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Road trip; with bonus traveling cactus
Last week Andrew and I road-tripped back up to Spokane for my dad's memorial service. On our way out of town I snapped photos along I-84, headed east through the Columbia River Gorge. Here we're only...
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Return to the Silverton Garden—a real visit this time
Back in March I shared photos from a random drive-by garden I spotted in Silverton, Oregon. The photos were horrid, but I had to share—hoping maybe they would be seen by someone who knew the gardener...
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The Sacred Space, Summerland CA
Oh Summerland, how you captured my imagination...Driving up the 101 last November—from Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara—I happened to notice a business with tall flags waving in the ocean breeze. As...
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The corner project that went on and on and on and...
I've been at this gardening thing long enough to know that our interests wax and wane. It's not always full steam ahead all the time, and that's okay. However, occasionally a project falls outside that...
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Bloomday for July—it had to happen eventually
All the usual things are blooming in my garden this July. There are a few Magnolia macrophylla blooms hanging on, although by now they are rather "worn"...All the Callistemon ‘Woodlander’s Hardy Red’...
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Visiting Opryland; a conservatory (and hotel) in Nashville
When planning a trip to Nashville what does one put on their "must do" list—especially with just two full days on the ground? Well, our priority was time with family. Beyond that one could try to take...
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Plants on plants, at Opryland
On Monday I shared a walk through the conservatories at the Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN. Today we're going back to Opryland as I highlight one of my favorite things, plants growing on other...
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Okay not really. Instead I escaped to Sebright Gardens, I just liked the flashback title, what can I say—I'm feeling nostalgic lately. It had been awhile since I ventured south to Sebright and things...
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Gardening in the garage
I have a few friends who use their garage as winter storage for their dormant succulents. Heck, back in the days before the shade pavilion greenhouse I used to scoot a few potted succulents in there to...
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The Risdahl-Pittman Garden, my first stop on a fun-filled weekend of garden...
Early on June 16th I packed up my car and headed north for the Northwest Perennial AllianceHardy Plant Study Weekend. This event—held in the greater Seattle/Puget Sound area—was a five day garden...
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The fern bowl becomes the bromeliad bowl—but where did the ferns go?
Back in May of 2019 I put together a planting I referred to as the "fern bowl"—kind of like a fern table, except it wasn't on a flat surface but rather in a large, shallow bowl. Here's a photo from...
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PowellsWood; a Northwest Pleasure Garden
My second stop on the recent NPA Hardy Plant Study Weekend was PowellsWood; "A Northwest pleasure garden tucked away in a Federal Way neighborhood, the three acres of PowellsWood are nestled against...
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Bromeliad inspiration, realized
I saved this project for last (my last big project of the spring, which didn't actually happen until mid-July), because I wanted to use up all the things (moss, tillandsia, bromeliads) that hadn't...
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If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes...
First a housekeeping note. If you came here wondering if I'd stopped blogging, because you stopped receiving emails alerting you to new posts, well...I have not stopped, I post every Mon, Wed, and Fri....
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When a full parking lot is a good thing...
West Seattle Nursery is always worth a visit—so when I had an extra 20 minutes and was nearby, what the heck, I thought I would swing by. I failed to factor in that it was a Sunday afternoon in...
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A November stroll through Seaside Gardens
As the title suggests, it was November—Nov 20th 2021 to be exact—and I was just north of Los Angeles, CA. I'd been set free with a rental car and a full day to myself to explore and get into trouble....
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Adding color to my garden
If you follow me on Instagram, then you know that this formerly brown wall in our back garden...Recently became an orange wall. Shocking right?Well, not as shocking as this photo...Ya, that's that same...
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August's Bloomday...
Once again, the 15th snuck up on me. How do the summer months move so much faster than the winter ones? (at least for me). As for blooms, I have a couple. Really, there's not much to share. Last April...
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This is the cactus...
Yes, it's time to share a couple of black and white photos from the archives, well, the archives that consist of photos Andrew has given me as gifts over the years. This one seems remarkable for the...
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Is that an epilithic or endolithic lithophyte?
Last summer I did this little fern planting of Asplenium trichomanes and Pyrrosia lingua 'Kei Kan' next to one of my stock tanks... Rather than dig down into the ground to plant, I mounded up a little...
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