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Echium wildpretii rescue...
There are very few things that have me dressed and wielding a shovel miles from my home at 7:00 in the morning. This is one of them.On a whim I’d taken Lila with me to run a few errands one day. We...
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Announcing plant lust, the blog!
It was inevitable really. When you get three plant-crazy people like myself and my business partners, Megan and Patricia, together we aren't going to be happy keeping the plant talk to ourselves. We've...
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Pollinator paradise and fun for people too...
It's rare Andrew accompanies me to a Hardy Plant Society of Oregon function but somehow I managed to talk him into attending a presentation given by Annie Hayes, the Annie in Annie's Annuals. We sat...
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Powder and spikes, an odd combination of favorites this week…
Two plants were begging to be featured as favorites this week, two very different plants. The first one is all soft and powdery, Artemisia stelleriana 'Silver Brocade'.Planted as a small 2-inch "basket...
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Let's go to the beach!
For families with kids Labor Day weekend traditionally means summer is at an end, in my part of the world the long weekend is celebrated with one last hurrah before the kids start school and life...
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Farwest Tradeshow, 2014...
August 21st and 22nd found me at the 2014 Farwest Tradeshow here in Portland. This an annual event for the nursery trade, one I’ve attended the last few years. This year my show experience was a little...
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Cassia didymobotrya is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
The sign said “popcorn cassia” and thus caught my attention. I loved the look of the foliage and had decided to purchase it, even before it was pointed out to me that the leaves smelled of buttered...
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Sometimes they just die...
You can probably tell by the title this isn't going to be a pretty post, but if you garden you've no doubt lost plants and can sympathize. Here's my Brachyglottis greyi in better days (June)...And...
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My bad-ass banksia...
This is my Banksia ericifolia, it's bad-ass.This is what's left of a flower spike from last spring. When I bought it it was in full glorious bloom. The remains aren't half back either, especially when...
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A little Hollywood in Portland’s Cully Neighborhood
Last Saturday night, through the magic of the internet, I became aware of an interesting property quite near me which is up for sale. We’re not house hunting but the photos of the garden caught my...
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Discovering new plants...
As I'm sure I've said a dozen times or more, I am very lucky to live in an area rich with amazing nurseries. Just last week I decided to visit Cistus Nursery, no real purpose in mind, just the luxury...
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Colocasia fontanesii is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
Who doesn't love a colocasia? Those big leaves are welcome in most every garden.I'm usually pretty successful overwintering them in the basement. They lose most of their leaves by spring, but they're...
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Garden Bloggers Bloomday for September 2014
September 15th, we're down to the last full week of summer. It's been a good one, hot and sunny, but of course all too fast. It's time for a look at what's blooming as autumn is knocking at the door,...
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Early autumn harvest…
What, you expected apples or pumpkins? Silly. It’s time to harvest the agave pups!I’ve never before separated my Agave americana pups, I think because I’ve suffered from the delusion that if left in...
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Echeveria elegans is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
If I lived in a slightly warmer climate scenes like the one below would be repeated throughout my garden...But since I don’t, they aren’t. And so I enjoy the couple I have, this one especially since...
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WWTT #16
Yes it’s been awhile since we’ve enjoyed a good WWTT post, here we go...Zipping along one day I caught the sight of something out of the corner of my eye. Something that made me stop and turn around,...
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Lunch (and a stroll) in the Pearl…
Earlier in the year my gardening friend, and former neighbor, Bridget, moved to Portland’s Pearl District. “The Pearl” is known for its restaurants, art galleries, shopping and condos. What about...
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The Ricin Report
I almost called this post "the come back kid" but then decided to go with something a little more scandalous, or at least to try. So back towards the end of July when I declared the castor bean...
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My favorite plant this week isn’t growing in my garden...
Months back I toyed with the idea of combining the “my favorite plant” feature with a new one, something along the lines of “what I’m currently lusting after.” Ever since then the fav’s have been...
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Fail!
Here’s a sure-fire recipe for a successful garden vignette:1. Buy a super fabulous (large) focal point urn 2. Score a hard to find (and equally fabulous) plant to put in it3. Bury them behind a couple...
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