GARDENER'S READING ROOM
The Art of Gardening

Peonies Rule!
With a little planning, you can have peonies in bloom for at least a few months in your yard. Read more.

Trees for Urban Gardens
Selecting trees for urban gardens can be challenging...the following little trees can create a big impact! Read more.

Naturally Native
Want a Northwest look for your garden along with low maintenance, good disease resistance, shelter and food for wildlife, all topped off with beauty and color? Go Native! Read more.

Roses for 2010
Growers come up with so many amazing colors, blossom types, and fragrances each year that I try to extricate the "best of the best" and bring them to Sky each season. Read more.

Terrariums, Conservatories, Bottle and Dish Gardens & the Plants that Love Them... part I, Tropical Terrariums
Terrariums are popular - again! Traditionally, a terrarium is an unheated (usually glass) enclosure with a lid in which medium/low light tropical plants are grown. Read more.

Fall Color for Northwest Gardens
In autumn, as our gardens prepare for winter, new possibilities emerge, drawing our attention to foliage color and bark texture. Read more.

Year-Round Container Style
It's a good time to look at longer-term planning for making your plants and planters look great all year round. Read more.

Fragrant Plants for Mother's Day
Nothing better expresses love than perfume caressing the air.... Here are some of our favorite fragrant plants for you to show your love for Mom! Read more.

Containers: Year Around Beauty and Color
May is a perfect time to start the container process. Read more.

Beautiful Bulbs
February is when the summer-flowering bulbs start arriving at Sky Nursery...Read more.

Put the RIGHT PLANT in the RIGHT PLACE
If you want an easy maintenance garden, make the right choices when you buy plants this spring. Read more.

Winterizing Your Garden for Wildlife
It's a cold, slate grey winter day with a warm fire burning in your fireplace, a cup of hot tea and plate of cookies by your chair,...Read more.

Container Makeover a la Sky
Did our cold, wet spring and the hot days of July put your pots on a downward roller-coaster ride? ... If you feel your containers need a make-over, this new season brings you many choices for exciting change. Read more.

Autumn Gardens - Feast for the Eyes
Autumn in the garden can be just as colorful as spring and summer and doesn't deserve a reputation as an "off season". Read more.

Gardening beneath Trees
Large trees are valuable in many ways as part of our landscapes....So, how does a gardener plant wisely beneath these large trees? Read more.

The Fun Art of Growing Trees... In Pots
With the continued clear cutting of land to build more homes and with the shrinking of lot sizes, the problem of how to re-tree your garden becomes a conundrum. Read more.

Easy Bonsai
A large part of successful gardening is choosing the right plant. The same holds true when picking out plant material for bonsai training. Read more.

Put The Right Plant... In The Right Place
Do you have plants that dwindle in the shade?
Are your plants burnt in the sun? Read more.

Using Indoor Plants Outdoors
Practically every magazine or column that has anything to do with gardening has touted the indoor plant as a wonderful way to add variety, color and texture to the outdoor container in summer. Read more.

Bonsai: Getting Started
Bonsai is a fun and rewarding hobby, but as with any hobby, a little research can make the difference between success and failure in your introduction to this ancient and beautiful art form. Read more.

EXTREME Rhododendrons
Most rhododendrons ever bred thrive in Puget Sound conditions...here are a few of our favorite best-performing "extreme rhododendrons." Read more.

The Performing Plant Palette!
Summer blooms gracefully bow after their final shows of color fade, only to introduce the palette of performance from our ever-changing deciduous trees and shrubs. Read more.

Choosing Concrete Statuary
When you mention the words " concrete statuary" what typically comes to mind? Read more.

Fall Garden Remodel
Everyone needs to move the furniture every once in a while. In the garden, fall is the best time to rearrange the furniture. Read more.

Best Clumping Bamboos for Specific Situations
Want a unique Mother's Day gift? Here are BooShoot Gardens owner Jackie Heinricher's recommendations for the TOP CLUMPING BAMBOOS. Read more.

Gardening in a Pot
Gardening in containers can release your inner creative genius. You can try the offbeat, the traditional, the Zen, and the wow! Read more.

Water Features
When envisioning a garden design it's important to have a focal point to draw the eye to a remote corner or to make you want to venture further in. Read more.

7 Easy Steps to a Pondless Water Feature
Would you like the sight and sound of water in your landscape, but you aren't really a "fountain" person and you don't want a pond? Read more.

Primroses
As the bleakness of winter hovers over the Puget Sound, even the most dedicated gardeners avoid working outdoors....Read more.

Color Punch with Under Plantings
This time of year, flower power has diminished if not completely abated. The other day I was using red, coral, and yellow twig dogwoods in a display, so I started looking for companion plants that would draw attention to those colorful twigs....Read more.

Strolling through the Late Winter Garden
So I've mulched the flower beds, pruned my fruit trees and shrubs….If, like me, you don't want to wait until April to trek back outside,here's a short list of plants that will help jump-start spring in your own yard...Read more.

Change Can Be... Good?
I love change, the changing of the seasons that is...I could go on and on about the many plants available for fall color...Read more.

Berried Treasures
Fall brings with it the turning of leaves to dazzle our senses... Berried plants have long been a source of visual pleasure during our brief winter. Read more.

