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Scenes from a colorful season
Just about everyone I know has said what an exceptionally colorful autumn this has been, and I agree. Driving around town has been jaw-droppingly beautiful. Here in my own garden there's not been that...
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Truly Tiny Gardens
Andrew and I flew down to Southern California last week for an early Thanksgiving visit with his family. The weather forecast was calling for cloudy conditions with rainfall—not the SoCal experience I...
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Chanticleer Friday: the Teacup Garden
Welcome back to Chanticleer Friday, today we'll be looking around the Teacup Garden."With playful verve, the Teacup Garden takes on a different personality each year. One year it adopts the...
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Hedgleigh Spring, an early morning stop on the Fling
Charles Cresson's Hedgleigh Spring was the first private garden I visited during the recent Philly Fling. Bright and early on Friday morning our bus pulled up by this historic house...There was a sign...
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Andrew Bunting's Belvidere, a Philly Fling garden
After departing Hedgleigh Spring (Monday's blog post) our next stop was Belvidere...This front garden had multiple personalities depending on where you stood to take your photo. Above is the "swallowed...
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Chanticleer Friday: the Tennis Court Garden
Today we continue our stroll through Chanticleer and descend the stairs into the Tennis Court Garden (TCG)...There is however, no tennis court; "Once the scene for matches between the Rosengarten...
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My newly adopted agaves made their own container
If you've ever shopped at Xera Plants here in Portland then you've probably stopped in Bob Hyland's shop next door, Contained Exuberance—a clever name for a plant pot shop. Sadly Bob decided this was...
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A jealous robot reviews Fearless Gardening
An early adopter of technology I am not. I think smart phones were available for nearly 5 years before I got one. I had to be dragged—almost kicking and screaming—to Facebook, and I only joined...
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Chanticleer Friday: the House and Terrace Gardens
Big lush specimens of Begonia grandis were everywhere during the recent Philadelphia-area Garden Fling, this one at Chanticleer is a great example. The foliage is so, well, grand that even the...
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Holiday wreaths, 2023 style...
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you know I love to make wreaths. Wreaths made with "non-traditional" plant material, wreaths from handmade paper flowers, and good old fashioned...
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Nursery visits during the holidays
We were blessed with abundant sunshine during the final week of November, so while I was out doing some holiday shopping I took advantage and stopped by a few nurseries before the rain returned with a...
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Chanticleer Friday: the Elevated Walkway, Serpentine and Bulb Meadow
Today's Chanticleer Friday post covers four areas of the garden that to me felt like the "in between" spaces. Everything up to this point had been a collection of stunning plants and smallish spaces...
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Christmas, 2023 style
This year's Christmas decor follows my tried and true formula: silver trees, vintage ornaments, and lots of greenery.I jokingly told a friend I was going with "a California Christmas"—meaning no...
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Jimmy and the cactus, a sort of Christmas tale
It’s November 1951 and Jimmy and his mom are headed to Mexico for the winter, as is tradition since his mom started dating that new guy...Jimmy didn’t want to go. He wanted to stay with his Dad, back...
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Chanticleer Friday: The Asian Woods
Today we're back at Chanticleer, well, actually every Friday we're back at Chanticleer until we see it all! I'm taking a deep dive into photos from my September visit to this garden. After many years...
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Random Wednesday; summer scenes from three venues
Since I'm always taking photos it's only natural that I end up with a few loose ends that don't make a complete post, so today I'm doing a three-fer. We start in Dale Hickey's garden up in Vancouver,...
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Chanticleer Friday: Pond Garden and Bell's Run Creek
This is my seventh Chanticleer Friday post. I'm going into such detail because each area that I've featured feels like it's own unique space, it's part of the amazing whole that is Chanticleer, yet...
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Happy New Year! Let's go for a nature walk...
Can you believe its 2024? I sure can't. There was a time when New Year's Day meant recovering from an epic hangover, thanks to crazy NYE parties with friends. However now that I'm an old married lady,...
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An afternoon at Little Prince of Oregon
Mid-December I had the pleasure of visiting Little Prince of Oregon (LPO) with friends Evan Bean and Ann Amato, they're on the left in the photo below. I'm the one in the back in black, and in front of...
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