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I got it! (a sought after plant, of course)
This a tale of lust, plant lust. My first sighting of the variegated daphniphyllum was in this garden, such a beautiful plant!How could I not fall in “love”…Then of course there’s the huge specimen at...
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More from Gossler Farms...
As I mentioned yesterday, the weekend before last had me at Gossler Farms Nursery in Springfield, Oregon. I’ve already sheared the biggest highlight of the visit but there was so much else to see!This...
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Tetrapanax papyrifer is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
It's now official, I have no new ideas. I could have sworn that I hadn't featured the tetrapanax as a favorite plant, yet there it is featured last June. Okay, so I never intended to repeat myself but...
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Pot Incorporated at Contained Exuberance
If you've been to the Xera Plants retail shop here in Portland you've no doubt seen the potted creations of Bob Hyland, owner of Contained Exuberace/Hyland Garden Design, who shares their space. While...
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Hiding ugly…
When I posted photos of our new fence like this one…I intentionally cropped them at the point where the color changes on our neighbor’s garage. I wanted you to be able to appreciate the fence, and not...
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Visiting the O’Byrnes nursery and garden…
If you’re a hellebore lover the names Ernie & Marietta O'Byrne are legendary. They’re the plant breeders behind most of the spectacular hellebores now on the market. Their nursery just outside...
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Veratrum californicum is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
Seeing the green tips of Veratrum californicum pushing through the ground is the first, and most reliable, indication that spring has arrived in my garden. The syneilesis (Shredded Umbrella Plant) are...
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Elk Rock Garden
I’ve only visited this garden once before, in February 2013 when the hamamelis were in full bloom. However since they're known for their magnolia collection I figured this was a great time to return,...
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The Testa-Vought Garden, a stop on the 2013 Garden Blogger’s Fling...
This garden was the last stop on a (long, hot) Saturday of garden fun last June. We were told the garden was designed by Bernard Trainor (a little name dropping, understandable) but it was obvious from...
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Meet Louis II…
As regular readers know there are a few plants in my garden that have earned names. Those that come with big personality, or in the case of Louis, remind me of someone I know. Louis, the person, is a...
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The curse of the favorite…
Seventy one favorites, that’s how many “favorite plant of the week” features I’ve done (plus one where I cheated and picked our new fence as a fav). Last weekend as I pulled out the Grevillea junipera...
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Visiting Grey Greer Gardens...
I made one other stop during our recent jaunt to Eugene, Oregon...Greer Gardens.This was my second visit to the nursery (the first was in 2009), and it's been hit hard by time and temperature. I had...
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Joe is in the house!
Okay he’s actually in the garden.This is a wrap on one of my longest running cases of plant lust...I first fell for Agave ‘Joe Hoak’ in October of 2009 when we visited San Marcos Growers in Santa...
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Finding Joe’s big brother…
I potted up and photographed Joe on Friday afternoon. On Saturday I pulled into Cornell Farm Nursery and came face to face with the only other Agave ‘Joe Hoak’ that I’ve ever seen in Oregon, hell only...
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Ceanothus 'Dark Star' is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
I bought my Ceanothus 'Dark Star' last March, when I thought I'd be getting rid of the Sasa palmata and needed something to plant in it's stock tank. Cooler heads prevailed and the bamboo stayed. What...
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The Nichols Garden, my last post from the SF GB Fling…
Here we are, my last garden visit from the 2013 Garden Bloggers Fling in the Bay Area. Coincidentally today marks just 3 months until the kick-off of the Portland Fling, on Friday, July 11th. What an...
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A line and a circle…
The line, it’s a straight one, out about 11ft.That’s the length between my corner of Tetrapanax papyrifer and the red sempervivum next to my neighbor’s driveway. The red sempervivum next to which I...
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It’s time for April’s Garden Bloggers Bloomday...
My garden is very much in transition right now. As I move forward, repairing winter’s destruction, and attempt to make sense of the bare ground where the privet used to be I hadn’t really stopped to...
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The spring Hardy Plant Society of Oregon plant sale…
Last Saturday I attended what's been called the largest plant sale on the West Coast. HPSO's Hortlandia. Every year there seems to be an "it" plant at the sale, one you see over and over again. At...
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After the sale, making a day of it...
As I mentioned yesterday my friends Peter and Alison made the trip down from Tacoma for the big HPSO plant sale. Since they were in town they had to make the trip out Highway 30 and invited me to come...
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