Peter Symcox

Free yourself from watering, weeding and worrying about your plants through the dry summer months.

When winter gloom has us down, the bright yellow bloom of winter jasmine is sure cheer us up.

Hybrid maiden grass (Miscanthus x giganteus) flourishes in moderately fertile soil that’s moist and well drained. The tallest of all...

Hybrid maiden grass (Miscanthus x giganteus) flourishes in moderately fertile soil that’s moist and well drained. The tallest of all...

Be that as it may, we now see them in many garden settings, particularly the woody daturas that are now...

Apart from the pleasure of their presence, other benefits birds confer on us sometimes go unremarked – until one comes...

Is there anything more exciting, I wonder, more challenging and certainly more rewarding, than the creation of a winter garden...

The phrase "from sea to sea" carries an special meaning when applied to our own horticultural and botanical aspirations -...

An interesting - and very dramatic - plant has begun to appear in our gardens. I refer to Echium wildpretii.

Likely everyone in the Pacific Northwest is familiar with the camellia shrub. Camellias bloom in the early part of the...

I feel perfectly sure that everyone in this part of the world is familiar with the camellia shrub, and what...

Also known as blue shrimp flower and blue honeywort, the Blue Cerinthe is particularly suitable for gardens in the Pacific...