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Hortus TV, this is fantastic!
Each Garden Bloggers Fling has an amazing array of door prizes and swag — of course the DC Fling was no different. There were so many great things to be given away, that we were each given a handful of...
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Wednesday Vignette — next year: more Cannas!
I've always had Cannas in my garden, always. My love for them has waxed and waned, but they've always been here. That is until this year. If you're just tuning in our winter was nasty. Cold, ice snow,...
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My mini "fried-egg plant"
Plants are strange, there's really no predicting what they might decide to do. Last summer I grew a bunch of yellow Portulaca, a 6-pack of cheap plants from the grocery store...Late last fall I put the...
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The garden of Ellen Ash, a stop on the 2017 Garden Bloggers Fling
I could look back at the Fling itinerary and tell you what day we visited this garden...but does it really matter? No. It's all a blur now, just warm, fuzzy happy memories.Recently Andrew and I were...
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Do you know this Portland garden?
This is getting ridiculous. I've asked everyone I can think of if they know where this garden is, or who it belongs to, and I've got nothing! Portland's gardening community is pretty tight, how can...
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A closer look
Here it is mid-September and I'm finally posting extended photos of the garden I "teased" about on June 2nd. Good lord, what happened to summer? I'm not going to say it's gone by too fast — although...
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Wednesday Vignette; Agave flames
There's talk of the first soaking rains of the season hitting us this coming Sunday and Monday, as well as weather folks declaring this Monday was our "last 90 degree of the year!" With these...
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Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style (a book review)
I'm a little late to the party when it comes to heaping praise upon Joseph Tychonievich's "new" book Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style. After all it was named an American Horticultural...
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Garden Blogger's Bloomday for September 2017...
It's Bloomday for September 2017! Earlier in the week I shared my sadness over the fact that summer is coming to an end. It's never, ever, long enough for me. My garden is my paradise and I want to...
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In a Vase on Monday: an edible bouquet for the kitchen
I was hit with the desire to do something a little different this week...After-all the Sungold tomatoes are so beautiful...And there are so many of them!The basil keeps trying to bloom, almost faster...
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Bean Acres is the place to be...
I'm afraid my friend Evan Bean (The Practical Plant Geek) is gonna kill me over that title, however once I thought of it I couldn't not use it — and I smile every time I read it!! Of course the...
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Wednesday Vignettes, summer redemption
A trio of Agave vignettes to illustrate just how redemptive a hot summer can be.When I visited Blooming Junction Nursery last April I quickly filed report on the Agave destruction (here). While it was...
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I fear I'm gonna regret this...
There's a thin green line between lush, and overgrown. I try to stay right on that line, employing a few judicious cuts whenever overgrown seems to be taking hold. Sometime earlier this month (or maybe...
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GBFling 2017 — The Smithsonian Gardens: the end
I didn't take enough photos of the landscape at the National Museum of the American Indian or the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to warrant their own posts, so they'll be sharing my final...
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Wherein I take a deeper plunge into carnivorous plant collecting and finally...
The trellis which used to hold my Clematis tibetana var. vernayi (before it decided to make its own way) became home for several Tillandsia and Bromeliads this summer. Then in a moment of autumn...
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Visiting Campiello Maurizio
One of the earliest local garden bloggers that I followed was Ann, aka the Amateur Bot-ANN-ist. Even though she was local, a fellow Portlander, I didn't cross paths with her until the first Garden...
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Wednesday Vignette, you can't stop the Cactus
A scene from one of the "employees only" greenhouses at Cistus Nursery...Weather Diary, Sept 26: Hi 80, Low 55/ Precip 0 Wednesday Vignettes are hosted by Anna at Flutter & Hum. All material ©...
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Visiting a Franciscan Monastery, a stop on the 2017 Garden Bloggers Fling
Our final stop on the first day of the 2017 Garden Bloggers Fling was at The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America.From our Fling materials..."The Franciscan Monastery is described as an...
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End of Month Favorites, my how you've gown...
For this September's End of Month Favorites I thought it would be fun to check out how the trio of succulent dish planters have filled in over the summer, since their days in the sun are sadly...
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In a Vase on Monday: On the Road in Oregon
Andrew, Lila, and I spent most of last week traveling through Central and Eastern Oregon. Knowing our days would largely consist of car-time, with small bursts allotted to exploring, I thought it would...
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