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February Bloomday
After taking a 3 month break from Garden Blogger's Bloomday I'm happy to jump back in and share what's blooming (or just about to) in my garden now. We'll start indoors...This Evergreen Cybister...
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Saying goodbye to my friends the witches (hazel)
It was a sunny morning and I'd heard the hamamelis (aka witch-hazel) was in bloom at Elk Rock Garden. I had a couple of hours before I needed to be anywhere, and the garden was still open to the public...
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The Met, after the president swept through
I know I'm stretching things a bit (a lot) but this is the best I can do for a themed post on Presidents Day. While in NYC last October Andrew and I visited the the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We took...
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Behind the scenes at the RSBG
It's a long standing tradition that Andrew and I stop in Tacoma on our way to Seattle for the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival. We have lunch, I drop him at the Tacoma Book Center, then I zip up...
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Winter, again
Our winter storm forecasts here in Portland are not easy. We have multiple influencing factors that come into play—the Columbia River Gorge and the cold of Canada and Eastern WA/OR that funnels thru...
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Seminars and plant shopping at the NW Flower & Garden Fest
I kicked off my 2023 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival experience on Thursday, Feb 16th. I was there bright and early to hear Eric Hsu (plant information coordinator at Chanticleer Garden) talk...
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The City Living Gardens are back at the NWFG Festival
The City Living Displays in the skywalk at the Seattle Convention Center have long been my favorite Northwest Flower & Garden Festival feature. At the 2022 show there were only a couple of these...
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Display gardens at the 2023 NWFG Festival
I've got just one more part of the recent NWFG Festival to share, and that is the large display gardens. I won't be chronicling them all, just the bits that caught my eye. First up is "Me Encanta...
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I finally took photos of "that building"...
For a few years now I've meant to get myself somewhere that I could take photos of this building, named The Tree Farm...Recently I had reason to stop by the Portland institution known as City...
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Visiting Bosky Dell Natives
Today we're going back to late September and a visit to Bosky Dell Natives. This was my second time at this nursery, the first was way back in April of 2014. Back then I had no idea what to expect,...
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New shady planting; natives and ferns
I'm not one who does a lot of fall planting, and by that I mean ANY fall planting. I just don't trust winter to be kind. That said, the natives I purchased last September at Bosky Dell (Wednesday's...
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Book Bits, chapter one
Most of the garden book reading I've done the last few years involves books sent by publishers for review, or titles chosen by a small book group I belong to. The book group was a fun way to connect...
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Bloomday, again so soon?
Well gosh that month went by fast! I jumped back into Garden Blogger's Bloomday with February's post and somehow between then, and now, I've visited a garden show in Seattle, a garden show in Eugene,...
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NPA Study Weekend; the McWilliams/Gorz garden
The next garden I visited on last June's NPA Study Weekend belonged to John McWilliams and Tom Gorz. I loved that the house and the garden felt so connected.From the tour brochure: "Our little garden...
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Gardeners are the best people—Eugene version
My recent three day adventure in Eugene, Oregon, was definitely action packed. I gave two presentations at the local garden show, visited Gossler Farms Nursery, Northwest Garden Nursery, and two...
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Hellebores at the O'Byrne's Northwest Garden Nursery
For those who love hellebores, Ernie and Marietta O'Byrne—and their Northwest Garden Nursery—are legends. They are the plant breeders behind the Winter Jewels collection (read about their plants and...
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The garden at the O'Byrne's Northwest Garden Nursery
We're back in Eugene, OR, at Northwest Garden Nursery—Marietta and Ernie O'Byrne's place. Wednesday I shared some hellebore photos (here) from the greenhouses, today we wander the garden...This is my...
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A visit to Gossler Farms Nursery
My Eugene adventure earlier in the month started here, at Gossler Farms Nursery. I've visited several times before—like the time I took home a variegated daphniphyllum—but every visit is special...
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Another one bites the dust...
A few weeks ago I posted a video on Instagram (here) of me pulling the center from my huge Agave weberi, it was completely rotted out. The soundtrack to the video was Queen's 1980 hit Another One...
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A long anticipated Sauvie Island garden visit
I've wanted to visit this garden—located on Portland's Sauvie Island—for several years now. I remember Maurice Horn (of the much loved, and now closed, Joy Creek Nursery) speaking about the garden when...
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