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Our Favorite PNW Tomatoes for 2025
Tomato season is fast approaching at Sky Nursery, and if you’re looking for some fresh ideas for what to plant this year, our staff has pulled together a few recommendations for you. Read on below to learn more, but if you’re just not satisfied with the ten we’re sharing here, you can find our complete…
Read MoreUSDA Zone Changes – How Does this Affect NW Gardeners?
On November 15, 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an update to its Hardiness Zone Map, moving the Shoreline/North Seattle area from Zone 8b to 9a. The map has long been a useful tool for gardeners to determine which perennial plants are likely to survive their region’s coldest temperatures. Zones are assigned…
Read MoreCamellias – Types & Great Varieties at Sky for 2024
The camellia is the acknowledged queen of Seattle’s winter gardens. Camellias can grow into regal and commanding twenty-foot shrubs if you give them the room and time, or you can keep many varieties in containers or constrained spaces as a more modest accent plant. Their glossy evergreen foliage is attractive year-round in the landscape, but…
Read MoreNew Rose Varieties – 2024
Looking to buy a rose from Sky Nursery? Once a year in February, we receive HUGE deliveries of over 300 rose varieties, including David Austin, Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Grandiflora, Shrub, Climbing roses – and more! This year, we have several exciting varieties we haven’t carried before, some new to the industry and others new to…
Read MoreGardening for Dinosaurs: Paleozoic Plants for Today
When you think of a classic garden, you might picture an impressionist painting. But let’s try turning the clock just a little further back… or, you know, like 300,000,000 years back. While the trilobites of the Paleozoic era and the overgrown chickens of the Jurassic may be long gone, some of the plants that dominated…
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