The Pacific Northwest Climate Garden
by Duncan McAlpine

Thank you for spending the time in visiting this page. As you well know, the way the world can communicate and share each others interest is just as simple as turning on the computer and viewing the feast of information on the WWW. As you can see, my main interest is gardening (family first) which all started by just buying a house. As a gardener, we all have started from the beginning and we are continuous learning how to have that special green thumb. If you want to learn how to create a nice garden, I recommend reading as many books as possible on gardening design and colors.

A gardeners knows, a garden is never finished but always evolving. My grandfather (Turner Verchere) gave the kick start in challenging me in growing the Himilaya Blue Poppy "Meconopsis " from seed. He wanted to see if I truly was a gardener at heart. Well, with the seed he provided me, I was able to germinate well over 100 plants. From this experience, I truly enjoy growing plants from seed. I have even created a mailing list on the methods of Propagation plants. Now , I started to become weak and started buying certain plants from my trusted nurseries. I still germinate certain species from seed.

Most of my education has come from my first home garden design. Which has educated me on many issues from the type of plants to soil conditions. Now, here I am with a new house and new soil. Yuk, new soil which is hard pan. To fix this problem, I improved my soil over time by applying 50 yards of compost. The lot size is 15K sq/ft. with full sun and I live in a Zone 7-8 environment. Currently, my garden contains several theme gardens which all adds up to one hell of a lot of plants. My wife wishes she had more antique furniture instead. The theme gardens I currently have established defined in the upper left hand corner of this page. Look at the numbers and see the type of garden I have planted. In the perennial garden, I have provided several seasonal pictures for viewing.

Garden Themes
 1 Rock
 3 Bog
 4 Perennial
 5 Xeriscape
 6 Mediterranean
 7 Shade
 8 Pumpkin Patch