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Garden Blogger's Bloomday for November, 2021
If we identify our seasons based on the meteorological calendar then this is the last Bloomday of autumn, the next time we meet up to share our floral displays it will be winter—crazy to think, isn't...
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Tempting fate? A summer-ending nature trek
Today we're doing a little backwards time travel and turning the blogging clock back to Labor Day Weekend, or as many view it: the "official" end of summer. When Andrew mentioned he was going fishing,...
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Heronswood; the parking-lot rock garden and borders
Just a few days before I planned to visit Heronswood Garden in person, the Northwest Horticultural Society held a webinar called "Charting the Path Ahead for Heronswood with Patrick McMillan"—excellent...
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Filling the hypertufa containers
When I shared images of my autumn hanging plantings and dish planters (here) I ended the post with a teaser photo of the hypertufa pots I was planting up. Today we'll take a closer look at those...
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So you like those things?
Last week Andrew and I ventured south to Los Angeles, for a pre-Thanksgiving gathering with his family. One day we traveled east, towards Azusa, where Andrew fished the San Gabriel River, and I visited...
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Thinking thankful thoughts
Today is that day when folks here in the USA pause and give gratitude. Truth be told I'm having a hard time coming up with appropriate words this year, so I'll let a photo do the talking. Take care all...
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Seen from the street... (street scenes?)
Today's post consists of photos from our SoCal trip that were taken because I saw something interesting from the street—sometimes on foot, sometimes from the car. Oh, and guess what? Blogger did it...
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The Renaissance Garden at Heronswood
Today brings the final of my three posts on Heronswood Garden, which I visited in September (Part One, Part Two). In this post we'll explore the Renaissance Garden. We begin at the path that takes us...
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A trio of Portland drive-by gardens
Today seems like a good time to share some local garden photos I've collected—we'll start here, very near my home. It was the dark house and fence, backed by the orange/red house next door, that...
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Visiting Scott's Seattle garden
One of the gardens I was able to visit during my September trip up to the Seattle area, was that of my friend Scott. In the past he'd teased with talk of projects keeping visitors away and the...
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My Texas adventure started at Linda's...
As you may remember, at the end of October I flew down to Austin, Texas, to give a talk as part of Pam Penick's Garden Spark! series. While that talk was the reason for the trip, it wasn't the only...
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A few more vignettes, from Linda's garden
I almost included these dozen+ odd photos in yesterday's blog post, but that would have meant working your way thru over 60 photos, maybe a bit much for one post? Instead you get a blog bonus! Starting...
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If a turkey falls in the forest...
Andrew has mentioned more than once there is a certain kind of tree in the area that seem to all be dying, and appear to be hacked back into odd shapes. He's tentatively identified them as birch trees...
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And we were off, to John's Austin Garden
My October Austin garden visits included a stop at John Ignacio's garden. This was one of those potentially worrisome meet-ups fueled by social media...My friend Ann met John when she visited the John...
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The crevice garden—and more—at Coleson's
After wrapping up our visit to John Ignacio's Austin garden we—that's John, Pam and I—then took a short jaunt to see a neighbor's garden that John helped to build during COVID lockdown. It just so...
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December's Bloomday
I love Garden Blogger's Bloomday for the fact it just keeps coming around. Every month, no matter the weather, the state of the world, my mood, there it is... just before the 15th of each month I am...
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Aliens in the garden
Mid-November I visited the Los Angeles County Arboretum. The garden was set-up for a light show and closing came early, visitors needed to leave so reticketed folks could enter for the show. I see this...
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Christmas dg style, 2021
As is my tradition, on the day after Thanksgiving I cued up the Christmas music and pulled out the holiday decorations.I wasn't feeling terribly creative this year, although I knew I wanted a lot of...
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Happy Holidays (and don't steal plants, dammit!)
Recently I pulled up an old blog post from 2015; "Holiday cartoon déjà vu..." In that post I visited Marbott's, a local nursery with fabulous vintage greenhouses. The above and below photos are from...
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Christmas joy, around town...
Some readers might remember the Portland tradition of hunting for the Santa Clones. The short story is that a fellow named Chris Willis has been collecting plastic Santas for years and puts them on...
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