met with me recently to chat about her upcoming classes during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Flora: Tell us about the classes you will teach at the NW Flower and Garden Show? Karen: I am both honored and excited to have been invited to present two seminars at [...]

We have a variety of birds in the Northwest and if you enjoy birds at all, you might also enjoy watching for them at each place you visit. Here at the coast, we of course have seagulls and crows. I also have a blue heron who loves to hang out by my fishpond (and also [...]

Dear Flora, I hear that the Northwest Flower and Garden Show catches a lot of attention in the media every year. Why is this? Curious Dear Curious, It’s a large show and successful because the team works very hard to make it a unique and quality experience each year. I think they should write a book [...]

Two squash recipes for you to enjoy this fall.

Flora’s recommended gardening and entertaining gifts

Flora’s Twitter friends have some great garden blogs. Check them out!

Healing Chinese Herbs to help with immunity, colds, flu and bacterial infection.

Part one of a series on healing Chinese herbs.