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The HPSO/Garden Conservancy tour is this coming Saturday (check it out!)...
Each year the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon teams up with the Garden Conservancy to arrange a one-day tour of selected private gardens in the greater Portland area, proceeds from the tour are split...
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A teaser...
Today I'm joining up with the wildly popular Wednesday Vignette meme dreamt up and hosted by Anna over at Flutter & Hum. This is a bit of a teaser, a photo taken in a garden I toured last month....
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Evergreen Brick Works...
Let’s go back to June’s Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto...Our Sunday lunch stop was at Evergreen Brick Works, thankfully the planners worked in lots of extra time for us to wander, as there was a lot...
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My favorites feature, for August 2015
Last week, when I wrote a fav post about Correa backhouseana, I was tempted to include the Teucridium parvifolium, a New Zealand shrub, growing right next to it...Tiny leaves...On wiry orange stems,...
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Oh what a mess!
This scene greeted me when I returned home from the Farwest Show on Saturday afternoon.The Weather Gurus had been predicting big rain for the weekend –  over an inch – more rain than we'd seen in...
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Bye Bye Bug (hello plant hauling capacity!)
I took this photo last week while removing my belongings from my '99 Volkswagen Beetle. We'd signed the paperwork the night before to trade it in, I'd owned this car for 13 years (longer than I've...
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The Blue Agave, a vignette
I had no plans to post for this Wednesday's Vignette meme, but walking through the garden after an early morning shower had me seeing the colors of this corner in a different way. The blue agave...
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The garden of Hansen-Winter...part 1
Sometimes "The Powers That Be" are strong enough, and so determined, that they don't send you just one sign, but a second. Recently I was that lucky. I met the owner/designer/curator/laborer of this...
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The garden of Hansen-Winter...part 2
We're back at the Hansen-Winter garden. The way I've posted is a bit misleading in that this is what we saw when we first got out of the car...I later learned this part of the garden is new,...
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It's Labor Day and you know what that means...
Are you expecting me to say that means summer is over? Nope! We still have over two weeks of summer left (16 days), and that's just "real" calendar summer. Throw in El Nino and/or an Indian Summer and...
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Farwest 2015
August 27-29 brought the Farwest Nursery Industry Trade Show to the Oregon Convention Center, this is my 7th year attending. Walking up to the building (those are its "famous" twin spire towers - which...
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Bocconia frutescens is my favorite plant in the garden, this week...
I started my "favorite plant" feature back in 2012 because a particular plant was looking extraordinary and I wanted needed to share it with my gardening friends. Walking in the back door the other day...
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Pomarius, even more beautiful than before...
I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I hadn't been back to Pomarius Nursery since they hosted the opening night of the Portland Garden Bloggers Fling in July of 2014. I'd meant to, I'd thought about it,...
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My borrowed (palm) view...
We've had a nice run of sunny, cool, mornings. Sunny mornings make me happy, they're the best way to start a day. Recently, on such a morning, I glanced out the living room window at our neighbor's...
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September Bloomday, 2015
It's another Garden Blogger's Bloomday, #9 for 2015 with only 3 more to go! As always our hostess for this floral celebration is Carol at May Dreams Gardens - she's got the links to all the blogs...
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A pick-me up...
Making his "I'm on my way home" call one evening Andrew heard the tone in my voice. The one that says I'm on the brink of a meltdown (it had been a very rough day). He made a quick stop at our...
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The Toronto Botanical Garden
The final event of the 2015 Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto, Canada, was held at the Toronto Botanical Garden. Word is that this tiny gem (it's almost 4 acres) might be North America's smallest...
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Not the Toronto Botanical Garden
Yesterday we toured the Toronto Botanical Garden. I mentioned a couple of times how small the garden is, but when you're there you might not realize it. Why? Because the garden sits adjacent to Edwards...
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In a Vase on Monday: "I can't just throw them away" edition...
The foliage of Crocosmia 'Orangeade' had long been brown and crispy, however when I finally got around to cutting it back there were still many branches with those long, curvy, sexy seed pods on them....
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Miscellany from the Toronto Fling
Well here we are - three and a half months after our visit to Toronto I'm finally finishing up writing about it. Today a few left-overs that were too good not to share...The official Fling festivities...
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