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Wednesday Vignette – Aeonium Challenge material?
Visiting a friend I saw these Aeoniums chillin on the wire...I wonder if she's planning to enter the Aeonium Challenge? Are you?Wednesday Vignettes are hosted by Flutter & Hum. All material ©...
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The Aeonium Challenge, contained
That empty container on the right, below, used to have an Agave in it. I decided the textures were too similar and this corner need something different.Enter the Aeoniums...The silver business is...
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Fav's for June...they're a little flat...
The last Friday of June, 2016, kind of snuck up on me. It's a bit of calendar trickery this month with the first of July also being on a Friday.So monthly favorites...I've decided to feature a few low...
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In a vase on Monday, love those Eryngium
Readers of Peter's blog The Outlaw Gardener may recognize the small white vase below.Peter shared images of the vase (with accessories) earlier in the month, and announced he'd be giving it away to...
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The McKee Garden, a stop on the Salem Study Weekend
Most of you are probably familiar with the annual Garden Bloggers Fling, where 80 or so lucky bloggers spend 3 days touring private and public gardens, and nurseries, in the host city (this year is in...
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Wednesday Vignette, 3 to Inspire
Three vignettes (none of them my work) to inspire you to take up The Aeonium Challenge. This first one is the work of Riz Reyes, part of his design for the City Living display at the 2015 Northwest...
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"You and everyone else..."
I happened into Anthopologie the other day, it's always good for a little inspiration. I love the cast planting cubes they're currently displaying.Evidently I'm not the only one.I turned to ask a...
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Cleo – finally!
How long can you carry a crush?I remember overwhelming plant lust when I saw Canna 'Cleopatra' in the garden of Mark & Gaz (of Alternative Eden fame – their plant above and below). That was way...
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In a Vase on Monday on the Fourth of July
Here we are...it's July 4th! A day that to me used to mean hanging out with friends and family under the pretense of celebrating our great nation. However as someone with a dog (deaf as she may be)...
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And so we party, because that's how we plant people roll...
Here in Portland it's been a good year for exotic blooms. I've written about a couple in my garden, but two friends have had blooms so note-worthy they've thrown parties!First up was Heather's...
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Wednesday Vignette – my Cylindropuntia bloomed!
I returned home from a couple of days away and discovered one of my Cylindropuntia was blooming! This is the first ever occurrence here...and gosh, the flowers aren't very showy. Nothing like my other...
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HPSO open garden on Sauvie Island
As I've mentioned another season of garden touring is upon us, happy times these! Somewhere, sometime I'd seen images of Flicker Farm, the garden of Linda Wisner and Chet Orloff and when I saw they...
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Oops! I stopped by Cistus again...
You're not surprised though, are you? After all I was already on the island (yesterday's post) so why wouldn't I? (right?)...Blooming Beschorneria...My most favorite and lusted after Daphne x houtteana...
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In a Vase on Monday – the Ikebana Challenge
You all know I like to participate in the weekly "In a Vase" meme, and since I've now issued 3 "Challenges" (OC&K, Poinsettia and Aeonium) of my own when Cathy (the brains behind the weekly vase...
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The garden of the BIG chimes...
Garden descriptions are such a tricky thing. On the recent Salem Study Weekend I prioritized each day based on the time I had and the descriptions written by the owners. One of the gardens that turned...
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Wednesday Vignette, change is in the air
Below is blue sky vignette from my garden. On the left Cryptomeria japonica 'Rasen' and on the right Eriobotrya japonica. For the longest time I was anti-conifer, but over the years a few have snuck...
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You just never know...
Driving home from a friend's open garden I took a different route than the direct one that got me there. Because you just never know...Ya, it's not often you see a row of three different (large) Agaves...
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July's Bloomday 2016
I am sorry! I don't think I've got all that much blooming this July 15th...but somehow I managed to post 50 photos. I guess I went a little crazy. How to organize so many pictures in a way that makes...
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In a Vase on Monday, Lilies!
If I had the space for a cutting garden it would surely be filled with statuesque, fragrant, lilies – but I don't. Instead I am celebrating the gift of a handful of beauties from my friend Heather.She...
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Aeoniums, what ya'll did with them...
When it was all said and done I received eleven entries for the Aeonium Challenge...yay for that! Although I have to say I think this was a hard one for many. Unlike the other "Challenges," where we...
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