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Walking the Elmwood neighborhood during the Buffalo Fling—the second half
We're back in Buffalo's Elmwood neighborhood and visiting three different gardens, the remainder of Saturday's Fling visits. First up, the one belonging to Annabelle Irey and Jim Locke...From the Fling...
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Saturday afternoon of the Buffalo Fling, walking the Elmwood neighborhood
We're back in Buffalo. It's Saturday afternoon, the second day of the '26 Garden Fling. We spent the morning touring gardens north of Buffalo, and now it's time to walk the city gardens of Elmwood....
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Playing with hypertufa
Recently the HPSO Eastside Group (a small sub group within the larger organization) got together to make hypertufa pots. Perhaps you're wondering what exactly is hypertufa? "a lightweight, man-made...
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Lake Oswego open gardens last June
The last weekend in June I visited a pair of Hardy Plant Society of Oregon open gardens in Lake Oswego, an upscale suburb about seven miles south of Portland. It was a rainy cold weekend—which might...
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The Post Industrial Landscape of Silo City
Our lunch destination on Saturday of the Buffalo Fling was Silo City; "a unique post-industrial landscape that holds the world’s largest collection of historical grain elevators." Or as Visit Buffalo...
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Le Petit Matin and Dragon's Den, on the Buffalo Fling
Today's post covers the next two gardens we visited on Saturday morning of the Buffalo Fling in July; Le Petit Matin and Dragon's Den. Le Petit Matin (The Early Morning) is the garden belonging to...
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Craig Coyne and Gary DeNezza's garden, a Fling stop on Saturday morning
Part of the Buffalo Fling experience was the commentary from the bus captains. As we approached Craig Coyne and Gary DeNezza's home and garden, Sally Cunningham was the one sharing information and...
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It's in the ground!
When last we saw my new tree fern (a Dicksonia antarctica) I was working out exactly where I was going to plant it...I tackled the planting job on August 15th. Removing the container I was curious to...
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And then we walked Buffalo's Allentown neighborhood
As I mentioned earlier (somewhere?) each afternoon of the Buffalo Fling we were kicked off the buses set free to walk a neighborhood and stop at open gardens, via a map included in our Fling program....
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A tropical drive-by...
If you're still on Facebook you probably see plenty of "suggested for you" posts, usually things you couldn't care less about. Recently I was shown a post from something like "Portland's Secret Places"...
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A return to the Farwest Show...
It had been a few years since I'd attended the Oregon Association of NurseriesFarwest Tradeshow—three years to be exact—I was there in 2023, somehow I thought it had been longer.The show ran Wednesday...
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Someone left puppies on my front porch...
Okay, no, not really puppies... plants! We'd just set down to dinner when I saw a lady I didn't recognize hauling two plants up to the front porch. Before I could get to the door to talk with her, she...
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What else we saw the first morning of the Buffalo Fling
Today we'll take a walk through the other three gardens we visited on the first morning of the 2026 Buffalo Fling, when we headed out to what they call the Southtowns. First up, John and Carole...
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Wendy & Jeff Leyonmark's garden, on the Buffalo Fling
This was one of our early stops on the first morning of the Buffalo Fling, and what a great garden it was! That's Comptonia peregrina, I believe.The garden's description from our Fling program: "This...
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The Conservatory at Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time then you know I love a glass conservatory. Back when I reviewed the book The Conservatory, Gardens Under Glass (in the second half of this post)...
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Hoya on palms, my latest obsession
Last March I put together an experimental mount of Hoya meredithii with a NoID Epiphyllum and a bit of Microsorum brachylepis 'Datun' (project here). The fern died before even making it outside for the...
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Put A Plant On It, a plant shop in Buffalo (a Fling stop)
Monday's blog post covered our Garden Fling visit to Johanna Dominguez's home garden. Today we're stopping by her shop, Put A Plant On It, which was part of the Fling walking tour of the Elmwood...
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Valinor, the Allentown garden of Johanna Dominguez —during the Buffalo Fling
I'm turning back to Friday, July 10th—the first day of the '26 Buffalo Fling. The day started as most Garden Flings do. We were on a motorcoach out touring gardens in the Southtowns of the Buffalo...
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An afternoon on the island
Oh for f&ͻ%'$ sake, blogger has done it again. I played by their rules and did all the special witchcraft and salt-tossing to upload photos and yet it uploaded them backwards (after several rounds...
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My dispersed garden
I do the grocery pick-up once a week. Back in early June Andrew happened to be with me, I warned him that I planned to drive by a couple plants on the way, you know, as one does. I mean, you keep a...
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