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Morris Arboretum Fernery (continued...)
Yes we're back at the Morris Arboretum fernery again today (part one here), I took a lot of photos during my visit and wanted to share more than seemed appropriate for just one post.This was a fun...
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Back to Bella Madrona (10 years after the PDX Fling)
The final stop during the 2014 Garden Blogger's Fling in Portland was the garden of Sampson and Beasley, aka Bella Madrona...That evening (with nearly 100 other Garden Bloggers, a couple of pugs, a...
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...and then a big box of plants showed up
Earlier this spring I replied to an email asking if I would be interested in receiving some plants to trial, I said yes—and then promptly forgot all about it. Fast forward to last week, I was working...
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There was visit to Rare Plant Research (plants were purchased)
The Rare Plant Research (RPR) open house came around again on the 3rd weekend of May, as it always does. I've attended this event almost every year since buying our house (garden) in 2005. I wasn't...
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The Leos finally have a home...
In my book, Fearless Gardening, I wrote: "Putting together vignettes within the garden is a chance to be creative on a small scale... The process—and it is a process—may start with a newly acquired...
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A weekend road-trip north, with all the trimmings
I'm back from a long weekend up to the Tacoma/Seattle area where managed to squeeze in visits to two botanic gardens, shopping at five nurseries, touring a conservatory, attending two plant/garden...
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Exploring in the Mt Hood National Forest (while Andrew fished)
This fishing trek took us deep into part of the Mt Hood National Forest that burned back in 2020 as part of the Riverside Fire: "In the early hours of September 8, 2020 a small fire was reported near...
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Eight months of Mondays in the back garden (Part One)
If you're a regular blog reader you know I hate winter—and since autumn is basically the opening act for winter, I can't help but also lump it into the "dislike" category. It's too bad really, because...
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Eight months of Mondays in the garden (Part Two)
If you missed Monday's post you'll want to go read that introduction, so you understand what I'm up to with this series. Today we have three different views to cover so this is the most photo heavy of...
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Eight months of Mondays in the garden (Part Three)
Today's post is the third and final of the series. In my introduction (at the top of the first post) I shared why I decided to take all this photos, and I've shared my thoughts about each photo as we...
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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory at Wright Park
As I mentioned in my overview post on June 5th, I was recently up in the Tacoma area for a garden talk and stopped in at the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory at Wright Park. The conservatory at...
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Wonder of the Woodlands, a book by Françoise Weeks
I am thrilled to share with you Françoise Weeks' new book; Wonder of the Woodlands: The Art of Seeing and Creating with Nature...Françoise is originally from Belgium, but calls Portland home. I've been...
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About that big bromeliad bowl and the tree crime
There were a couple of things from the "Eight months of Mondays" posts that I wanted to revisit in a little more detail. First up, that big bowl of bromeliads. What's that all about?Having replanted...
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A trio of HPSO Open Gardens
Is there anything better than being invited to wander through someone else's garden? It's open garden season here in Portland and I'm trying to take advantage every chance I get. Today we'll visit...
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An agave follow-up (whatever happened to?)
Last December I adopted a pair of agaves that had been languishing on a shelf without sunlight, soil, or water for over three years (a pandemic plant abandonment). This is what they looked like when I...
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Dancing Oaks Nursery and Gardens, a long overdue visit
It's hard for me to believe, but my last visit to Dancing Oaks Nursery in Monmouth, Oregon, was way back in 2021—and it took place in April! Hardly prime gardening season. Back then I broke my visit...
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Plants doing exceptionally well (and one that's still not)
As I've written about (at length), last winter was a nightmare, there was so much plant death. However, on the flip side, I've noticed there are a few plants in the garden that are doing exceptionally...
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A garden visit in Battle Ground, Washington
Mid-June I made the trek up to Battle Ground, Washington (a suburb of Vancouver, WA, just 30 minutes north of Portland), to visit the private garden of Lori and Richard Vollmer, names that will sound...
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Taking a vacation day...
I'm just not feeling it today. The heat, the holiday, the state of the union. I'm taking a vacation day and going out to talk to the birds in my garden, although mine are black crows instead of white...
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A visit to Emily's garden, in Oregon City
I've been hinting for awhile now, hoping that Emily (proprietor of the online plant shop In Search of Small Things) would host a Portland area Garden Bloggers plant swap/happy hour so we could see her...
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