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The Garden Conservancy Tour 2014, garden #2
This was officially the third garden on the tour, but the second I visited. Called the Manzanita Garden it was instantly my favorite. Looking back now my favorite would actually consist of parts of...
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From Pomarius to Bella Madrona, my photos from the Garden Bloggers Fling…
The fact I had already visited (and posted about) the gardens and nurseries on the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling (as well as being one of the organizers), kept my camera from getting a real workout that...
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Nice green roof!
Portland is known as a green city. Both for our environmental practices as well as our rain-fueled, mossy-green, garden culture. Turns out we've also got some pretty fabulous green roofs...What you...
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Visiting Old German Town Gardens (finally)...
This is a garden I've heard many stories about, but had never actually visited. Seems every time they open for Hardy Plant Society of Oregon members I'm out of town. When the GB Fling planning...
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Silver falls fails, go for the licorice…
Last April I shared my idea for filling in new (winter death caused) gaps in the front garden plantings. I needed something to bind the smaller plants together while I waited for the Blue Pacific Shore...
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The Portland Garden Conservancy Tour 2014, I'm all out of order now...
This, The Urban Garden, was my last stop on the Conservancy Open Days tour but the one I feel like posting about next so what the heck. I'm jumping ahead.I've driven by this garden on occasion but for...
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Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace' a rebirth...
The photo below was taken last November, at that time I was singing the praises of my Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace'. I was also coming to terms with the fact I needed to move it to a better...
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Let's play "Where's Lila?"...
"Where's Lila?" is a game I frequently find myself playing when I'm working in the garden. One minute she's there beside me and the next minute I have no idea where's she's gone...And just when I think...
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Lupinus albifrons is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
I went out to do some watering the other morning and realized the leaves on my Lupinus albifrons were facing towards me, back at the house, to the east. Just the day before I'd been admiring them as I...
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Bloomtown revisit, 2014...
My first visit to the personal garden of Darcy Daniels (owner/designer at Bloomtown) was in 2011, you can see photos from that visit here. I recently stopped by for a follow-up and was excited to see...
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The Portland Garden Conservancy Tour 2014, The Melody Garden
Walking up to this, the The Melody Garden, I couldn't help but fantasize about that tangerine house as the back-drop to my garden rather than the hideous split wall of taupe and burnt-brick that I have...
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It was time to get rid of the cucumber vine…
I love cucumbers, I love the foliage of the cumber vine…it’s a match made in heaven!I especially love it when the vines start to take over and wrap themselves around everything…However the love affair...
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The movable garden...
You never know where a chance meeting might lead. Lila and I paid a visit to Cistus Nursery awhile back, if I remember correctly it was early spring of 2013. While there we made the acquaintance of a...
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Passiflora 'Sunburst' is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
I’d been running internet searches for orange flowering vines when I ran across a listing for Passiflora ‘Sunburst’ on the website for Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants. It was beautiful, exotic and SOLD OUT....
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Bloomday, August 2014
It's August, it's Bloomday, and the garden is tired. Heck so am I! This summer has been full of sunny warm (hot) days and things are looking a little frazzled around the edges. I am not complaining,...
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The Ferrante Garden, our last garden from the 2014 Portland Garden...
Wow I really stretched that one out didn't I? Finally we're at the last of my posts from the Garden Conservancy's Open Days here in Portland back in June.Don't ya just love a gardened hellstrip? I...
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Drink your plants
I know, usually the saying is “eat your plants,” but why not drink them too? We recently enjoyed dinner at Mextiza and were about to order a nice smooth sipping tequila…When down at the bottom of the...
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Garden Tour, 2014
There are times I am certain this blog is more for me than it is for my readers. Being able to look back at a visual record of my garden over the last 5 and a half years is priceless. Last year I did a...
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Agave weberi, my favorite plant in the garden this week…
When I mentioned that Mr. Big, my Agave Americana ‘variegata’ was in danger of being unseated as the largest agave in my garden Renee asked who his competition was. At the time, and pretty much always,...
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Tower o'spikes...
I've always had an aversion to strawberry pots, the shape and the pockets. I find them vulgar. Yes I know, it's a weird opinion but it's mine. So imagine how surprised I was when I spotted this...
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