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Bamboo: Is it for you?

Is Bamboo for You? If you love bamboo, be a good neighbor and understand how to select, grow, and maintain the plant. FacebookPinEmail Subscribe to the Blog > By Kay Torrance, Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardener Bamboo is alternatingly loved and hated by home gardeners. Typically, gardeners are firmly planted in one camp or…

Garden Tours

succulents on log

Creating and appreciating a garden is a dynamic, creative process that benefits from inspiration. Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest are fortunate to have access to many garden styles and a wide variety of plant combinations at gardens that are open to the public – all within range of a day trip from Skagit Valley.

Hummingbirds

hummingbird and purple flower

Our resident Anna’s and migrating Rufous hummingbirds are an important part of our ecosystem helping control insects are great pollinators.

Vegetable Seed Selection

Use this guide to make strategic selections when choosing vegetable seeds for planting your 2025 garden.

The Winter Garden

grasses catching sunlight in winter

This winter, look at your garden’s potential and where you can contribute to its winter beauty by adding a tree, shrub, or grasses.

Growing Figs

Enjoy the sweet, aromatic flavor of homegrown figs in the Pacific Northwest with these select varieties.

Drying Herbs

Capture the seasonal flavors by preserving fresh herbs. Get started drying, freezing, dehydrating and enhance your meals deep into the winter.

Hypertufa Containers

small plants growing in rock container

Alpine gardening enthusiasts have found a solution to recreate the beauty they see in the alpine regions by using hypertufa containers

Gardening for Wildlife

Explore the benefits of using keystone plants to create a wildlife-friendly ecosystem in your own garden.

Pollinators

Learn about pollinators and open your eyes to the beauty and intricate connectivity of nature. As gardeners, we can make choices that will enhance or inhibit pollinators.

Plant Spring Blooming Bulbs Now

Master Gardener Jessamyn Tuttle explores the many wonderful bulbs which, if planted now, will bloom as early as late January.

Seed Saving 101

Master Gardener Sheri Rylaarsdam shares the fun of getting started saving and sharing seeds from your garden.

Discovery Garden Open House June 24, 2023

Join us for a day of discovery and learning at the Skagit Master Gardener’s Discovery Garden in Mount Vernon