Pat Munts

It was all Jenna Sutton could do to round up 3-year-old Henry as he raced through the new meadow garden at the Spokane Public Library's Indian Trail branch on a recent – and hot – afternoon.

It is said that Spokane is the biggest small town you’ll ever live .

Akua Lum-Resse has a bit of a challenge on her hands as she prepares to bring her large collection of succulents back into the house before the frosts hit.

We are finally settling into fall and that brings up a list of projects to do before the weather really breaks.

One of the things I love about fall is the chance to sit in the cooler garden and just listen and observe.

After a long, dark winter, the appearance of early spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils are a welcome, colorful harbinger of spring.

By Pat Munts For The Spokesman-Review By the time you are reading this, we will have had our first killing frost.

It's been a long, beautiful fall this year. The cool weather tripped the trees to color up and then hold their leaves for a beautiful show of reds, oranges and yellows.

Over the past 10 years, David Benscoter and the Lost Apple Project have been exploring the history of Eastern Washington through the apple orchards planted by early pioneers.

We are winding down what has been a crazy weather and gardening season. If some of you newer gardeners feel like the season was somewhat of a failure, rest assured even those of us who have gardened here for decades had major failures.