How garden design can support owl habitat for Seattle and Camano Island.

The reasons bumblebees are active in the winter in the Seattle and Camano Island area.

Anna's Hummingbirds begin courtship and nesting in the winter. This article describes how to support them in the garden.

Careful garden planning can create a garden that truly shines even in winter by using texture, color and hardscape elements.

Anna’s hummingbirds don’t migrate. They stay. Through freezing nights, cold rain, and short days, relying entirely on what the landscape can still provide. Which makes winter the most honest season for understanding whether a garden truly works.

Where Pacific Chorus Frogs live, how they overwinter, how to encourage the vernal pools they adore, and what these frogs contribute to an ecologically vibrant landscape.

Evergreen native shrubs create structure, color and interest in the winter garden, and also help winter pollinator species.

Discover how deciduous trees, shrubs, and groundcovers create winter structure in Pacific Northwest gardens. Part 3 of our Winter Design Series.

How a beautiful garden can also support the environment and wildlife.

Evergreens form the winter framework—your bones and structure. Layering them thoughtfully ensures your garden looks alive, intentional, and welcoming even on the darkest days of the year. Combine structural shrubs, textural groundcovers, fragrance, and winter flowers to create a four-season landscape that reflects the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

A well-designed landscape doesn’t go dormant—it shifts. Winter reveals form, reveals intention, and reveals the quiet presence of the garden’s structure.

A dry creek bed symbolizes a stream in a Japanese Garden at the Seattle Arboretum Japanese-inspired hardscape design integrates seamlessly with Pacific Northwest landscapes because both styles celebrate natural materials, restraint, and a deep connection to place. Mossy boulders, rain-textured stone, filtered woodland light, cedar, and seasonal water movement already echo the atmosphere of traditional Japanese gardens. When adapted with regional plants and geology, these elem

‘Diane’ witch hazel (Hamamelis × intermedia ‘Diane’) is a valuable shrub for late-winter interest in Seattle and Camano Island gardens.