Fabulous Fashions for Fall!
Has your garden been a flurry of frolicsome color - up until now? Read more.

Hydrangeas
If roses are the royalty of the summer garden, hydrangeas are at least their top courtiers. In fact, they could very well instigate a coup. Read more.

Plants of Interest for 2006
Every year we see new plant introductions - often accompanied by a media blitz. This stirs our appetite for the new and unusual. The question is, how do we know they will work for us? Read more.

Contained Elegance: Trees and Shrubs for the Large Planter
Last Skylights, we talked about vertical solutions for limited space. The next step is to talk about the most limited space of all: a single container! Read more.

Daphne's Allure ...
Daphnes are intriguing plants with a reputation for being finicky. This may be a little deserved, but once you understand their requirements, Daphnes can brighten almost any garden. Read more.

Vertical Solutions
A common topic among visitors to Sky Nursery of late is trying to garden in a small and often narrow space. Read more.

Trees for the Urban Eden
A goodly number of us are now faced with less area in which to develop our own little paradise. Shrinking lot sizes, gardening restricted to containers on a deck….Read more.

Color for the Cool Months
One of the great things about living in the Northwest is our year round greenery. Read more.

Grade Your Garden
Back to school time for kids is also "grading" time for gardeners. If winter is the time to dream of and plan your perfect garden, fall is the time to fill out the report card on the garden you have. Read more.

Naturalizing Bulbs
A grassy plot so thick with camassia, from a distance it looks like a lake... a hillside golden with daffodils... silver and green cyclamen foliage carpeting the ground under bare winter shrubs... snowdrops and crocus popping up unexpectedly.... Read more.

Where are your Geraniums?
Oh, you mean pelargoniums! That's the Latin name for everyone's favorite large-headed, summer blooming flowers. Read more.

Japanese Maples
Watch out! Japanese Maples can become an obsession. On the other hand, creating such beauty in your yard will bring such peace… Read more.

Try a Twist
Do you want a hardy, drought-tolerant tree that will catch the eye in every season? Read more.

Contain Yourself
Spring at Sky brings a lot of activity and excitement as our space fills with fresh nursery stock, perennials, houseplants, annual color… and containers of all sorts and styles. Read more.

Stop Mowing... Start Stepping with Stepables
Have you heard the word about our line of STEPABLE ground covers? Read more.

Onward and Upward with Vines
If you have limited ground space in your small garden, why not take advantage of vertical space by using climbing vines? Read more.

Summer Flowering Trees
Spring is awash with color. Bulbs bursting out everywhere, rhodies and azaleas in every corner…. Read more.

Think Spring
Close your eyes and visualize flowers of many colors, blooming bright in your garden….open your eyes and wake up…it's still winter. Read More.

Hellebores Are Here!
We have an abundant assortment of the unique and wonderful Hellebore in stock. Many of our plants are displaying plump buds, ready to burst into bloom. Read More.

Bare Root to Beauty
It's still wet out, cold and sometimes even frozen, but Sky's employees are hard at work getting our stock ready for spring. Read More.

Flowering Cherries . . . Aristocratic Symbol of Spring
Nothing heralds the awakening we call spring more than the glory of Flowering Cherries. Read More.

Winterizing Your Garden
You can't prevent all damage, but a little work in the fall will really help your garden withstand most of what winter throws at us. Read More.

Fall Magic
Our summer days are coming to an end - as are, most likely, the beautiful pots you created at the beginning of this glorious season. Read More.

Container Gardening 101
Gardeners, regardless of how much space we have, grow plants in pots for convenience, portability, and audacity, just to see if something will grow. Read More.

Autumn Glories
Remember driving home one crisp fall evening and being stunned by the glorious foliage in a neighbor's yard? Read More.

The Tropical Look - Outdoors or In
Mention "the tropics" and exotic images come to mind - soft and gentle breezes, warm rain, sun, and large, lush, vibrantly colored plants. Read More.

Basket Stuffers are Here!
One of the true delights of summer is to sit on your deck or patio and enjoy the beauty of the blooms cascading from your hanging baskets and pots. Read More.

Beyond Laurel - How to Create Privacy without a Green Wall
We hear it in the nursery every day - "I need to screen out my neighbor's ugly garage/house/RV/dead cars/all of the above"… "so I need something that grows fast to exactly 8', is evergreen, drought tolerant, low maintenance... oh yeah, and cheap!" Read More.

Practical & Beautiful Bamboos for Puget Sound
Bamboos have a tropical reputation, yet many varieties do superlatively in the Puget Sound region. Sky stocks hardy varieties - some sun-lovers, some shade; some giant. Read More.

Flashy Plants for 2004
The wait is over for some spectacular species. In 2004 Sky is proud to offer a broad selection of new varieties. Read More.

Conifer Container Gardening & Companion Planting
Did you know that some of nature's most beautiful plants are actually happy mistakes? Read More.

Mother's Favorites
Spring is the period of rebirth. What better time to celebrate Motherhood? Read More.

A Touch of the Tropics at a Temperate Zone Home
I explained that her problem was not that unusual; many folk long for the exotic, the lure of another continent, a place far away. Read more.

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