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Puget Sound Region
In-depth profiles, disease diagnostics, spray windows, and care schedules calibrated to this climate, this soil, and this growing season.
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Ground beetles (family Carabidae) are the largest predator group working your soil surface in the Puget Sound lowlands. They eat slugs and slug eggs, cutworms, crane fly larvae, and root maggots, and they do it year-round.
The six weeks after bloom are when next year's flowers are made. Here is why spring bulb foliage matters, what kills re-bloom, and how to design plantings so the ugly phase never bothers you.
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Understand the macroscopic anatomy of trunks, branches, and twigs: trunk taper and live crown ratio, branch collar and included bark, and the buds, nodes, and internodes that map next season's growth.
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How the vascular cambium builds wood and bark: xylem, phloem, sapwood, heartwood, growth rings, rays, reaction wood, and why bark damage is worse than it looks.
Read more →Seasonal scouting notes, spray timing updates, and the regional detail that national guides leave out. Written for Western Washington gardeners and landscape professionals.
Seasonal scouting notes, timing updates, and the regional detail that national guides leave out. Delivered when it matters.
Species selection, siting, and care for this climate.
Identification, timing, and management grounded in regional extension data.
Scouting, thresholds, and IPM for the pests that actually matter here.
A growing dataset of plants, diseases, and pests tracked for this region. Profiles deepen continuously as site data, phenology, GDD timing, and cultivar performance are verified from extension research and field observation.
Written by Chris Welch. Every recommendation on this site comes from someone who works with these plants in this climate, not a content team repackaging national data.
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