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Visiting the garden of Keeyla Meadows, during the 2013 Garden Bloggers Fling…
This is exactly the garden I would expect from the woman who wrote Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel...Subdued and understated, no. Exuberant and...
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Wandering a Bay Area neighborhood…
While I loved the excitement of three intense days spent touring gardens and nurseries with my fellow garden bloggers during the Fling, I finally hit the wall in Keeyla Meadows’ garden. Too much!!! I...
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Buffalo Bill’s Exotic Cactus Ranch, again (yawn….)
During our mid-September trip to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, we stopped in at my fav, Buffalo Bill’s Exotic Cactus Ranch...Or rather we stopped by twice. The first time they were closed due to...
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Green-wall and more, another post freeze follow-up...
Remember that green-wall I spotted last summer? I was excited it was nearby so I could keep an eye on how it performs over the seasons. Well I'd actually kind of forgot about it, until I drove by last...
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Happy 2014...
Wishing all the best for you and yours in the New Year!(Lila may have celebrated a little too hard last night)
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Aucuba japonica ‘Longifolia’ is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
During our little arctic nightmare in December I remember casting a glance at the Aucuba japonica ‘Longifolia’ and wondering if they were going to make it (I have three). None of them were protected...
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Well, lookie there...
Turning the basement plant lights on one morning something caught my eye, a very slight pink tint where there never has been...Looking down into the cup formed by the leaves I was surprised to see...
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The Vercler Castle
Our Christmas was spent in Spokane, WA, visiting my family; it was all very low key and relaxing. In other words exactly what we needed. The one thing my parents insisted we absolutely had to do was...
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Adiantum venustum is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
This week’s favorite is easily overlooked most of the year. It’s small and kind of fragile looking; so much so I was sure it couldn’t be hardy when I first saw one. But it is, rock sold hardy to Zone...
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Plant Jewels of the High Country
I picked up ‘Plant Jewels of the High Country’ at Powell’s Home and Garden Thanksgiving weekend. As a used book (published in 1972 by Pine Cone Publishers in Medford, Oregon) it was a bargain. Once I...
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What if there was always a blue sky above?
After weeks of fog and solid cloud cover here in Portland we finally enjoyed a few (mostly) sunny days last weekend. It is amazing how a blue sky above takes a weight off my shoulders and the blinders...
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A sunny Saturday in New Mexico…
Last October, the afternoon of my father-in-laws funeral in Truth or Consequences, NM, I went for a long walk. I knew I was leaving New Mexico the next day, returning to a grey and rainy Portland. And...
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Planting up my Case Study Ceramic Planter from Modernica...
Last month I received an email from the fine folks at Modernica asking if they could use some of my photos for their blog. Truth be told I was a little embarrassed to say yes because the photos they...
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More from Portland Nursery…
I took so many photos during my visit to Portland Nursery I thought I’d share a few more (plus there were other plant purchases we need to discuss). Pedilanthus or Devil's backbone, I couldn’t buy this...
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My newly purchased Bloomday for January 2014
The local go-to plant for January blooms seems to be the hellebore, sadly none of mine are open yet. You'd think my standing over them with camera in hand would have pushed the flowers over the edge...
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Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
Recently I arrived home at dusk, the light from the sky was steel-grey and the foliage in the front garden all sort of blended together. Well, everything except for the foliage of the Yucca filamentosa...
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Hey, there was a cactus on that roof!
I enjoy taking different routes. See a street you’ve never been on that’s going the direction you are…take it! You never know what you might find. The odd addition to this house (is that plywood?)...
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Colorful conifers at Portland Nursery
I guess it’s time I confessed. In fact most of you have probably already figured it out, maybe even ahead of me...I’m starting to “get” the appeal of the conifer. Now let’s not get crazy, I’m not going...
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Something’s missing…
A better blogger would have had a camera in hand to record the moment. Instead I chose to respect the dead and conduct a solemn, unrecorded removal. The giant Acacia pravissima is gone.The one I...
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Podocarpus matudiae is my favorite plant in the garden this week…
Last week the Outlaw wrote a blog post showing a line of very realistic looking fake plants. This got me thinking about my new Podocarpus matudiae, a gift from Sean Hogan at Cistus Nursery. When he...
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