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Puget Sound Region
Plant profiles, disease identification, pest management, and seasonal care guides written for this climate, this soil, these conditions.
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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...
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...
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If you have ever wondered why your forsythia bloomed three weeks earlier than your neighbor's last year but only five days earlier this year, or why the extension service says to spray dormant oil...
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If you've driven along Washington highways or walked through coastal restoration sites in the Puget Sound region, you've likely seen Pacific Wax Myrtle. It's the dense, deep green shrub that screens...
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, 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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