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Season's Greenings

GROW’s new 2023 part game kicks off with a color recipe for the winter garden that’s as easy as 1-2-3 plants.

This year’s garden party game (that I just made up) is a mash up of plants, design, and color theory. Each season I’ll share a color recipe for Pacific Northwest gardens, striking 1-2-3 plant combinations for landscaping your plot or composing your pot. Whether you prefer following a recipe step by step or approach each formula as merely a starting place, I hope you’ll discover some delicious combinations. Let’s dig in.

It’s winter. It’s dark. It’s cold. Instinctively, we humans draw close to warmth and flames. Kindle a botanical bonfire with this trio by of hardy shrubs that ignite the winter landscape for months on end.

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GROW in The Seattle Times