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The Hilderbrand Garden
Today I'm sharing the 3rd HPSO garden visit Andrew and I made on a hot Sunday back in July. Earlier we'd stopped at the Old Hurlburt School Gardens and then the Hansen-Winter Garden. Both the...
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Favorite plants, at the end of September
When I realized this was the last Friday of the month I briefly considered calling an end to the “Fav’s of the Month” meme. It’s been a nice long ride but perhaps it was time to put it to bed. Then I...
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In a Vase on Monday, the "Goodbye Neighbors" edition
These (sad, yet beautiful) Hydrangeas grow along our driveway, in a narrow strip of land that belongs to the house next door. With modern zoning and setback regulations this scene would not be repeated...
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The 2015 Ornamental Cabbage and Kale Challenge
I have been rather vocal in regard to my dislike of ornamental cabbage and kale. Like mums and pansies they represent (to me) a gaudy, temporary, celebration of the changing seasons, aka “the end of...
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Lost in a leaf...
Does a single leaf make a vignette? I think so, when there are as many colors and lines as this...Joining up with the Wednesday Vignette meme hosted by Anna at Flutter & Hum.All material ©...
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My Garden, Tour 2015, Part 1 - Streetside
It's become an annual tradition, one I rely on immensely from year to year. Being able to look back over photos of my garden and get a comprehensive snapshot of each summer - it's priceless. I am a...
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My Garden, Tour 2015, Part 2 - The Private Parts
So here we are, walking into the back garden 2015 style (2014 tour here). I split this year's tour into two parts (yesterday covered the public side) because I have so many photos of the back garden...
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Agavegate!
Shortly after seeing my friend JJ's carrot gate I started dreaming of having an Agave gate. I sketched a few ideas, and tried to get in touch with the artist who did the carrot gate (she's also done a...
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The Ornamental Cabbage and Kale Challenge, in my garden
You knew my ornamental cabbage and kale plantings would include Agaves right?Last week I announced the Ornamental Cabbage and Kale Challenge. I've had a shift in attitude about how I think of these...
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Surveying From High
Joining with Flutter & Hum and her Wednesday Vignettes.All material © 2009-2015 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
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So that's what's on the other side of the wall!
I've written about this garden a couple of times, most recently last April when I did an unexpected drive-by and took these photos and several others.Wondering what exactly goes on behind that wall has...
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Fake
I drive by this "lawn" on my way home from Xera Plants. While the rest of Portland's lawns have gone golden for the dry season (minus the hundreds of Dandelions which manage to remain green all summer)...
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In a Vase on Monday - the Ornamental Cabbage and Kale Challenge edition
I'm breaking the rules. Not everything in this vase came from my garden. You can probably guess which element is the interloper...Yes, it's the big ole ornamental cabbage. I know. But I had to. It's...
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Passionately praying for a late frost...
Look! A bud on my Passiflora jamesonii 'Coral Seas'...Well it was a bud, then it became a flower.As you might recall back in August I was all worked up about none of my Passiflora blooming this...
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Wednesday Vignette, autumn from my front porch
I shared this photo yesterday on Instagram and love it so much I thought it was worth sharing here as well. Thank you Anna/Flutter & Hum for the excuse to focus on one-off, spontaneous, photos...
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October 2015 Bloomday
I was talking with a friend the other day, explaining my rather unorthodox approach to autumn. You'll find none of the usual October blooms in my garden, a fact that had me thinking I had nothing much...
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Visiting the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market
I've wanted to visit the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market for a couple of years now. I'd planned to satisfy my curiosity during the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in February but that hadn't worked...
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A visit to Sky Nursery...
After visiting the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market I zoomed up north of Seattle to Shoreline, WA for a visit to visit Sky Nursery. Sky was around when I lived in Seattle (way before actually - they...
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Taco Time, obviously
In the early days of my knowing Andrew, before we were dating, when we were simply coworkers, the discussion of Mexican fast food came up. He mentioned Taco Bell in a somewhat favorable manner and I...
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Wednesday Vignette, from the Celeste Campbell Senior Center
My Wednesday Vignette posts tend to stick to a single photo, I like the simplicity and spontaneity that encourages. I'll deviate slightly from that format this week, simply because I have a bit of a...
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