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Walking and spying...
It's been awhile, time to get back out on the sidewalk and see what my neighbors in NE Portland are up to! Love this combination...I had a contoneaster like this in my garden in Spokane. It was...
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Field-trip...destination: Cistus Nursery
It had been a long and tiresome week, so much so I thought I deserved a little treat. Why not take a Friday afternoon trip to Cistus? Why not indeed! En route I stopped to take a look at these Agave...
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More lawn gone…
Last September I posted about a beautiful container that I’d managed to hide behind other plants. This was the container…And here’s where it was hidden, back there behind the melianthis, trachycarpus...
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Have you heard?
Are you a Portland gardener? Have you registered for this Sunday's HPSO program the "The Artful Garden" with Shirley Watts? If not what are you waiting for? After all even Los Angelenos in the know...
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East Bay Nursery
On the last day, in the last hours, of our trip south in September I finally stopped at East Bay Nursery in Berkeley, CA.It wasn't on my list of places to visit but since it was just around the corner...
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All plants, all the time
A garden writer for our Portland newspaper once used the phrase "all plants, all the time" to describe a couple of local nursery owners. She was expressing thanks that these individuals are so...
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February Bloomday, 2015
I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! As you may know yesterday, February 15th, was Garden Bloggers Bloomday…however since I am still in a spin from 3 days in Seattle, 2 spent at the Northwest...
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The 2015 NWFG Show, the vendors
I’m still processing what I saw, and didn’t see, at the 2015 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Thus I will start my coverage with a glimpse of the vendors. My thoughts on this part of the show are...
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City Living, at the 2015 NWFG Show
As I see it there are two reasons to attend a garden show...the people and the plants. Seeing old friends, eavesdropping on strangers, attending the seminars...the people make the show. Then of course...
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Opuntia polyacantha is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
I was out doing a bit of the ongoing winter clean-up when I noticed the Opuntia polyacantha was upright again and showing off it's beautiful spikes.This is what it looked like back in November when we...
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The Display Gardens at the 2015 NWFG Show
I briefly considered posting a photo overview of each and every display garden at the 2015 Northwest Flower and Garden Show, but decided against it. There’s been plenty of detailed coverage of the...
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Robert what did you do to that agave?
Yesterday’s post was long and dense, today’s is just a single scanned image accompanied by the question, WWTT? Or maybe that should be RWWYT? (Robert, what were you thinking?)We moved into this house...
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From the streets of the East Bay...
They'll make an interesting couple, don't you think?So this is it, my final post from our September trip to the Bay Area. It's a collection of things I saw driving, and walking, around the East...
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Change is good, right?
After paying for a custom domain for more years than I'd like to admit (5!) I'm finally using it. What do you care? Will depending on how you get to my blog you might see this warning message as Google...
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The favorite’s wrap-up for February
This unassuming shrub get's the nod as a favorite plant in my garden for February. What is it? Grevillea australis...It's grown fantastically since going in the ground last spring, and it's currently...
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2015 Yard, Garden & Patio Show: the display gardens
Coming on the heels of the Seattle show, with it’s theme “Romance Blossoms” the Portland show was a breath of fresh air, well until you choked on the bark dust (haha, you think I'm kidding but I'm...
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2015 Yard, Garden & Patio Show, the plants & vendors
Up until this year the Yard, Garden & Patio Show had been a production of the Oregon Association of Nurseries. As such the emphasis was heavily on the plants. The show is now owned and produced by...
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San Diego Botanic Garden, Part 1
This is the scene that greets you as you arrive at the San Diego Botanic Garden...My visit occurred on December 20th, 2014. I was concerned the garden would be covered in strings of Christmas lights....
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San Diego Botanic Garden, Part 2
You're back! Yesterday was Part 1 of my visit to the San Diego Botanic Garden, today we continue with a cantua, in the phlox family.If you're trying to follow along on the map we're now climbing up a...
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Stems and branches of inspiration...
Back when I was a 20-something, frustrated, apartment window-sill gardening, Seattleite the floral display component to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show was one of my favorite things. This part...
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