Inspired by the public library's Seattle Reads program, our Grow writer asked a local expert: If everyone in our region could grow the same plant, what should it be?

The name Aucuba means blue tree and the species has attractive glossy bluish-green leaves and, as long as there is a male plant in the vicinity, produce showy red, non edible (poisonous) berries. The ...

Summer heat leaves garden soils dry and thirsty, but the refreshing, cooler, misty days of autumn are just right for planting and transplanting. The return of the autumn rains is the traditional ...