This Sunday may be the last time I give my mom a Mother’s Day fuchsia basket, my go-to gift for most of the past 35 years. It makes me sad. Nearly 93, Mom is moving into a retirement/assisted living ...

The second week of May is when nurseries are well stocked for Mother’s Day and gardeners face a multitude of decisions about what to plant and where to plant it. Get thee to a nursery and start ...

Near the end of June, tomato plants will need secure stakes as they reach for the sky and become heavy with fruit. Tomato cages may work for shorter growing plants called determinate varieties, but ...

SEATTLE — Fuchsias are popular in hanging baskets, but can also give plentiful splashes of color throughout your garden. Gardening guru Ciscoe Morris explains the secrets to making them thrive. If you ...

Question: Last spring, I bought a fuchsia basket that grew beautifully for the whole summer and fall. Now it is straggly and unattractive. Is it possible to make it beautiful again or should I just ...

Some questions are perennial (and that isn't a pun). One of them is how to plant a basket of 2-inch fuchsia starts and come up with one of those huge hanging baskets swinging with hundreds of blooms.

T hink of fuchsias and for most the imagination doesn’t travel farther than a Mother’s Day hanging basket. Resources Greater Seattle Fuchsia Society Meets second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at St.

Question for Dan Gill: I saw the most gorgeous fuchsias when I lived in the San Francisco Bay area, but years ago I was told that we couldn’t grow them here because it’s too hot. I just couldn’t ...

I grew up on the East Coast. It was too hot in the summer to really grow great fuchsia, but that doesn’t mean that my father didn’t try with some modicum of success. So by the time I came to Alaska, I ...

Near the end of June, tomato plants will need secure stakes as they reach for the sky and become heavy with fruit. Tomato cages may work for shorter growing plants called determinate varieties, but ...