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Wednesday Vignette; do you think they like this time of year?
Cutting back around to park my car and snap the photos shared in Monday's blog post (here) I discovered this pumpkin pile...Assorted gourds and pumpkins all the way up to the front door!Pretty fun...
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Blooming Junction, Agave report...
Last fall I wrote about discovering an Agave planting at Blooming Junction out in Cornelius, OR. Almost an entire year had gone by and I hadn't been out that way to check on their progress, what was I...
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An icon in decline...
Here in Portland huge Agaves are enough of a rarity, that when they do exist, they become local icons. People refer to them by "name" the "Fremont Agave" (dearly departed after blooming), the "Alameda...
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October 2016 Garden Blogger's Bloomday
It's Garden Blogger's Bloomday for October 2016! I took these photos (well most of them) on the 12th, fully intending to post early. Why? Laziness, no desire to post on a Saturday if I didn't have to....
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In a Vase on Monday — cheater cheater pumpkin eater
My husband and I have both been traveling. I went to Phoenix, AZ, to visit my brother and his family. Andrew made a spur of the moment (relatively speaking) business trip to China. I beat him back home...
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Pictures from China...
As I mentioned yesterday my husband, Andrew, recently traveled to China. Many people asked "why didn't you go with him?" Well, mainly because I'd already planned a trip to Phoenix to visit my brother...
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Wednesday Vignette — sky turtle!
I do love when the simple answer is also a decorative one. Instead of just lashing these rebar poles together a turtle trivet and coil of wire do the job and add a touch of fun.The rebar, stuffed into...
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Oranges! The Poncirus trifoliata delivers...
For months now I've been watching the fruit on my Poncirus trifoliata and wondering when it would ever turn from green to yellow/and/or/orange. It finally did, at the same time the leaves changed...
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Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens
Let's go back to Santa Barbara shall we? It was July, and we'd walked up to Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden. Andrew found it on the map and it looked promising. Across the street was this gorgeous...
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On my Front Door and in a Vase, on a Monday...
With a stormy weekend on the way I gathered a favorite twig wreath...Foraged leaves and berries while out on the last dry dog walk...Pulled together some crafty papers and tools...And set to work...
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Arizona Styrofoam Guy (WWHT?)
What Were They Thing (WWTT) has temporarily morphed into What Was He Thinking (WWHT). Because I know this is a he, my brother's neighbor in Phoenix, AZ, and seriously...what was he thinking?Some people...
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Wednesday Vignette, Agave WiFi Zone
So let me get this straight...if you can find a blooming Agave then you're guaranteed a WiFi connection? Is that what this sign is telling us? Their flowers somehow pulse out an internet...
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Wrapping up that trip to Santa Barbara...
It's about time I put a wrap on the July trip to Santa Barbara, don't you think? Just a few random photos to share and I'll be done...This photo could have been so much better. Andrew was (he said...
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October Favorites...
Before I decided to include them in my "October favorites" post, these first few photos were destined for a post called "you can't kill those things"... I'll explain...Those tall trunks belong to my...
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In a Vase on Monday...off with their heads! (oh the horror)...
As a result of last summer's Aeonium challenge I find myself with multiple plants that need to be overwintered. These are from two different containers...They're such fabulous plants, but I never seem...
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Autumn 2016 Agave Report
I haven't done an official "Agave Report" for two years. How is that possible? I filed the last one on November 17th, 2014. There was a sort of interim account done last year on November 19th, a count...
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Wednesday Vignette, Autumn and the Agaves
If you slogged through yesterday's lengthy Agave report you saw an earlier version of this vignette, here's what it's looking like now. I wish I could say I planned this one but it's just a happy...
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Mossy gifts
Our neighborhood has lost another gardener. She was an unabashed flower lover and made our street oh so much more colorful because of the garden she tended (I wrote about it a few times, this post has...
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Visiting Wild Ginger Farm
Last August, during the Farwest Show weekend, some friends and I hit a couple of "new to me" nurseries. How fabulous is it that after 11 years in Portland there are still nurseries in the area that I...
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In a Vase on Monday...3's company / 3 x 3 is a crowd...
If you follow Rambling in the Garden, the blog of our In a Vase on Monday leader, Cathy, then you know this is the 3rd Anniversary of this fun Garden Blogger's meme. As such she proposed a theme for...
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