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Plants & planty things from my trip north to visit friends
Wednesday I wrote about the plants I brought home from my trip up to Washington, today I share the things I saw while I was there. Washington will always be home to me; Spokane and Seattle, those are...
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A garden is more than the sum of its plants, it's all about the relationships...
The front garden has never been a space I spoil with luxurious care. Most of the current plants went in the ground early in 2011, so they’ve had ample time to become established. Other things have been...
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A garden is more than the sum of its plants, it's all about the relationships...
Here we are, back where we left off on Monday. Of course I hope your eyes rest on the Agave ovatifolia, Euphorbia rigida, Yucca rostrata, maybe even the Fatsia japonica in the distance. But my eyes see...
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October Bloomday, 2022 (feels like summer edition)
Here we are, October in Portland's Never Ending Summer. Am I complaining? Nope. But honestly it is odd. I mean it's the middle of October and we're experiencing temperatures in the 80's, and it's dry....
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My garden sprinkler is a slug love hotel
I snapped this shot on October 5th. I'd positioned the sprinkler to deep-water a few shrubs but it was spraying in an odd manner, almost as though something had plugged part of the opening. Turns out...
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Back Garden Tour 2022, Chapter 1
We begin this year's tour of the back garden in the driveway, where instead of sharing a container garden like I usually do, we get scaffolding and a siding project. The cedar shingles on the upper...
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Back Garden Tour 2022, Chapter 2
Starting up where Chapter 1 left off, we're looking at the area behind our garage, the fence is our south-side property line. For the first fifteen years I gardened here, there was a trio of conifers...
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Susan's garden...
It was a lazy warm Sunday in mid September when Patricia and I visited Susan Langenes's garden in Milwaukie, Oregon. This was not my first time to visit, but it had been awhile. This rock garden area...
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Alaskan inspiration
Kenneth Egawa—a friend I haven't seen in ages (at least since the late 1990's) but I am connected with on Facebook—recently posted some vacation photos, a Holland America Line Alaskan cruise. I've...
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It's not just roses...
This month marks the end of my six and a half years of service on the board of directors for the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon. I met so many talented people during my run, it has truly been an honor....
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It's Halloween...
Wednesday and Addam—our favorite skeleton flamingos—arrived right on time, but this year they brought a friend.He's a rather thin fellow, I was kind of worried about him—but it seems like he's up for a...
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That's a lotta (controlled) color...
This is the third garden I visited back on September 18th. The day started at Susan's, then proceeded to Harry's, and wrapped up here at the Fishingham Garden...I've long followed this garden's owners...
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Contradistinction
Do you know this word, contradistinction? It's new to me, defined as: distinction by means of contrast / distinction made by contrasting the different qualities of two things / the difference between...
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New York City!
Andrew and I just returned from a week in New York City. This was not my first visit to NYC, I was there in my 20's and did all the proper touristy things. That trip was done on the cheap, my friend...
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The NYC Flower District
As I said in Monday's post, our NYC stay in was in what's called The Flower District. I had no idea what exactly to expect from that name, but I enjoyed snapping photos as we came and went from our...
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Noble Plant
I have one more post from the NYC Flower District shops. My first night in the city (Andrew arrived a few days earlier) we set off to find a dinner spot. Passing this storefront something felt...
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The New York Botanical Garden
Contrary to how things look here, the NYBG was hopping when I visited on October 30th.Well, maybe not the nursery at the gift shop (it was late in the season after all), but trust me, you'll see...
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The NY Botanical Garden's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
Today's blog post comes to you from the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the NYBG. It's a pretty amazing complex of glasshouses...You might be wondering though, who is Enid A. Haupt? The Smithsonian does...
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Taft Garden Fridays; a look at the Agaves and Aloes
After visiting New York and starting to write about the gardens I saw there it occurred to me that I must be coming up on the one year anniversary of my visit to the Taft Garden in Ojai, California. A...
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Pyrrosia and mushrooms...
Here's a vertical gardening project that I completed sometime in August, but never got around to sharing here on the blog. Pyrrosia lingua and Pyrrosia sheareri, with a little moss and a few pieces of...
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