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February 14, 2010
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New Book: Petal & Twig
- The first reviews on the new book are in! From Publisher's Weekly:
- "Open your eyes and keep it simple: those are two lessons Easton (The New Low Maintenance Garden), a garden writer and Huffington Post columnist, passes on from her own 40 years in the garden. When selecting and arranging flowers for bouquets, you needn’t spend a bundle buying a bundle of imported flowers.....Easton offers guidelines and principles....as well as a journal of possibilities through the seasons. The result....will be unique, local, imaginative, and inexpensive. Color photos throughout illustrate and inspire."
- Petal & Twig will be in bookstores on January 31, and will be available for the iPad, Kindle, and all those kinds of devices...
Featured Events
- Portland Yard, Garden and Patio Show Talk on February 17I'm the first up speaker on Friday morning, 11 a.m. at the Portland Convention Center for the Oregon Association of Nurseries big event. I'll show plenty of photos and talk about how to turn your entire garden (and neighborhood) into a cutting garden for uncomplicated little handheld bouquets in every month of the year...it's all about the simple joy of bringing nature indoors...
In the News
- Pacific Northwest Magazine's 2012 Garden Issue
An entire issue devoted to shelter in the garden... Read here about David Smith's modernist garden on Vashon, centered by a joglo; Ron Chew's backyard cabin on Beacon Hill, John and Toni Christianson's charming garden with greenhouse and outbuildings you've probably seen in their award-winning F&G Show gardens, and a personal little summerhouse on Whidbey Island that's a hand-hewn original, complete with king-size bed and pizza oven. - Planting art
Check out this interview in the Chicago Tribune on using art in the garden... - Tour the Gardens at the UW President's Mansion with Head Gardener Ray Larson
The gardens at Hill Crest in the Madison Park neighborhood, home of the University of Washington president, have been transformed over the past few years. Voiced by head gardener Ray Larson, this UW-made video features the art and seasonal beauty of this updated landscape. - Root Cellar and Recycling - The Swanson Garden on Whidbey Island
From a stylish root cellar, sheep dairy, and thriving vegetable gardens, the Swansons expansive property on Whidbey Island is both innovative and historic. - Sylvia Matlock's Cool Indispensables
Vashon Island's DIG Nursery is known for its cool and unusual plants - check out this list of plants that proprietress Sylvia Matlock wouldn't consider gardening without....
Read the Printed Word
The New Low Maintenance Garden
- Reviews Are In...."Over the years, countless books have espoused a low-maintenance approach to gardening. None have been as engaging, practical, or inspiring as this latest of Easton's contributions to the gardener's bookshelf,"
- Pacific Horticulture magazine, Jan/Feb/Mar 2010"A handy guide to a garden you can raise without a corresponding increase in your blood pressure..handsome and informative...."
- Metropolitan Home, Dec. 2009"A garden can be a consuming passion—at least until you feel it consuming you. When Val Easton found herself in that spot, she knew it was time to move on, this time to a gem of a low-maintenance garden she made for herself. It kept her passion for gardening alive and spawned a terrific book, The New Low-Maintenance Garden."
- Sunset's "Fresh Dirt" blog"This book is an invaluable addition to the garden library – destined to be a classic for many years to come."
- Garden Design OnlinePaperback copies of "The New Low Maintenance Garden" are in bookstores for $19.95, Timber Press is out of hardback copies ($29.95) but you can buy them on online at HomeStyle Book Club; more hardbacks will hopefully be available in bookstores early in 2010.
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- The banner and portrait photos were taken by Jacqueline Koch; all other photos by Val Easton unless otherwise credited.
