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March 14, 2025

Container Gardening

Charlo W.

Colorful spring containers celebrate the start of the gardening season and creating them is fun and easy if you know which plants to choose. Look for these great gems to create a new spring container or refresh an existing pot.

April 11, 2023

Planting & Plant Care

Alex LaVilla

Peony Planting & Care in the Northwest

Who isn't captivated with the lush blooms of the peony? We still get excited when peonies begin arriving! Alex LaVilla, our perennials buyer, has a few planting and care tips to help you be sure your peony is as happy and productive as it can be.

February 28, 2023

Plants for Each Season

Jackie Watts

Our Favorite Early Spring Flowers

Early-blooming plants help brighten the gray, rainy days and remind us that warmer days are on the way. Here are a few of our favorites for the period we call “early spring” (February-late March). Some even bloom earlier in winter and well into April!

March 23, 2021

Edible Gardening

Aimée Damman

Starting a Vegetable Garden

No matter whether this is your first-ever vegetable garden or just the first time planting this year, if you take a little time to prepare before you plant, everything will go more smoothly and you’ll be more successful. Here are a few simple things to consider when starting a vegetable garden this spring.

March 7, 2021

Edible Gardening

Aimée Damman

Vegetables to Plant in Spring

One of the first activities I want to do outside in early spring is to plant my early spring vegetable garden. There’s nothing like the smooth, clean surface of prepped garden beds, the soil still pristine and just waiting to nurture rows of bright green spring vegetables, carefully planted in perfect rows. It’s like a fresh school notebook - full of promise. But what to plant? Here are a few of my favorite vegetables to plant in spring, with tips on when and how to plant them.

Supporting Our Community

Lena Curl

January 3, 2019

Supporting Our Community

A Look Back at Swansons' 2018 Kids' Club

Lena Curl

January 3, 2019

Supporting Our Community

We really just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us in 2018 for an awesome year of Kids’ Club activities. We hope that in these activities, you had fun, were inspired, and maybe picked up some gardening know-how along the way. Click to read more.

Dan Gilchrist

October 11, 2018

Gardens Around the World, Supporting Our Community

A Food Forest Grows in Bothell

Dan Gilchrist

October 11, 2018

Gardens Around the World, Supporting Our Community

An emerging idea as we blur the boundaries between ornamental and food gardening is the Food Forest. A project garnering recent attention is the Cascadia College (CC) Food Forest, on the campus shared by Cascadia and the University of Washington, Bothell (UWB). It is one of a few but growing number of college campuses in the U.S. which are maintained using sustainable practices and without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

Lena Curl

February 1, 2017

Supporting Our Community

Volunteer Restoration Planting Project

Lena Curl

February 1, 2017

Supporting Our Community

Swansons was thrilled to participate and to donate over 200 plants the restoration project! We were able to do so in part because of our Gift that Grows program.

Aimée Damman

December 28, 2016

Supporting Our Community

#SharingSwansons Campaign Was A Success! Thank You!

Aimée Damman

December 28, 2016

Supporting Our Community

#SharingSwansons Campaign Was A Success! Thank You!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our '12 Days of Holiday Sharing' social media campaign! We had such fun seeing and sharing photos of fun holiday experiences at Swansons! If you missed it, here's a quick recap:

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