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Garden Bloggers Bloomday, June 2017
Despite the notes I'd left reminding myself to take Bloomday photos I nearly forgot. What a rushed blog post...but I made it!This photo sums up how rushed I was. I managed to take a pic of Acanthus...
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Armstrong Garden Center, in Claremont, California
Last January after visiting Pitzer College (here and here) and before hitting the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden I stopped in Armstrong Garden Center (32 locations!)...I wasn't shopping for anything...
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Have (crevice) garden will travel...
After seeing these photos on Kenton J. Seth's blog I Need A Cup Of Tea I asked if I could share them and Kenton graciously agreed.Of course I asked for the backstory, I mean how does one come to have a...
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Exciting changes in the shady corner...
At the same time I built and planted my fern table (written about here), I planted this small oval stock tank with ferns. It previously held Equisetum hyemale, aka horsetail. I loved it for many years,...
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Wednesday Vignette, inspiration
Surely I'm not the only one who looks at these "round reducers" (so says the shelf tag at the orange big box) and sees shiny metal planters in the traditional shape?Yes the bottom is open...but if...
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Just another windy day...
There are windy days.And then there are windy days. This particularly ugly mess happened on a day with no high wind warnings. At random times, when the wind is just right, the male cones from the...
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The personal garden of Dan Heims, aka Mr. Terra Nova
I've been so busy working in my own garden that I've only made it to one HPSO open garden this year: the personal garden of Dan Heims, President of Terra Nova Nurseries.The height of this Schefflera...
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Potting up an Agave — a rant and a recommendation
I went a little crazy earlier this spring and bought three qty 2-gallon Agave utahensis v. eborispina. After thinking long on what I wanted to do with them it was finally time to put one in a...
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The Eckerdt Garden, a highly anticipated stop on the Salem Study Weekend Tour...
Last weekend marked a year since I toured the gardens of the Salem Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend. After this post I still have over a half dozen gardens to write about. And people wonder why I...
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Wednesday Vignette, circles
Today's vignette features photos taken across the street from the garden we visited in yesterday's post.I was mesmerized by the patterns within each circle and the patterns the circles made all stacked...
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A few Fling images, as recorded on my phone...(testing...)
As many of you know I just returned from the 2017 Garden Bloggers Fling in the Capitol Region, or as Andrew's D.C. located cousin refers to it "The DMV" (District of Columbia, Maryland, Vermont)....
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Ha! Will you look at that, it's the last Friday of the month...
It completely hit me out of the blue...today is the last Friday of June. How the hell did that happen? I'm supposed to post about monthly favorites today. Would have been nice if I'd actually thought...
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Creating Community...Westwind Farm Studio in Pacific Horticulture Magazine
Back in 2013 I started writing a (yet unfinished, I'm embarrassed to admit) essay on garden blogging titled "Creating Community".That's when the owner of the company my husband works for, Schoolhouse...
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Memorials, Museums & Monuments on the National Mall
I suspect I won't be the only garden blogger sharing photos from our Nations Capitol on this Independence Day, the timing of our recent Garden Bloggers Fling seems to almost require it...Andrew and I...
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Wednesday Vignette, brown speckles and white flowers
The subject of this week's WV is Arthropodium candidum 'Maculatum'...Brown speckles and white flowers, on a New Zealand native that prefers part shade and even moisture.I've grown this one before and...
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Building a fern table: watching the professional in action and a follow-up on...
Back when I wrote about building my fern table (May 26th), I mentioned a workshop with Richie Steffen that I planned to attend at Joy Creek Nursery. That workshop finally took place last weekend, it...
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Hillwood Estate; our first official stop on the 2017 Garden Bloggers Fling
Bright and early (VERY early for us West Coast residents) we Garden Blogging "Flingers" piled in the buses and headed out for our fist, of many, stops for the 2017 Capitol Region event. Destination...
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Mayflowers, in the RTC
Back to the Reston Town Center, where we stayed during the 2017 Garden Blogger's Fling. I had a couple of hours, before the Fling started, to stroll and shop and find lunch. Imagine how excited I was...
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Less is more...
Winter removed more than a few things from our garden. Probably the largest was the Acacia dealbata, and no, it's not coming back from the roots (yet?). I've also caused a few things to disappear. I...
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Wednesday Vignette: vertical planting by nature
This week's Vignette comes via Andrew (my husband) who snapped this photo while siting in traffic.Gordon's Fireplace Shop was a Portland mainstay for years. Last April we learned it was closing and its...
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