Pacific Horticulture Magazine Contributors

Richie Steffen

Richie Steffen is curator of horticulture for the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, where he manages the rare plant collections and leads the acquisition of new plants. He is an active member of numerous horticultural societies in the area and lectures widely about garden-worthy plants.

Articles

gardens & design

Ripened fruits and autumn foliage of Polygonatum prattii

Pacific Plant Promotions: Polygonatum prattii

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Spring

gardens & design

Golden full-moon maple Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’ (LT)

Great Plant Picks: Ninety-one for 2008

Regions: Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

gardens & design

Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Purple Prince’

Epimediums: Queens of the Woodland

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter

gardens & design

A deep pink Cyclamen pseudibericum in the editor’s garden. Photograph by RGT

Cyclamen for Winter and Spring

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Spring, Winter

gardens & design

Sedum sieboldii [RS]

2009 Great Plant Picks: The Short and Tall of It

Regions: Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

gardens & design

Blechnum spicant with the heart-shaped leaves of Epimedium 5 perralchicum

The Hardy Fern Foundation Turns Twenty

Regions: Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

gardens & design

Cyclamen hederifolium Shooting Star Strain, in which the flowers within the other point upward

Cyclamen for Summer and Autumn

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Summer

environment, gardens & design

The lush but dry hillside at the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden; low mounded shrubs dominate, occasionally interrupted by vertical elements, such as a golden-needled Taxus baccata‘Standishii’

Dry Slope Gardening in Seattle

Regions: Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

gardens & design

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Pacific Plant Promotions: Ercilla volubilis

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, So. Cal, Washington/BC
Seasons: Spring

gardens & design

Himalayan maidenhair fern (Adiantum venustum)

Great Plant Picks 2012: Made in the Shade

Regions: Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

Mairis’s maidenhair (Adiantum 5mairisii). Author’s photograph

Pacific Plant Promotions: Adiantum xmairisii

Regions: Nor. Cal, Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer

As a companion to Richie Steffen’s article on epimediums i…

An Epimedium Resource Guide

gardens & design

Golden bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis ‘Gold Heart’)

Great Plant Picks: Focus on Foliage

Regions: Oregon, Washington/BC
Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

environment, perspectives

Rhododendron occidentale ‘Stagecoach Frills’, found on a rise at Stagecoach hill, north of eureka, California. photograph by Frank mossman, courtesy lake Wilderness arboretum

Smith-Mossman Western Azalea Garden

Regions: Nor. Cal, Washington/BC
Seasons: Spring

gardens & design

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Thick-leaved Mahoe (Melicytus crassifolius)