ISSUE #34.25 • SPECIAL SECTION •

On the Web

[April 30th, 2008]

Darcy Daniels of Bloomtown Nursery

Daniels’ attractive blog is replete with lovely photos and smart insights from a top area garden designer who also operates a seasonal retail nursery in Northeast Portland. Follow her progress this spring as she starts from scratch to create a vegetable garden. bloomtown.typepad.com. (SS)

Territorial Seed Co.

Get a free catalog from this regional favorite, and become pleasantly self-educated. This 29-year-old Oregon company specializes in organic and heirloom seed varieties, tested for quality and vigor in our climate on an organic farm near Cottage Grove. The catalog caters to the urbanite with 50 to 100 varieties of seeds bred to produce well in containers or scrunched spaces. Josh Kirschenbaum, Territorial’s test gardener, recommends the Windowbox Roma tomato, Pot and Patio lettuce mix, 2-foot-wide columnar Sentinel apple trees or the compact Top Hat blueberry. 1-800-626-0866, territorialseed.com. (SS)