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My Foliage Follow-up trip to Lowes
I wasn't going to post for Foliage Follow-up this month, just too busy! Then our door lock failed and I made an emergency trip to Lowes. I’d seen these plants last weekend when we were there for...
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A follow-up "post-winter" visit to the garden of Sean Hogan...
When I posted pictures of Sean’s garden last October there were a few people wondering how his garden would handle the winter months. I had promised to return and take photos, and when visiting Cistus...
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U.G.L.Y.
Bamboo lovers I apologize. I apologize for what I’m about to say, and I apologize that I've let it get this bad. The Sasa palmata has to go.It’s UGLY…It wasn’t always this way. Back in 2011 it looked...
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Eriobotrya japonica; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
I feel a special sort of attachment to this loquat (Eriobotrya japonica). I watched it at a nursery for over a year before I finally bought it. During that year I purchased another loquat (less...
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A few things around town that have caught my eye…
Originally I planned to call this post “an opuntia named Harold” but decided that wasn’t fair to all the other plants I have pictures of. Harold and his friends occupy a rather overgrown hell-strip in...
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Everyone starts seeds on their stove right?
Seed starting appears to be one of my coping mechanisms for winter. I get the urge sometime in January or February, things start out well enough but then “real” gardening commences (yes I realize how...
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The hydrangea is gone! And the project continues…
When last we visited this corner of the garden I was having difficulty saying goodbye to the Clematis armandii 'Snowdrift' while preparing for the hydrangea to go away. Somehow I quickly got over the...
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What a stupid thing to do!
Remember that Blue Atlas Cedar I was so excited to have bought? Well I did a really stupid thing and let it dry out. I went to plant it on Sunday and when I picked it up the roots came right out of its...
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Sempervivum; my favorite plant(s) in the garden this week!
I’m kind of cheating at my own game, picking a whole group of plants rather than a particular plant…but they just look so good mashed together here. Usually when I plant sempervivum I spread them...
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Chelsea Physic Garden, London
Honestly I didn’t plan for it to happen this way…I looked at the topics I had to post about and decided it was high time I go through the photos I took at the Chelsea Physic Garden. As I started to...
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a very unfortunate order of events...
Last Sunday was one of those days when I head out to the garden with a specific task to accomplish, but soon found myself caught up in 100 small projects. In the end I accomplished what I had set out...
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Garden World, finally
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve driven past Garden World on I-5 about 30 miles south of Portland. It’s one of those unfortunate locations that you can see from the Interstate but there is...
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On second thought…
As it turned out my concern was unfounded, Andrew willingly agreed to the laborious chore of digging out the Sasa bamboo. All he asked was that I cut back the culms first, so he had easy access to the...
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Euphorbia stygiana; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
Why is Euphorbia stygiana my favorite this week? Well, besides the fact it’s just a darn good looking plant, I stopped the other day and really looked at it, realizing just how substantial it’s become....
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I want!
How fabulous would it be to have a drinking fountain in your garden? Pretty fabulous I think. I’ve spotted this one outdoors at Portland Nursery before…I love its industrial simplicity and the fact...
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Sammy gets a haircut and other goings on in the garden…
This spring has been a joy, after several cold and wet springs in a row here in Portland we’ve finally been blessed with wonderful gardening weather to kick off the season. I’ve been moving so many...
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Never say never; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
Have you ever found yourself stunned when your Google search results remind you of something you’ve completely forgotten? Something you wrote? It happened to me when I was writing this post. I Googled...
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Roadtrip to the "City of Destiny"...
Last weekend Andrew and I went in a little road trip up to Tacoma. For those of you unfamiliar Tacoma is Washington State’s third largest city and just a little over 2 hrs north of Portland (about 34...
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Caught in a moment of weakness…
Andrew has always hated the pair of inherited Pieris japonica growing at the front of our house. While I didn’t particularly love them I valued their size. In my book having a few established plants of...
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So about finding that second Pineapple Guava…
Yesterday I mentioned it was the chance discovery of a nice little specimen Acca Sellowiana at The Gardener’s Choice that pushed me to go for it and do away with our established Pieris japonica. It...
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