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The garden with the cool chairs (and urns)…
Let’s face it. I’m drawn to plants that are (for the most part) little iffy to overwinter even in my USDA Zone 8 garden. So traveling to Toronto, Ontario, where winter is a reality and snow happens...
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Brilliant and yet…
Yes, it's a terrible photo, but I had to include it so you could get a sense of the space. Chain-link fence at the far side of a residential property. Open field (Portland Public Schools property) on...
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The Toronto Island Gardens
Much has been written about the Garden Bloggers visit to the Toronto Island Gardens. My fellow "Flingers" seem enamored with the idea of island life. No cars on the island, a slower pace, etc. While I...
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That certain “je ne sais quoi”...
Last winter, out on a long walk, I passed a garden with several of my "trigger" plants. You know the ones, they’re unusual and typically a sign that you’ve stumbled upon a kindred spirit. I lifted my...
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A June visit to Cistus Nursery...
Earlier in the month, while I was away (playing in Toronto), things got hot in Portland. What's a gardener without an irrigation system to do but depend on a kindhearted and capable friend? Naturally...
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It’s the last Friday of the month and that means…favorite plants!
Everyone’s on the edge of their seats wondering what my standout plants are this month, right? Well, at the top of my list has got to be the pair of Dierama that are blooming in the garden right now....
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Kicking off American Flowers Week with a visit to My Luscious Backyard…
Getting off the bus at the first stop, on the first morning, of the 2015 GBF in Toronto this is what I saw...This is where we were headed, the home of Sarah Nixon and her business My Luscious Backyard....
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Hug me, a book review and garden mystery...
Some of you might remember a post I did back on June 11th, about a bookstore in Canada that Andrew had found online and we hoped to visit (if you didn't see that post click on that link, it's...
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How many times have you watched your favorite movie? Right, that’s why I can...
I've been here many times, but I've never seen this view.Funny how a simple thing like approaching a familiar destination from the opposite side allows you to see things in a different way.Love this...
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Visiting the Swansea neighborhood gardens
And now for something completely different! Following on the heals of yesterday's post, with it's colorful chaos, these gardens are rather peaceful. Serene and green...We're back in Toronto (the 2015...
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A return to Floramagoria...
This is another garden that was open for the recent HPSO Study Weekend (and was also part of the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland). I was lured back by hints on Facebook that the owners had...
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But what do you think?
Typically I’m all for experimenting and figuring it out as I go. But every once and awhile I want to turn to a knowledgeable friend and ask “what should I do?”….and today that friend is you.Last May I...
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Lee Valley rocks!
I’ve had a long term relationship with the Lee Valley catalogue, when a new issue shows up I can’t wait to pour over its pages (the fabulous, adjustable, stainless steel hanging cables I wrote about...
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Let's have more of that...
It was finally time to complete a couple of small projects I'd been thinking on. Neither of them are terribly innovative - in fact they're both versions of things that I've done before. But when...
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In a vase on Monday - "just can't stand the heat" edition
You may have heard...it's been hot up here in the Pacific Northwest. Even when one does their best to stay on top of watering, things will flop. Case in point several Syneilesis aconitifolia stems had...
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A gardener's work is never done...(and we wouldn't have it any other way)
Those of you that have been reading my ramblings for awhile will, no doubt, recognize this house and garden. I wrote about it back in July of 2013 and then did a follow up in December of that same...
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July Bloomday! (2015)
Happy July Bloomday! July is my very favorite month. I love the winter holidays; the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas is magical. And the week between Christmas and New Years Day is like a long deep...
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Foliage Follow-up in the veggie garden...
I love basil, love it! Can't grow enough of it. I've tried purple basil from seed before, with limited success. This year I spotted some tiny starts in the veggie section of the supermarket nursery....
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Save the date; Green on Green 2015
What do a garden designer, nursery owner, garden blogger, mosaic artist, master of layering in the garden, and a bee keeper all have in common? Their gardens are open for the 2015 Green on Green Tour...
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Somebody stop me!
A week or so ago I updated you on a couple of small projects I’d completed, including a few custom dish planters. I'd intended one of them to stand alone, but looking at I realized (and you agreed)...
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