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An agave makes the local paper...
I do love it when the local press get's all aflutter about an agave. Many times it's because the agave is in a conservatory and has started to push out a tall bloomspike, causing concern about the...
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Trees...
See that conifer wedged between the neighbor's dark leaf maple and Clifford, our Magnolia macrophylla? The one directly over our garage? It's not our tree, it's in the backyard of our neighbors to the...
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Go stand by that whatever it is...
Yes. here we have another of the many photographs and postcards that I've received from my husband over the years. Don't they look excited to be there?Ha, not so much really—but then again people...
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Bloomday, September 2020
It's Garden Bloggers Bloomday "Toxic Air Edition"—I took these photos on Friday afternoon, being cooped up inside the house for 4 days was driving me mad, now it's been a week. Good thing I ventured...
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Wednesday Vignette, the will to live
Plants are amazing. There was a photo-shoot in my garden back in July, the container filled with Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' was having a bad moment, so I pulled it and stuck it in the garage. Then...
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Bean fern update...
When I wrote about my "mossy branch with benefits" a blog reader asked for a close-up of the planted wooden knob on the metal screen, saying it looked like "something straight out of the dg shop"...I'm...
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Yucca Rostrata peekaboo
Yucca rostrata at a bank? Yep...I spied these trunking specimens when Andrew and I were headed back from a late spring drive out along the Clackamas River. Coming back into town he made a swing through...
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Agave 'Mateo'
Late in the summer of 2013 we were on the Oregon coast celebrating my parents 50th wedding anniversary. Never one to pass up the opportunity to visit a plant store I stopped in at Bear Valley Nursery...
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Please be aware...
This mossy scene can be found at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way, Washington. I stopped at the garden on the way up to the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, in Seattle,...
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Wednesday Vignette: how many trashcan lids do you see?
You know those comment or identity verification images where you're asked how many red lights, or tractors, or bicycles you see in the photo grid pattern? Usually there are a few photos so poorly done...
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Let’s drop by the Huntington; plants on plants
Hey, look at that, we're back at the Huntington Garden in San Marino, CA...One of the first blog posts from my December 2019 visit to the garden was about jungle cactus growing in and on other plants,...
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Found an Agave ovatifolia across the street from my barber...
So started a Facebook post from my fellow Portland gardener and blogger Matthew Hubbard. He shared a few photos and I begged for the location, I had to see this garden for myself...Unfortuantely when I...
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My garden in Fine Gardening magazine
I am thrilled to share that the December issue of Fine Gardening magazine—making it's way to newsstands now—includes a story I wrote on my garden and my plant collecting tendencies. The article is...
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Let's look at some groundcovers...
I started collecting images for this post back in June, then I forgot about them—which is sad, because I love groundcovers!Observant readers may recognize these first few images as coming from Megan...
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Wednesday Vignette, autumn decor...
Tis the season I guess, pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks and such. I happened to be near Blooming Junction nursery last week (full post tomorrow) so I stopped in. If I were the type who wants decorative...
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Since I was nearby...
Curses on you Google Blogger! This will be a fun little experiment. We're going through this post backwards, starting at the end, and moving to the beginning. Why? Because no matter how I load a batch...
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Sam's hellstrip...
This garden visit is another based on a tip from a friend, I'd driven nearby—just a street or two away—many times...but never seen this wonderful garden.The action here is all in the extra-wide...
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Agave coring, kinda, sorta...
Perhaps you've heard of agave propagation through drilling, aka agave coring. I wrote about it back in 2012, and Gerhard did a much better post in 2013. What I'm writing about today isn't really agave...
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An incomplete look at my friend Heather's garden...
Here on the blog I've documented countless gardens belonging to strangers, while overlooking several that belong to friends and fellow bloggers. As I was doing a little photo housekeeping the other day...
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Wednesday Vignette, spikes in waiting
Last week I mentioned buying a pot of Agave parryi 'JC Raulston' that had three plants mushed in the container. After I separated and potted them up, I stuck them in my "spikes in waiting" stock tank...
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