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Western Washington
Plant profiles, disease identification, pest management, and seasonal care guides written for this climate, this soil, these conditions.
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If you track four numbers through the year, you can predict when your fruit trees will break dormancy, when the soil is warm enough to plant, whether your season is running ahead or behind, and how much solar energy your landscape is actually receiving.
Every fungal disease that hits your landscape needs the same thing you do: water. Understanding how water moves through your landscape, how much the atmosphere pulls back out, and when conditions favor the pathogens is the foundation of preventive plant health care.
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You already have one. That is the starting point for most conversations about Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) in Western Washington. It sits in your front yard, lines your street, anchors the...
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Two years ago, your contractor promised you the big Douglas-fir would be fine. The tree had shaded your house for forty years, and the remodel was necessary. You watched them work around it. No major...
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.
Searchable directories of plants, diseases, and pests tracked for Western Washington, with host data, susceptibility ratings, and management notes.
Written by Chris Welch, ISA Certified Arborist and Tree Risk Assessment Qualified. 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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