articles by Marty Wingate

Marty's Articles

Marty writes for a variety of fine garden magazines including Fine Gardening, Country Gardens, and The American Gardener.

Find these fabulous publications at your local newsstand or buy them online!

Upcoming Articles

Look for my article in the July issue of Seattle Metropolitan on organic garden care. Yes, It's possible to have a living green carpet without covering the world with weed-and-feed!

Look for my article on winter gardens in the the winter issue 2008 of the Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin magazine. It has my garden travelogue of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Regular Publications

Marty reviews the top garden travel destinations on World Reviewer. Find out where's she's been and you'll find out where you want to go!

Read my features every Thursday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. You'll learn about everything from design ideas, plant selection, fabulous trees and gardens to visit. All of Marty's Seattle P-I articles are available online.

Some recent Marty Wingate headlines:

NW Gardens: Essential fixes (10/20/2007)
NW Gardens: Give your garden a lift (10/13/2007)
Shape up the yard with these contrasting forms (10/6/2007)
Plant Pick: Viburnum opulus 'Compactum' (compact highbush cranberry) (10/6/2007)
Garden Basics: Leaf skeletons (10/6/2007)
NW Gardens: Wake up sleepy fall beds (9/29/2007)
NW Gardens: It's an endless variety show on the patio (9/22/2007)
NW Gardens: Spent shrubs lend support to showy September vines (9/15/2007)
NW Gardens: Good medicine for your garden (9/8/2007)
NW Gardens: Water-wise and people-friendly (9/1/2007)
Dan Hinkley has a new title: Monrovia's 'plant explorer' (9/1/2007)
What you need to know before hiring a garden designer, builder or tree trimmer (8/25/2007)
Garden Basics: Wait for rains to mulch (8/25/2007)
Plant Pick: Clematis 'Henryi' (8/25/2007)
NW Gardens: In living color (8/18/2007)
NW Gardens: Habitats birds will be wild about (8/11/2007)
NW Gardens: Exotic plants are worth the risk (8/4/2007)
NW Gardens: Lilies are early and late bloomers (7/28/2007)
Northwest Gardens: 'Geraniums' are busting out all over (7/21/2007)
Nw Gardens: It's knot just a BIG deal (7/14/2007)
NW Gardens: Stepping out from bland (7/7/2007)

Previous headlines

Special Publications

My article on the Northwest Horticultural Society appeared in the September issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine. It was great fun to delve into the dishy details of this organizations past!