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Trees…I bought a new one!
I’ve been contemplating what to plant when the privet comes out next spring, you know, to have a bit of a plan to work from so I don’t go all crazy and impulse buy (haha). However there was one...
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Visiting Kubota Gardens...
A good friend of mine in Seattle has raved about Kubota Gardens for years. He’s invited me to their spring and fall plant sales, which unfortunately always seem to happen on a busy weekend when I can’t...
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I’m thinking of a number between 1 and…
A couple weeks ago The Outlaw Gardener mentioned he had 32 agaves in his collection. That sounds like a lot doesn’t it? Especially for someone who lives in the Pacific Northwest. At last count my agave...
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Wordless Wednesday, oh Clifford…
(Clifford is our Magnolia macrophylla)All material © 2009-2013 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
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A year of favorites…
It’s been a year now, since I started posting a weekly “favorite plant in my garden.” I was pretty sure I’d have no problem coming up with a favorite each week, and I haven’t. In fact most weeks I...
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I bought a plant at Walmart, do you still respect me?
I live a charmed gardening life. Within easy driving distance of my home are a multitude of exceptional independent nurseries and garden centers. I support them with my blog and (god knows) my money....
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Filling the void…
Andrew is fond of saying “nature abhors a vacuum and so does Loree.” While I might debate him on that, after all I recognize a good design must include negative space, I do understand his point. I tend...
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The Cowboy’s Garden
When last we joined the early September/Kitsap Peninsula adventures of my garden blogging friends and me we had just left Celestial Dream Gardens. The plan was to journey on to WeHoP (Western...
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The tree with a hairy leg...
Oh the unexpected benefits of walking a dog. She pauses, I pause. She takes care of business I look around. And see this…A furry tree trunk! Seems the grass next door found a welcome spot for its tips...
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Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’ is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
While picking up more of Clifford's fallen leaves my eye was drawn to the Euphorbia 'Blackbird', behind the agaves.I bought two small 4” plants last spring at Xera Plants (no, not all of those plants...
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Bloomday for November, 2013
In my garden November’s Bloomday seems to be much more about what has been and what will be than what is. I'm not complaining, just stating the facts. First we'll look at what has been. Chasmanthium...
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Agave crop circles
Scanning the captive agaves the other day I noticed the lower leaves of this Agave parryi var. neomexicana turning an ugly shade of blackish purple. After pulling it out for closer inspection I...
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Celebrating a birthday
I’m going to start this post with a bit of a disclaimer: if you're not a dog person, or at least a pet lover, you’re going to be rolling your eyes and thinking me insane. You’ve been warned.We recently...
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Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace' is my favorite plant in the garden (this...
As we enter this time of short, mostly wet days it’s the plants I can see from the windows and doors (as I come and go) that get the most admiration. This is the view from one of our bedroom windows as...
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Visiting Western Horticultural Products…
I first met Sally Priest of WeHoP at the Farwest Show in 2012; the cool plants in their booth stopped me in my tracks. Once I started chatting with Sally something clicked and I just knew this was a...
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When my Amsonia hubrichtii grows up and other random things…
Ah the beauty of a mature clump of Amsonia hubrichtii in the fall...I stopped by a friends house to snap a couple of photos of a different plant but was stopped in my tracks by this beauty. When mine...
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Far Reaches Farm, stop #6 on our Kitsap Peninsula plant adventure…
Continuing our day-long nursery/garden adventure my garden blogging friends and I piled back in our cars (after wrapping up our visit to WeHoP) and headed for Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend, WA....
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And finally, The Desert Northwest...
A couple days before our Kitsap Peninsula adventure I got an email from the organizer, Peter (aka The Outlaw, but you probably already knew that), asking what time I needed to be back to Tacoma to meet...
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In a word, cold.
Last week saw the coldest temperatures of the season, a low of 26.6 in my garden. I know that's not cold by most standards but hey, I'm a wimp! The cool-down had been predicted, and so I had plenty of...
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I’m thankful for…
Pinterest! Every once and awhile I notice there’s a pin on Pinterest sending a lot of traffic to my blog. Of course I have to go see what image is creating the stir, a couple weeks ago it was this...
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