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When you've gotta garden but the temp is triple digits
What to do when you can't spend another minute indoors, you've already watered everything, and the temp is headed to the triple digits (again)? Well, you divide an agave of course!Temperatures in the...
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An August visit to Chickadee Gardens
I want to blame it on COVID—those strange times that threw our socializing norms completely out of whack—but even with that excuse it had been far too long since I'd visited my friend Tamara in her...
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Plant adoption opportunities in Portland this weekend
Some of you may remember previous danger garden posts on Dale Latham's garden—for example this post from April of 2022 or this one from August of 2020. Here's an image from that 2020 post...Dale has...
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Barn's burnt down—now I can see the moon
Last Thursday I woke to the sound of chain saws. That's not unusual, we live in a dense urban neighborhood. As I lay there thinking about what I needed to accomplish that day the loud chipper noise...
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2023 Farwest Show (I return to be judgmental)
As I mentioned on Monday, I recently attended the Oregon Association of Nurseries Farwest industry trade show, their 50th! I wasn't planning to go, but then I got an invite to be a booth judge, and...
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An evening at Felony Flats Botanical Garden
I recently had the pleasure of spending an evening at Felony Flats Botanical Garden, the garden created by my friends Eric and Robert. If you've read my book, Fearless Gardening (and have a great...
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It's Labor Day, you know what that means...
No silly, not the end of summer—it means put away your white pants. You won't be needing those again until Memorial Day Weekend 2024. Seriously though, looking at this photo (another that Andrew bought...
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Seeing differently (scene 1 take 2)
I'm still feeling a little burned by the new view over the fence in our back garden (read all about that here), however I had a moment of pure delight last week when it rained and I saw these bamboo...
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Sept 16: Upcycle and Plant returns to The Other Plant Sale (with a special...
The Other Plant Sale last spring was so much fun that Nat's doing it again on September 16th. This looks to be a great gathering of plant-related vendors including Green Being Gardens, In Search of...
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UBC Botanical Garden Mondays—one of three
Today we're going back to late-June, when I drove up to Vancouver, BC, Canada, for the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group Study Weekend event. Out of town Study Weekend attendees were able to book dorm pod...
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New pyrrosia plantings (can't stop, won't stop)
Some of you may be familiar with local Plant Nerd extraordinaire Mike Darcy. I ran into Mike at last weekend's Salem Hardy Plant Society Sale at Sebright Gardens. Mike writes a column for the Oregon...
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Bloomday and a reminder about The Other Plant Sale...
It's September 15th, in other words...Garden Blogger's Bloomday! I've been staring at these floral sprays on my Mahonia gracilipes willing the flowers to open—they're tiny, and yellow—but no luck,...
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UBC Botanical Garden Mondays—two of three
Here we are, back at the UBC Botanical Garden for the second installment of UBC Monday's (find part one here). Today's post begins with a little background on the garden: "The UBC Botanical Garden is...
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Thomas Hobbs and Brent Beattie's (new) garden
This was my first private garden visit during the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group Study Weekend back in June. Some of you will recognize the name, Thomas Hobbs. He has two books out in the world: The Jewel...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery—or how I rationalize stealing a...
This corner of my back garden has undergone a few transformations over the years. Back in 2014 the privet was removed and the fence, plantings, and stock tank went in (here). I enjoyed several years...
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UBC Botanical Garden Mondays—three of three
For today's final installment of UBC Botanical Garden Mondays, we walk thru the moon gate and under busy Marine Drive (the main route to and from the UBC)...Once you emerge on the other side of the...
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Visiting gardens makes me happy
I just returned from a week in Philadelphia, aka America's Garden Capital. The 2023 Garden Blogger's Fling was held there and that meant four days of intense garden touring organized by Karl Gercens,...
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So many gardens...
You guys... I visited Chanticleer! And Longwood, and David Culp's Brandywine Cottage, and Andrew Bunting's Belvidere, and Paxson Hill Farm, and Terrain at Styer's, and the Morris Arboretum, and, and,...
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Plant Give Away...
That was the subject line of the email; Plant Give Away, it certainly caught my attention. Reading on... "You don’t know me, for we have met only once during a party at Sean Hogan’s house 7 years ago...
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Fling Flower? Nope, Fling watering cans!
Each year there's a passionate discussion about what plant summed up the year's Fling gardens (what's the Fling?). It's usually referred to as the "Fling Flower" but since one of this year's finalists...
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