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WWTT #20, How to plant for certain failure...
Last Thursday evening I flew up to Spokane, WA, for a long weekend at home with my parents. Our first stop was an old favorite hole-in-the-wall for take out dinner. We were quite shocked to see it had...
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Garden Blogger's Bloomday for May 2015
Here we are, half way through May! Too fast, it's all going too fast. Don't you agree? Yesterday I jokingly said to someone that August is going to be here before we know it. Then I realized it wasn't...
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Rare Plant Research Open House, a decade of fun!
Last weekend was the annual Open House at Rare Plant Research, a nursery in Oregon City, OR. It wasn't until emailing with a friend that I realized this was my 10th year to attend. 10 years of being in...
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Oh happy day! My Embothrium coccineum is going to bloom...
Wrapping up an afternoon in the garden and what should my tired eyes see but this:Squee!!! My Embothrium coccineum is going to bloom!!! After seeing the ones just down the street at McMenamins Kennedy...
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The passion for horticulture is alive and well in Spokane
As I've mentioned I recently made a trip up to Spokane, Washington. It's home, where I grew up and where my parents and one of my brothers (along with his family) still live. When I moved back to...
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Spokane's Garden Expo (and more)...
As I mentioned yesterday the Spokane Garden Expo took place on Saturday, May 9th. It was my first time to attend and I didn't know what to expect...The event takes place on the campus of Spokane...
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Did I commit Cotinus murder?
You've heard the term "Crepe Murder" of course, those poor (beautiful) trees butchered by people who have some strange need to control their plants. Well, I wonder if I've gone and committed Cotinus...
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My #plantgang
As with many things one discovers on the internet I can't quite remember how I discovered the Urban Jungle Bloggers. The founders (Igor and Judith) say: "We are bloggers, we are friends and we love...
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One more Spokane nursery visit: Tower Perennial Gardens
I've been here before, but this is the summeriest I've ever seen it.This patch of Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' reminded me that mine, at that time, was MIA. Since then it has started to...
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Favorites wrap up for May, 2015
I was going to be better this month. Post a few favorites during the month, rather than waiting until the end of month wrap-up and then marching through them all. But of course I wasn’t.Earlier in the...
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A few flowers for the first of June...
It's June 1st and my thoughts are firmly in summer mode. Oh I know it's not really summer, but it sure feels like it. A few days in the mid-80's, sun, and blooms! The first flower on my Embothrium...
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So indeed there is less lawn...
This latest project has been working it's way along, in one form or another, since last September. That's when I realized I wanted to remove a strip of lawn in front of the palm.I last wrote about this...
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WWTT #21, from Louisville!
Back in March I mourned the loss of my plant-nerd friend Bridget as she moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Well as it turns out I may have lost a local friend but I gained a danger garden correspondent!...
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The streets of North Hollywood
Back to Southern California, back to December 24th 2014...We'd discovered a great used bookstore in North Hollywood (The Iliad, excellent gardening section) and as usual Andrew needed about an hour...
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The Garden Bloggers' Bazaar, won't you come?
This coming Saturday, June 13th, my fellow area garden bloggers and I are having a sale! We've gone through our garden sheds, potting benches, and greenhouses and pulled things we're no longer using....
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My chartreuse circle pot...
Back when I wrote about my visit to Rare Plant Research I mentioned my Bromeliad purchases were Circle Pot bound. The chartreuse Circle Pot that is.While I loved my orange Circle Pot hanging from our...
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Bookstores and books...
If everything goes according to plan, when this post goes live I'll be sleeping off a long return flight from the 2015 Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto, Canada.Andrew joined me on the trip, and if...
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Monsters (!) in the parking strip...
I remember reading of a gardener in the Los Angeles area who had a neighbor yell at her for planting Euphorbia in the front garden. How DARE she plant something that was so incredibly toxic where...
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Garden Blogger's Bloomday - June 2015
It seems that every Bloomday I'm writing (or at least thinking) "wow...how did it get to be the 15th of the month already!?" Breaking with tradition this month I can't quite believe it's only the 15th....
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Six days in Toronto...
The official "Garden Bloggers Fling" festivities kicked off late enough on Thursday, June 4th that Andrew and I had an entire day to explore Toronto and adjust to the time difference. I've previously...
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