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Making the tough choices...Version 2.0
Last March I shared a tough choice I was about to make, to do away with a Magnolia laevifolia that was healthy, but just planted in the wrong place. It was a hard one carry out, but I did it and...
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Wednesday Vignette: BEAUTIFULLY LANDSCAPED GROUNDS
A couple of months back my friend Heather shared an old real estate listing for her home that appeared in our local paper. She gave me the low-down on how to look up our address and I found these, from...
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Back to Little Prince, 2018
Last Sunday Mark Leichty, Director of Business Development at Little Prince of Oregon Nursery, invited the Portland-area garden bloggers out to their wholesale nursery for lunch and shopping, again....
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Garden visit follow-up (x2)...
When last we visited these two gardens I was on the sidewalk (here). This time around I've been invited into the private spaces of both, and I'm taking you along!We start out in the back garden at my...
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Old-West / Crafty garden-style, in Paris
Our very fist day in Paris, wandering around Notre Dame, I noticed what felt to me like a style disconnect.Everything we saw in Paris felt old, and substantial and elegant. These woven planting bed...
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Project: get rid of the big green blob...
A trip to Cistus Nursery is always inspiring. I saved this shot — from a visit last January — as an inspiring reminder to drastically prune my Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Harmony.' After all, while the...
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Wednesday Vignette: planting Lila (and Sammy), a then and now
The other day I was looking for an old photo and ran across this one, circa April 2009. Sammy (our big Yucca rostrata) was finally getting planted — but before that could happen Lila needed to try on...
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Parc André Citroën, partie un
Parc André Citroën was a recommendation from my friend Greg at Xera plants. He knows my style and he lived in France for awhile, I took his advice and I am so happy I did!A little backstory: In 1915,...
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Parc André Citroën, deuxième partie
Yesterday began our visit to Parc André Citroën, let's pick up where we left off...How do you feel about the shaped Magnolias? My big concern is do they bloom? What's the point if you're giving up the...
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Inside the Amazon Spheres
My friend Steve recently visited the Amazon Spheres — yes he stepped foot inside those fabulous buildings I was only able to photograph from the outside (here). But because he's a good friend he sent...
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I've driven by this garden a hundred times...
Seriously, I have driven by this house at least a hundred times. I never once noticed the garden until last week, when it made such an impression I had to circle back to get a closer look.It was the...
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Wednesday Vignette, learn from my mistakes edition
This my friends is what happens when you place a concrete block on the top of a container full of dormant Ligularia dentata 'Othello' and then forget about it. Until March 29th, when you remove the...
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Jardin des Combattants de la Nueve
Jardin des Combattants de la Nueve (Garden of the Fighters of Nueve) was another little pocket garden I discovered during our visit to Paris in January. Like London (which we visited in 2012), Paris...
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Cimetiere de Montmartre
One of the many benefits to traveling with a friend is they encourage you to go places and do things that you wouldn't necessarily do on your own. I would have never thought to seek out a Parisian...
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In a Vase on Monday...M.I.A.
I've been largely M.I.A. from the "In a Vase on Monday" Blogger's meme. Not because I haven't been putting things in a vase, heck I'll never stop doing that. I just haven't felt like photographing and...
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Les Mousses, Sentinelles de la Pollution
The same day Andrew and I visited the Eiffel Tower, we also toured the anthropology museum; Musée de l'Homme. After walking through the entire museum — and just before closing time — we discovered a...
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Wednesday Vignette, sepia roof
I suppose it's a green roof, but in this photo it looks more like a sepia roof. From the garden of John Kuzma, picture taken September 2017.Weather Diary, April 10: Hi 63, Low 50/ Precip .14"Wednesday...
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Marche aux fleurs — Reine Elizabeth II
The Queen Elizabeth II Flower Market was on my list of "must see" destinations during our trip to Paris. I knew it was close to Notre Dame, and thus our hotel, but I had no idea we'd walk right by it...
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Friday randomness: updates, discoveries and a reminder
Remember the sad Ligularia dentata 'Othello' I shared back on April 4th? (here) It had accidentally been deprived of sunlight, with a cinder-block placed over the top of it's container. It's made quite...
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Bloomday, a day late but with a vase
A chance to combine my Bloomday post and In a Vase on Monday seemed too good to pass up. Although in all honesty this post is primarily a result of my being too busy to post my Bloomday photos...
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