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Magnolia laevifolia is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
I love magnolias, in fact even the word “magnolia” makes me happy. Thank god I’m not going to have children because if I did I might just have to name our first born Magnolia, it could just almost be...
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An annual outing with my fellow plant lovers...(part 1)
It’s a tradition, four years strong. The Thursday before the big HPSO plant sale a group of friends and I head out for a day-long adventure. That day was April 10th, we started at Xera Plants retail...
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An annual outing with my fellow plant lovers...(part 2)
Yesterday I shared the first half our outing, with stops at Xera and Secret Garden Growers. After grabbing lunch we headed to Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants, a nursery I'd only just learned about thanks to...
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Podophyllum pleianthum is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
The first time you see a big healthy clump of Podophyllum pleianthum is a memorable moment, it's such a big glossy, alien-looking leaf. Hands down the most beautiful plant I'd ever seen was spotted in...
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Just a quick walk around the garden
Springtime is all about the discovery, and while I am constantly checking-up up on things in person I haven’t really posted much about this spring in the garden, as a whole. Here’s a little walk around...
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Stepping backwards when all I wanted was to move forward…
It feels like I’ve been working for years now to make our garden feel more enclosed and intimate. However it seems whatever progress toward that goal I had achieved has been completely erased,...
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"The desert vegetation is all gray. Some is gray-blue, some is gray-green, but all of the typical plants are gray. And so are the lizards, rattlesnakes, coyotes, deer, and most of the birds. Gray is...
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Banksia blechnifolia is my favorite plant in the garden; this week…
Last Saturday we took down the walls on the shade pavilion greenhouse, an annual milestone for sure. From here on out it's happy outdoor living! (okay for 6 months...) Of course before the...
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Just hanging around...
As I've mentioned before, finding tasteful hanging containers is not easy, I treasure the ones I have. On the left (below) is an old IKEA offering. For years it had been planted up with a mishmash of...
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It’s time we talk about my favorite subject…agaves!
No, this isn’t a full-fledged agave report, just a few random agave highlights...This photo was taken on November 30th, 2013. I walked around the garden that day enjoying my plants, because severe cold...
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Control and Chaos
Last Friday we took a different route across town to meet friends for dinner. On the way I spotted this line of perfectly manicured cones, in a perfectly manicured lawn...I wonder if the bright green...
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Opuntia aciculata is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
This week’s favorite plant is another in a container, not that it has to be. It spent the entire winter outside, stuck in a drive way planter waiting for spring. No it’s in a container simply because I...
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An update on the Agave burial mounds…
I've always been somewhat skeptical of mounds or berms in the garden. Unless done well they just look silly. Like you buried an elephant and then planted on top of it. I'm not claiming these are done...
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Eryngium maritimum, I bought a replacement and then…
I'd given up my Eryngium maritimum for dead. It should be hardy to 20 degrees BELOW zero but last winter the growing tip got hard and crusty and then the whole plant just sort of melted and...
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Bountiful Farms, accidentally....
Last Friday I had business south of town, down Salem way, I was visiting a couple of wholesale nurseries to talk with their growers. Anytime you're off Interstate 5 and traveling the back roads of the...
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Bloomday for May 2014...
It's May! It's Bloomday! And it's hot, a new record high yesterday in Portland of 91F, today we back of to a more "reasonable" (not really, not for mid-May) 88F. So let's start this bloomday show with...
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Quercus dentata 'Pinnatifida' is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
This week’s favorite is a tree I bought last fall, at that time it had only a handful of crispy copper leaves still attached. Watching it bust out with new growth this spring has been amazing…The tiny...
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The Evil Vine
For the first 4 or 5 years we lived in this house I did weekly battles with bindweed. It grew up into the privet on the north side of our backyard. At first I pulled armfuls (depriving the plant of the...
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Rare Plant Research 2014 style...
I’m a sucker for tradition, especially traditions that involve plants. Last weekend was the annual Rare Plant Research open house, I haven’t missed a single year since my first back in 2006! This year...
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One Word Wednesday, red...
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