Categories
- 'Annabelle' hydrangeas
- 'Westerland' rose
- abutilons
- agastache
- agave
- allium
- amaryllis
- Andy Goldsworthy
- annuals
- apples
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- artichokes
- artists' gardens
- autumn palette
- bachelor buttons
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- bamboo
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- bedding out
- bees
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- Bellevue Botanical Garden
- berries
- best of 2009 book award
- biennials
- birds
- birthday blog
- botanical art
- bouquets from the garden
- broccoli
- Buddha garden
- bulbs
- butterflies
- California Academy of Sciences
- camellias
- camperdown elm
- cardiocrinum
- Carex 'Rekohu Sunrise'
- carexes
- Carpenteria californica
- carrots
- Center for Urban Horticulture
- cherry trees (ornamental)
- children's gardens
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- climate change
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- Colocasia 'Mojito'
- colony collapse disorder
- color gardening
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- contest
- cooking from the garden
- Cool New Plants
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- deer resistant plants
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- Diggin' It
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- Euphorbia griffithii 'Fireglow'
- everyday bouquets
- fall clean-up
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- Favorite Plants
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- ferns
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- Flower Gardens
- flower shops
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- golden locust
- Great Dixter
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- green flowers
- green peas
- green roof
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- groundcovers
- gunnera
- Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
- Hardy Fern Foundation
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- heat wave
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- Hello & Welcome
- herbs
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- holiday decorating
- holiday displays
- hollyhocks
- Horticultural Happenings
- hummingbirds
- Hydrangea 'Lemon Daddy'
- hydrangeas
- Iochroma 'Royal Purple Queen'
- Italian purple artichokes
- Japanese forest grass
- Japanese gardens
- Japanese maples
- jasmine
- Jello Mold Farm
- June garden
- kale
- labyrinth
- labyrinths
- Langley, Washington
- lavender
- lemon verbena
- lettuces
- Leyland Cypress
- libertia
- Ligulara dentata 'Othello'
- Lilacs
- lilies
- Little and Lewis
- Lobelia tupa
- Log House Plants
- Low Maintenance
- low maintenance gardening
- magnolias
- mahonia
- Maintenance
- maples
- May Sarton
- Miller Horticultural Library
- modern gardens
- mountain ash tree
- mown grass labyrinths
- mulching
- music to garden by
- nasturtiums
- native plants
- New York Botanical Garden
- Northwest Flower and Garden Show
- Northwest native plants
- Northwest Perennial Alliance
- Now In Bloom
- nurseries
- nursery catalogs
- Oehme, Wolfgang
- olympic sculpture park
- onions
- Open Gardens
- orange flowers
- organic gardening
- Orienpet Lilies
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- ornamental grasses
- osage oranges
- Out & About
- outdoor furniture
- Oxydendron arboreum
- pared down pots
- Paris plants and gardens
- parking strip planting
- Paul's Himalayan musk rose
- pears
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- perennials
- phlox
- phormium
- pine trees
- plant collecting
- plant combinations
- Plant Sales
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- primroses
- pruning
- psychology of gardeners
- public horticulture
- pumpkins
- purple-podded peas
- Question & Answer
- radishes
- rainfall
- raised beds
- Rancho La Puerta
- Read This
- Robert Irwin
- Rosa 'Westerland'
- Rosa mutabilis
- rosemary
- roses
- Rudbeckia occidentalis 'Green Wizard'
- salad greens
- salsa verde
- sasanqua camellias
- scented gardens
- scented geraniums
- sculpture
- Seattle parks
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- shrubs
- signs of spring
- snowdrops
- soil improvement
- sourwood tree
- stumperies
- Styrax japonica
- Styrax obassia
- succulents
- sunflowers
- sweet peas
- The Art of Gardening
- The Late Show Gardens
- thunbergia
- tomatoes
- trash can containers
- tree peonies
- trees
- Trends report
- tropicals
- Tulips
- tulips
- urban chickens
- Vancouver B.C.
- variegated plants
- vases
- Vashon Island
- vegetable gardening
- verbascum
- vertical gardening
- Vines
- virtual gardens
- Wallflowers
- Washington Park Arboretum
- weeds
- weigela
- Wheaten terrier
- Whidbey Island
- winter damage
- winter gardening
- witch hazels
- yellow flowers
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