Category: Gardening Miscellany

  • Photographing the Leaves of Fall: with Saxon Holt (Book Giveaway!!)

    Photographing the Leaves of Fall: with Saxon Holt (Book Giveaway!!)

    If you’ve been reading North Coast Gardening for any amount of time, you’ve heard me rave about the photography of Saxon Holt. He’s a garden photographer whose work has totally changed how I approach taking pictures, not only of plants and gardens but of other subjects as well. Because according to him, a photograph of a…

  • 2015 Gardening Trend Predictions

    2015 Gardening Trend Predictions

    Drumroll please! As we jump into a new year, it’s a North Coast Gardening tradition to take a wild and sometimes partially-accurate stab at guessing the hottest trends in the upcoming year, if only so that we can all look back at the end of said year and have a laugh. Fun, right? Let’s jump…

  • Monday Miscellany: Autumn Colors Year-Round, Edible Garden Designs, and Great Book Deals

    Monday Miscellany: Autumn Colors Year-Round, Edible Garden Designs, and Great Book Deals

    The best articles and ideas from around the web, curated by North Coast Gardening. Fall colors year-round. Though I’m usually a fan of cool colors like blues, silvers and purples in the garden, there’s something about the fiery tones of fall which makes me feel extra enthused about plants with cinnamon, orange, and golden foliage…

  • Monday Miscellany: Drunken Fried Apple Products, Forcing Bulbs, and more

    Monday Miscellany: Drunken Fried Apple Products, Forcing Bulbs, and more

    The latest and greatest from around the web. . . curated by North Coast Gardening. Drunken. Apple. Fritters. Yeah. The Prudent Garden has a tutorial and recipe up on making these delicious lumps of heavenly goodness. Go, eat, be happy. Your diet can start again tomorrow. (A non-alcoholic version from Julie’s Garden Delights here). How…

  • Monday Miscellany: Spigarello, Contemporary Design, Black Flowers and More

    Monday Miscellany: Spigarello, Contemporary Design, Black Flowers and More

    The latest and greatest from around the web. . . curated by North Coast Gardening. The new kale? Root Simple wants you to try Spigarello, which they say has the mild, sweet flavor of broccoli leaves. If (like my mom) you find the spicy flavor of kale a little much, this nutritious green might just…

  • Local Christmas Gifts for Humboldt County Gardeners

    Local Christmas Gifts for Humboldt County Gardeners

    Hellebore photo courtesy of Skagit Gardens What’s that, my fellow Humboldtians? Time’s gotten away from you yet again, with no gifts purchased and only a short time until Christmas? Never fear, I’ve got you covered. I called up a variety of local shops to find out which gift they’d most recommend for the gardener on…

  • What I’ve Been Doing (When I Haven’t Been Here)

    It’s been a busy summer with a lot of new adventures, and while I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like, if you’ve kept a sharp eye out you’ve probably seen me in some other publications. If you’ve been missing your North Coast Gardening fix, here are a few of my favorite articles…

  • Cat Stuck in a Tree? Call These Tree-Climbing Heroes

    Cat Stuck in a Tree? Call These Tree-Climbing Heroes

    Cat stuck in a tree? We all have a friendly mental picture in our minds of a firefighter rescuing a stranded cat from the topmost branches of a tree, but the reality is that most fire departments won’t even attempt to rescue a cat due to liability issues, and the concern that a call involving…

  • Monday Miscellany: Prince Harry’s Chelsea Garden, Fine Foliage, Modernica Giveaway and a New Blog to Follow

    Monday Miscellany: Prince Harry’s Chelsea Garden, Fine Foliage, Modernica Giveaway and a New Blog to Follow

    Kicking things off, the UK’s Daily Mail reports on the Chelsea garden show display that was codesigned by Prince Harry in honor of his charity work with AIDS orphans. While I hardly think of the partying royal ginger as a landscape designer, and would give most of the credit to the garden’s creator Jinny Blom,…

  • Monday Miscellany: Cost of Landscaping, Fave Shrubs, and Fine Landscape Maintenance

    Springtime is always good for gardening, but it’s often not so great for finding rad articles around the web, since most of us gardeners are out and about actually gardening, rather than talking about it. I know that’s been the case for me! But a few sites have bucked the trend and put out some…

  • 2013 Garden Trends Prediction

    While most trend reports depict their trends as being the next new thing, really most trends come from ideas that have been around for a while, and have just been gathering steam. There’s very little that’s new in the world, especially in something as connected to natural rhythms as gardening, but everyone brings their own…