“I love that there are surprises around every corner in the stumpery. A favorite is the epiphytic Pyrrosia, a spreading evergreen fern with leathery olive-green fronds, that now grows among the exposed tree roots.” Our Assistant Nursery and Retail Sales Manager, Emily Joseph, sat down with Robin Sutton Anders with Veranda Magazine to share the […]
By RSBG Nursery Manager & Assistant Curator, Atsuko Gibson Rhododendron Potting Media The Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden is always on the lookout for the best potting media for species rhododendrons. After conducting numerous experiments with various soil types and ratios, we’ve settled on our current mix: 30% small lava rock and 70% fine bark. Visitors […]
By RSBG Horticulturist and Assistant Curator Will Clausen While December might be dark, often damp, and sometimes chilly, these characteristics make it perhaps the most atmospheric time of year in the garden. At its best, December is truly dramatic. Wisps of fog wending through the conifers, or entirely enveloping the garden creates an eerie […]
By RSBG Assistant Nursery Manager Emily Joseph November, the month when even the drive along Weyerhauser Way invites you into the garden through a tunnel of deciduous color intermixed among a backdrop of evergreens. Native big leaf maples (Acer macrophyllum), vine maples (Acer circinatum), and black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) are ablaze in shades of yellow, […]
By RSBG Horticulturist and Assistant Curator Will Clausen October is here, and by now, the days are getting short, the sky cloudy and often heavy with rain, and in the garden, we start to see colors popping up where before everything was green. The month of fall color is finally upon us, a time of […]
By RSBG Assistant Nursery Manager Emily Joseph The sun-drenched days of summer have passed, ushering in cooler temperatures and welcome rain showers as the seasonal shift from summer to fall sneakily slides into view. Early signs of deciduous foliage gathering sugars and producing anthocyanins and carotenoids have begun (those red, orange, and yellow pigments that […]
