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Twenty Six Feet
Add we have a new record...I stepped out to get the mail the other day and glanced down. Oh my.That's a baby Tetrapanax.Which traveled all the way across our front garden and under our sidewalk to come...
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Blooming Junction: Agave report...a follow-up, after a difficult winter
Some of you may find this post disturbing. I understand. I however am thrilled I got to see these plants before they were all yanked and replaced. It's interesting to see how they responded to the...
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Stormwater management — done decoratively — at the Portland Expo Center
Not wanting to eat the hot-dog and hamburger fare on offer at the Expo Center last weekend (what with shopping the HPSO plant sale in the morning and volunteering in the afternoon I was there all day)...
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I got to go to the Getty!
Family time, during our January trip to the Los Angeles area, meant visiting somewhere with multiple levels of interest (not just plants). Enter the Getty Center, art, architecture and gardens =...
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Wednesday Vignette, perfect pairing
I found this plant and pot in an out of the way corner at the Desert Botanical Garden...The poor Agave has seen better days, and getting it out of the container looks next to impossible. It wasn't just...
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Back to Salem and my visit to the Cornwell Garden
On the final day of the Salem Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend, last June, I toured this garden, in Woodburn, OR, just north of Salem...From the tour brochure..."Started in 1986, "Clementine" is a...
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Month-end Favs, for April: the surprise survivors
Here were are again, it's the last Friday of the month, and that means a chance to look at a few of my favorite plants in the garden. This month I'm not focusing on things because they're looking...
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In a Vase on Monday, where oh where has my inspiration gone?
I blame winter. Oh and our miserably cold and wet spring. Maybe you've noticed, I just can't get inspired to put together a Monday vase. Initially I thought it was because so much of my garden was in...
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Visiting the other Rolling Greens, and rediscovering plantlife
Even now, three and a half months later, these photos seem otherworldly to me...On January 16th I left this...And just a few short hours later was walking around and looking at this.Giddy does not even...
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Wednesday Vignette, I swoon
I give you Daphniphyllum macropodum...That photo was going to be my Wednesday Vignette, but then I realized I couldn't share just one. So...I love this plant!Weather Diary, May 2: Hi 61, Low 49/ Precip...
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Mangave Madness!
I shared this delicious photo on Facebook weeks ago and promised to do a follow up post with details. Where does time go? I did unpack, and pot them all up, right away. I just have been lax in writing...
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An early sketch, WWWT*
How does one end up hanging on to some things when others, obviously more important, get tossed? I'll never know. Going through some random papers last weekend Andrew ran across this sketch. It's of...
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In a Vase on Monday, some stems here and some stems there...
Just because a vase only contains one stem, or multiples of the same stem, it's no less enjoyable. Long before Cathy's "in a vase" meme inspired me to put together actual "arrangements" I was still...
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Post winter Agave check-in at "my" Mediterranean Villa
Just so you know, I take my duties seriously. I must report on how all the big Portland Agaves are doing, post nightmare winter.Heading home one day, I realized I was near "my" Mediterranean Villa and...
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Wednesday Vignette, don't mulch the plants!
This Wednesday's vignette features a large Agave ovatiolia just a few blocks from my house. I throw a glance at it whenever I drive by, but finally had a chance to look at it up-close and personal the...
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Checking in on two other well known NE Portland Agaves...
It's time for the next entry in Portland Agave week (yes, even better than the Discovery Channel's Shark Week). If you'd have asked me about these Agaves I'd have told you they've been there since I...
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Plants arriving by mail...
I have been the lucky recipient of several plant shipments which have arrived in Portland via the USPS. First up is a box-o-Agaves!Sometime during our repeated snow and ice events last winter my...
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Garden Bloggers Bloomday, for May 2017
So here we are, May...the namesake month for Carol's blog May Dreams Gardens, Carol being the genius/hostess behind Garden Bloggers Bloomday. I didn't think I had all that much blooming, that is until...
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The St. John's Pub, and a look at more Agaves
Since I was driving right by I figured I'd better stop and check out the Agaves, up-close. Five A. ovatifolia planted curbside back in 2012...While I was there to check up on winter damage, I think...
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Wednesday Vignette, growing a plant within a plant
My potted Bocconia frutescens is always sending up a crop of seedlings in the container. They never really amount to anything, although that doesn't stop me from hoping they will. This one somehow...
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