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Visiting Little Prince of Oregon Nursery
Last weekend I had one of those "how lucky am I/only in Oregon" moments. For years Little Prince of Oregon Nursery as been my go-to source for sedum and sempervivum. Last Sunday I, along with 11 garden...
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General Bubba Crush
After visiting The San Diego Botanic Garden I made a quick stop just down the street, at Sunshine Gardens.I would like to see this nursery at the height of the season, I bet it's amazing. My visit fell...
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The California Cactus Center
Today we visit the California Cactus Center in Pasadena, this was our second visit, the first time I had no idea what to expect – this time I was better prepared. CCC is a place where there’s a lot to...
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March Bloomday for 2015
March! The month when Portland gardens are typically exploding with blooming bulbs. It's been an early spring here, but there are still a few crocus, lots of daffodils, and the tulips are just getting...
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San Diego's Balboa Park
Our time in San Diego was short, only three full days to explore the city. Rather than running around trying to see it all we decided to take it slow and spend two of those days exploring Balboa Park...
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The Old Cactus Garden at Balboa Park
I knew we were getting close to the Old Cactus Garden when the palm plantings started to thin out and blooming Agave attenuata started appearing.Here's a sad truth about the plants everywhere in Balboa...
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The last walk of the "winter" for Les…
A long day on the phone and at the computer, I needed a break. A slight drizzle was falling, just enough that I didn’t feel like working in the garden. Then it hit me, I needed to take a walk so I...
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Learn from my mistakes, the pruning edition
A couple weeks back, on the plant lust blog, I wrote about how much I'm enjoying pruning, almost as much as planting. Shortly after that I was "talking" with a blog acquaintance about pruning trees,...
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The Green Door Gardens
I came up with a few different titles for this post, another being "Saying Goodbye." Today we'll look at a couple of gardens put together by my friend Bridget. You may remember her from this post,...
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Back to Balboa Park: the Lath House and Australian Garden
The Botanical Building, aka The Lath House, was built for the 1915-16 Exposition held in San Diego's Balboa Park and is one of the largest lath structures in the world.It is eminently photographable,...
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WWTT #20, Oh no! They didn't?!
This moral outrage was spotted in San Diego. Killing time while Andrew finished up in a bookstore I noticed a florist sign down the street a bit, I figured being in extreme Southern California there...
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My favorite plants in the garden, for March 2015
I don't believe I've ever featured Rheum palmatum as a favorite plant, but it is. And this just might be my favorite stage...Dark purple leaves emerging from a papery lifeless "stump"...Felty wrinkled...
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In a vase, on the last Monday in March
So there was pruning. The end of last week was sunny and warm and amazing, I pruned, evidently that’s what I do now since it seems to be all that I talk about. Waste not want not.I didn’t intend to end...
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The Desert Garden at Balboa Park
The Desert Garden at Balboa Park is separated from the rest of the park by a busy street. To get there you cross over the boulevard on a footbridge, which provides a nice overview of the park as you...
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Wednesday Vignette - sunshine on cinnamon spikes
My friend Anna, who blogs at Flutter & Hum, has started weekly posting called: Wednesday Vignette. Her concept is explained here, but can be summed up as a celebration of combinations that inspire....
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Nursery Nostalgia
Headed home from running an errand I realized it's been forever since I stopped in Marbott's Nursery. Well there's no time like the present!This nursery is a throwback, it reminds me of a couple old...
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Visiting the San Diego Zoo... (flamingos, and pandas and koalas, oh my!)
Zoos tend to depress me. How can you find pleasure in looking at other animals caged and on display? I don't. I wasn't entirely on board with our paying the HUGE entrance fee to visit the San Diego...
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Rediscovering a drive-by garden
I rediscovered this garden in much the same manner that I initially did, took a wrong turn and there I was. It’s gotten a lot greener than when I first saw it, back then the rusty metal was the prime...
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Drawing Nature into the Urban Landscape
Back in February I wrote about a daylong seminar held here in Portland “Changing Times, Changing Landscapes: Drawing Nature into Urban Landscape Design” a joint effort of Pacific Horticulture and the...
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More nursery nostalgia, a visit to Gindhart Nursery
Last Friday was Andrew's birthday, in an attempt to get him to take the day off I came up with a plan, we'd head south and explore Oregon's "other" college town. We've visited Eugene (home of the...
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