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Drawn to the decay
While I love a clean, modern garden defined by hard lines and significant hardscape I'm also a sucker for an overgrown plot, with years of use, that's fallen into decay. When we bought this garden...
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Acting on an agave tip...
It seems impossible that I was out taking these photos on September 21st. I would have thought it was late August. COVID time feels somewhat detached from reality, even in hindsight.Anyway, I was out...
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August morning in the Hummingbird Garden—Part I
Here we are, another year gone by and we're back at the Kuzma/Halme garden which now goes by the name of the Hummingbird Garden. It was August—you may have picked that up in the title. A beautiful...
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An August morning in the Hummingbird Garden—Part II
And we return to where we left off yesterday, the back garden of the Hummingbird Garden (aka the Kuzma Garden). Our gaze has turned to the left now, and we're staring—in awe—at that gorgeous Agave...
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Wednesday Vignette: baby ferns! (and the Garden Fever Book Soirée)
Surprisingly, I was early for my latest shopping adventure at Garden Fever (my neighborhood nursery)—their COVID shopping restrictions require you to schedule a timed appointment. As I stood out front...
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Elk Rock Garden, the garden of the Bishop’s Close
When my hamamelis (witch-hazel) starts to bloom I feel a gentle pull to visit the Elk Rock Garden of the Bishop’s Close...I have no doubt this garden would be lovely to visit on any day of the year,...
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Erica arborea, I swoon...
There's a garden nearby that I visited several years ago and think of ever so often. I remembered it's general location, but couldn't manage to find it—that is until a few weeks ago when I was out...
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The late winter mantel—a houseplant installation
As our wet winter combined with COVID induced isolation continue to keep me home and not connecting with "real people," I find myself watching more online entertainment. Occasionally I venture into the...
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Shades of green, at Eagle Fern Park
In early January Andrew and I visited Eagle Fern Park, I assume the name pays homage to the fact the park sits along Eagle Creek and is PACKED with ferns. It's also home to amazing lengths of Usnea...
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Wednesday Vignette, the agave feature wall
While looking for something else nearby, I happened upon this agave feature wall...For a time I worked in marketing at an architecture and interior design firm and I remember the feature wall being a...
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Echium wildpretii, you've been amazing! I thought we were home free...but no
There's a PNW Plant Geeks group on Facebook that I enjoy dropping in on now and then. When news of the sudden change in our weather started to become known last weekend, one of the page admins posted:...
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Attitude of Gratitude (for agaves?)
Following an agave tip from an Instagram friend, I ended up in Inner SE Portland on a sunny Sunday in early December. I parked, looked up, and noticed signs of a roof-top garden...that's the building I...
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The calendar says Bloomday, my garden isn't feeling it
My Bloomday posts tend towards the documentary: must make a record of all that is blooming in my garden! Not this month. In case you're just tuning in, things took a turn last Thursday. Here in the...
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Storm Report—February 2021
As I begin writing this post—on Sunday night—ice is falling from the sky. Glancing out our windows I see a shiny slick coating on everything. NOAAA (National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration)...
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Wednesday Vignette: yes, I did scream—just a little bit
Playing the gardening version of chicken, I'd left these Aloe maculata (syn Aloe saponaria) planted out all winter, they were doing great thanks to our mild conditions. Late last week—when things took...
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Storm Report—February 2021 (Part Two)
The first half of my report on our crazy February Storm ended on Sunday the 14th, just before the Ice Storm Warning we'd received started to make it's power known. Plenty of snow and some ice had...
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Photos from walking in the neighborhood...
I had this post all lined up for earlier in the week, before the storm pushed it to the sidelines. Diving back into it now I had to laugh at the white rock sprinkled around this small desert-style...
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Potted Elephant a mental health "pick-me-up" visit
Back in late January I spent a few hours in the greenhouses of the Potted Elephant. I felt lucky to get a special "behind the scenes" look at this local grower, it was a little bit of heaven on a cold...
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Potted Elephant inspiration, and purchases
We return to the Potted Elephant for a handful of photos meant to remind myself (and maybe you too?) to be creative with how I grow my plants. I first saw this tillandsia encrusted plant in Dicks...
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Wednesday Vignette, that was then
I have no idea where this photo came from exactly, it showed up in an image folder having nothing to do with my garden... obviously dragged there by a lazy mouse (or a inaccurately moving hand...
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