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Back from the Bay, with treasures…
Andrew and I just wrapped up a nice, week-long, trip to California. The best part? We drove! You know what that means…I bought plants. Our first stop was a visit to Gerhard’s wonderful garden in Davis,...
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I've seen the devil and he has “fuzzy” brown spots...
We’d just sat down to dinner when there was a knock at the door. Ready with my standard “no thank you we don’t need whatever it is you’re selling” speech I was surprised to see my friend, and fellow...
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Paulownia tomentosa is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
One day early last spring I had a bit of a garden related crisis. Or maybe I should call it a panic attack. As I've written about here before, I realized there were many people visiting my garden in...
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Visiting Nancyland…
Last July I had the opportunity to visit the garden of Nancy Goldman, which goes by the name Nancyland. The name is sort of an homage, I believe, to her full on embrace of all that makes her happy. If...
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How do they know?
How do they know? Because they do, they know. They know when I've mentally moved them to the "not sure they're earning their keep" side of the garden ledger. The first time this happened was in 2009...
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811, know what’s below - call before you dig
You’re wondering what the heck is up with that title right? Well when I stumbled upon this amazing garden full of cactus and succulents I couldn’t help but notice the address was 811 and that got the...
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Pleioblastus fortunei is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
This pot of variegated bamboo (Pleioblastus fortunei) has been sitting in the same spot since mid-July. It’s gotten water, so it’s not that I’ve been ignoring it. I just didn’t “see” it until last...
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Seeing Red
It tricked me once before, so I wasn’t going to fall for it again. Nope, I was just going to ignore that little splash of red I kept seeing out of the corner of my eye. Until I couldn’t any longer. And...
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Meanwhile over at the neighbor's…
The same winter's day that I unintentionally stumbled upon Nancyland for the first time I also discovered this garden, just up the street. So it was somewhat fitting that the warm summer's evening that...
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Seattle, quick
I recently made the trip up north, first for a Garden Bloggers meet-up and plant exchange at Allison’s in Bonney Lake, WA, and then on up to Seattle to spend a couple of days with friends. It was a...
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October Bloomday 2014, been there/done that...
You know those bloggers that won't ever repeat a bloom? They say something like "the Blah 'blah' was blooming last month so I won't show you it's flowers again this month." I am not that blogger. My...
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Zingiber malaysianum 'Midnight' is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
The last week or so I've gotten up close and personal with most of my container plants. As the rains reappear it's time to move the agaves, cactus and other succulents under cover. I don't really have...
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Ask the locals, my visit to Living Green at Le Souk
When Andrew and I started planning our trip to the Bay Area I emailed Kelly (head planner for the SF GB Fling, garden designer, and all around great lady) to ask about places I should see, maybe there...
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Happy-n-Dry...
Not even 12 hours into the autumn rains and my rain gauge already reported a half inch.Thank goodness our local weather forecasters were on the job and predicting this a week out, that gave me the time...
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Visiting the garden of Bob Hyland and Andrew Beckman
One sunny hot Sunday in August my plant lust partner Patricia and I spent the afternoon touring open gardens. This one, the garden of Bob Hyland and Andrew Beckman was the second we visited that day....
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Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea' is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)...
I cannot remember where it was that I bought Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea' (golden spikemoss) this spring, but I do remember it was 2 qty, 4" containers that I planted. This spot requires plants that...
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Spotted in Berkeley…
Walking down Bancroft Way across from the UC Berkeley Campus I was surprised to see a certain national retailer who’s been facing criticism for some of its questionable choices (and suffering for it)...
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Greg's dry garden...
This is not what most people picture when you mention a "Portland garden"...heck there isn't a single rose, rhododendron or doug fir in sight!These plants don't belong in "rainy Portland!"Oh but they...
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Stock-tank mulch, two ways...
My morning began with a chiropractor appointment, their parking lot was full so I parked on the street. Returning to my car I noticed this...Not your average mulch. I looked up and realized I was in...
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Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple' is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
I’ve never been one to garden with an eye to fall color. Most of the plants I’m drawn to don’t really put on a big fall display and besides, there’s plenty all around me (in the neighborhood) so why...
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