WE’RE GOING A little wild with this year’s Garden Party Game (which I made up), looking at how gardeners can create beautiful, Earth-friendly landscapes. Megan McManus grew up in the Northwest and ...

This week's garden column looks at the perks of growing native plants.

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

Salmonberry and wild roses are both lovely additions to property-edging hedges that protect gardens while supporting wildlife ...

There's a lot of buzz (ha) around native plants these days, largely because research has shown that they're incredibly important for pollinators, including bees. As a bonus to humans, native plants ...

Maybe you had a particularly pleasant afternoon watching bees forage from your squash flowers, or someone gave you a pot of mountain mint with the advice that it's a great native plant. You've come to ...