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The Portland Garden of Ketzel Levine
If you're a fellow Garden Blogger think back to when you hit *publish* on that first blog post. Did anyone read it? Anyone besides your mom and your best friend that is? When did you get your first...
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The pot knows where to point...
I finally found the Euphorbia tirucalli (sticks on fire) I needed to plant up my Point Pot, from Potted.Since the pot was now going to hang outside I needed to fix it up right, with wire, not the twine...
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July Bloomday!
Here in Portland we've hit the sweet spot. Blue skies day after day, warm (sometimes hot) temperatures, THIS is what erases the memory of all that winter rain, or this year all that winter snow, ice,...
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In a Vase on Monday — Lilies from my garden!
What was I thinking? I've gardened here since 2005 and only just planted lilies this spring. WHY!? I couldn't tell you. I guess I thought they were difficult and demanding? Last spring a friend posted...
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Danger!
Those who follow me on Instagram may recognize this image...I snapped the photo in our hotel room during the Capitol Region GB Fling. The kind Laurin Lindsey of Ravenscourt Gardens had spotted these...
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Wednesday Vignette, Western Tiger Swallowtail
The garden is alive with flying and buzzing creatures. This one was nice enough to sit still for a moment. Just a moment...Weather Diary, July 18: Hi 84, Low 57/ Precip 0Wednesday Vignettes are hosted...
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Potted, the book (a review and a give-away)
Most of my readers probably realize I'm a huge fan of Potted, in Los Angeles. I've visited the store several times, and wish they were closer — they're just so GOOD. I've known there was a Potted book...
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The garden of Jeff Minnich, a stop on the 2017 Capitol Region GB Fling
Back to the Capitol Region and the recent Garden Bloggers Fling...this garden, at the home of designer Jeff Minnich, was our 4th stop on Saturday. Jeff gardens in Arlington, Virginia, don't let that...
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In a Vase on Monday, prunings
Tidying up the garden for a tour group coming through later this week, I was left with trimmings too good to just throw in the yard waste bin. For example these Eryngium agavifolium blooms were...
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The garden of Barbara and Howard Katz, a stop on the 2017 Capitol Region GB...
If I have one regret from the recent Garden Bloggers Fling it's that I didn't actually meet Barbara Katz. Oh sure she was there when we visited her garden (on the second day of the Fling), in fact...
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Wednesday Vignette: then and now...Paulownia tomentosa
Pollarding day, March 12 (the cut branches to the left are Sambucus Black Lace)And today...Ya gotta love a tree that just gets on with it!Weather Diary, July 25: Hi 90, Low 60/ Precip zilch - day 38...
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"One more project"...and the winner of the Potted book give-away
This project has been tumbling around in my head for awhile now. What I ultimately had pictured is a much (MUCH) smaller version of this, seen at Dig Nursery...In my imagination I shrunk those concrete...
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Favorites for the end of July: we're heading to the north side...
I don't remember where I was, or whom I was talking to, but I was recently singing the praises of Adiantum venustum, aka Himalayan maidenhair fern. They thought it too delicate too precious...I tried...
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A walk around the Kennedy School gardens
My birthday was a week and a half ago, Andrew took the day off and one of the things we did for our low-key celebration was to walk over to Kennedy School for lunch......a nice, long, relaxing lunch in...
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$23...
So there's this vintage shop on N. Killingsworth Street that I drive by all the time. Finally, after 2+ years, the stars aligned and I stopped to check them out. Guess what? I was there within their...
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Wednesday Vignette, a summer-long color boost!
I've previously written about the bright pink Bougainvillea the dear Outlaw gifted to me last May (here). It just keeps getting better and better. Especially when backed by an Agave ovatifolia and...
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Following an Instagram tip...
A couple of weeks back a fellow Portlander tagged me on Instagram to tell me about a plant sale she'd found and thought I would want to know about. It was only for the weekend, and I'd already missed...
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The garden of Debbie Friedman, a stop on the Garden Bloggers Fling
On every Garden Bloggers Fling there's always talk about what the "it" plant of the region is. I can't remember what the final consensus was for the Capitol Region Fling, but I believe Monarda and...
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In a Vase on Monday (finally) the Zinnias...
My Zinnia seeds were planted late this year, due to our cool wet spring. It's taken them until now to start to open, and be worthy of cutting.In addition to Zinnia elegans 'Envy' I also planted 'Queen...
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Cracked Pots at McMenamins Edgefield, 2017
Last Tuesday (August 1), as the temperature crept up toward the century mark, it was time for the annual Cracked Pots Art Show at McMenamins Edgefield. While I am no fan of "Art" in the garden I do...
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