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Elk Rock Garden at the Bishop's Close
The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon offers small classes or workshops to its members throughout the year, a couple weeks ago I finally attended one called “Winter Walk at Bishop's Close Garden." I’d...
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Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens, that’s a mouth full! Even though I've finally mastered the tongue twisters Hakonechloa and Eryngium I prefer to call this fav by its much easier to pronounce common...
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I’m watching you (walking the hood)…
I took a walk around my neighborhood back in early November, taking note of a plants I thought might not make it through winter, depending on what mother nature had in store for us. I thought it would...
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50% off at Digs!
Hey fellow Portlander's...down that coffee and get dressed because you should be headed to Digs Inside & Out on Alberta Street right now! Why? Well because today only (11am – 6pm) everything is 50%...
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The 2013 Northwest Flower and Garden Show, it’s all been written…
Wow, there has been a lot of blog coverage of the NWFGS already…it seems like everything worth sharing has already been shared, twice. But then I discovered this sweet display which I don’t think...
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Lacebug…coming to a Rhododendron near you?
During our recent Yard, Garden & Patio Show here in Portland I had the good sense to attend a lecture by (beloved) local garden personality Mike Darcy. Before he began the presentation (the topic...
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Clianthus puniceus, my favorite plant in the garden this week...
A week, or maybe two, ago Kaveh Maguire of Plant Propaganda mentioned his Clianthus puniceus was about to bloom. Remembering that we each planted our plants at nearly the same time I felt a bit of...
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So about those display gardens at the NW Flower and Garden Show…
I don’t know anyone who would name the display gardens as their main reason for going to a garden show (I stand corrected, Alison says they are one of her main reasons for going), but once there we all...
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The plants, it was all about the plants, hooray for The Lost Gardener!
By now I’m sure many of you have heard the big prize winner at the 2013 Northwest Flower and Garden Show was “The Lost Gardener – A Journey from the Wild to the Cultivated” by RHR Horticulture&...
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More garden, less lawn…it’s a Lawn Gone book party!
We never really discussed the matter, but both my husband and I knew one of the first projects we’d tackle after buying our home in 2005 was the removal of the front lawn. What a waste of space…Our...
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Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Harmony,’…yep! It’s my favorite plant in the...
Back in January I posted a couple of pictures of Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Harmony,’ the oldest Manzanita in my garden. I was lamenting the fact it was nothing but a blob and I couldn't even see the...
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Thinking thoughts of summer as I tend to the prisoners
It’s been four and a half months since the big move inside and undercover took place. At least once during the winter I like to take a very thorough look at all the plants, getting up close to see how...
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A few hotel horticultural encounters…
During our recent venture north to Seattle (for the garden show) we stayed at a new-to-us hotel, one that was part of the show sponsored hotel pricing specials (a great deal that I recommend checking...
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I almost forgot…I bought some plants!
What’s a trip to a garden show if you don’t buy a couple of plants right? I realized I got all “talkative” about the display gardens at the NWFGS and haven’t said anything about the plant...
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There were 119 eligible comments (comments from England, Scotland and Canada as well as a couple from me were taken out) on my Lawn Gone! book party post. I used random.org to generate a random number...
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Plant Nerds Unite!
I finally experienced Plant Nerd Night. What is Nerd Night you ask? Well it’s hard to explain. People wait in line like they do for the day after Thanksgiving sales. These pictures were taken when I...
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Walking on the wrong side of the tracks…
Most of you are probably familiar with the “Winter Walk-Off” challenge posed by Les at A Tidewater Gardener, the idea being that we get out and go for a walk, photographing things that catch our eye...
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Waste not want not…
Oh how I hated the idea of cutting off all those fragrant Clematis armandii blooms before they had a chance to open. But ya’ll convinced me they needed to go (cut back the vine!) so before I dug out...
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Dasylirion wheeleri; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
One sunny morning last week I opened the front door and was shocked by the sight of shining teeth on this Dasylirion wheeleri. They were glowing, lit by the sun. Unfortunately the camera wasn't able to...
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Bloomday for March 2013...
It’s spring! Oh I know not really, not quite yet, but its close enough for me, and my garden (and I couldn’t be happier). Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Akebono’ Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Nanjing Gold' Such a...
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