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The Seattle Japanese Garden
The same morning that I visited the Pacific Connections Garden in Seattle’s Washington Park Arboretum I also visited the Japanese Garden. I’d lived just blocks away for years but never been. Time to...
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Kew Wednesdays: The Princess of Wales Conservatory, Part 1
The sky had been teasing us throughout our day at Kew, sun one moment, clouds the next followed by a downpour. As we walked up to the Princess of Wales Conservatory the sky turned dark and sprinkles...
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Callistemon ‘Clemson’...my favorite plant in the garden, this week!
The garden changes so much I find myself mildly obsessed with a different plant in my garden almost every other day. All it takes is the afternoon light to hit something just right, or maybe I notice...
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Big leaves, no color
I had a dream a few weeks ago. This was one of those dreams that comes back strongly throughout the next day, washing over you with a vision so strong that for a moment it feels more like a memory than...
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A low key horticultural field-trip, in November
There was a conference for Independent Plant Breeders in Portland a couple weeks ago, the event brought a nice group of plant nerds to Portland, one of them my friend Derick, also known as Mr....
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Fatsia japonica...my favorite plant in the garden, this week...
Last weeks favorite plant, Callistemon ‘clemson,’ garnered a few comments from folks who find Callistemon rather common (a geographical thing). Well it doesn’t get much more common, at least here in...
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Kew Wednesdays, the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Part 2
This is the second of two posts on my visit to the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens in England (here's part one). Today it's Bromeliad madness...This section was seriously crazy, so...
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Bloomday November 2012
November is not a very floriferous month here in my garden, however, going for a record six months of nonstop blooming (thankfully) we have the beautiful Abutilon hybrid 'Fairy Coral Red’...Not even...
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Foliage Follow-up for November hits the road: the Portland Japanese Garden…
My trip to the Portland Japanese garden was a little late for maximum autumn color on the trees, but it was a beautiful outing and I thought I'd share it for Foliage Follow-up this month.From the...
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Arbutus unedo and a sea of red marbles...
I’ve mentioned this Arbutus unedo (Strawberry Tree) growing at the park near us before, I love this tree. It’s especially wonderful to walk by on a grey rainy day such as this. How often do you come...
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Denial Garden 2012
Last year about this time I came up with the name “denial garden” for the planters in our driveway. From late spring through fall these are home to our vegetable garden, but over winter 2011/12 they...
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Agaves, Living sculptures for landscapes and containers, by Greg Starr
“Why do you like agaves?”… a question posed by “fellow plant geek” Scott Calhoun. Mr. Starr replies, “If asked a dozen times, I will have a dozen different answers. Each species has a distinctive...
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Kew Wednesdays, the Rock Garden and Davies Alpine House...
Finally we come to our 7th, and last, installment of Kew Wednesdays. Our wonderful visit to the Kew Gardens wraps up with a walk though the Rock Garden and Davies Alpine House...I zeroed in on these...
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Carex brunnea ‘Jenneke’...my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
This week’s favorite is a little underwhelming I’ll admit. But what it lacks in size it makes up for with a visual punch! I give you Carex brunnea ‘Jenneke’… I loved this little Carex during the hot...
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Another visit to the garden of Mr. Sean Hogan
Yes, I've taken you here before, but as we all know gardens are always changing. Thus we visit again…The morning of the most recent "horticultural field-trip" my friends and I were to meet up at Mr...
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Winterizing
I've had a few people ask me to share the steps I go through to get my garden ready for the winter. Even though it feels a little “Jerry Springer” (you know like I’m airing the most eccentric parts of...
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Dangerously Ever After…
Let’s just get a couple things taken care of right away…no, I did not write this book. And yes, I wish I had! While I don’t have daughters of my own (or sons either, if you were wondering) I do have...
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Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo' my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
I’m kind of obsessed with Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo' and truthfully this plant could be my favorite just about any week, it never looks bad. So why this plant now? Because this is what I’m...
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My visit to Alternative Eden, the garden of Mark and Gaz (part 1)...
I cannot begin to describe how excited I was to be visiting Mark and Gaz (of Alternative Eden) during our September trip to London. It was thrilling to visit a grand botanical garden like the Kew, but...
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My visit to Alternative Eden, the garden of Mark and Gaz (part 2)
Yesterday we visited the densely planted jungle that is the garden of Mark and Gaz. Today we leave the jungle and step out into a more arid landscape. It’s the transition between these two spaces that...
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