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Spring 2013 Hortlandia…you’re going right?
Each year I try to do a blog post encouraging everyone within driving distance to attend the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon spring plant sale, this time I’m going to use someone else’s words to tell you...
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April 2013, Bloomday!
I take photos of my flowers for Bloomday, go through them, and frequently find I’m unable to choose just one image that fully conveys what I want you to see about that particular plant/flower. This is...
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Fine Foliage, for Foliage Follow-up…
Over the last few weeks I’ve taken quite a few photos of this Grevillea victoriae 'Murray Queen' intending to post about it for a “favorite plant of the week” feature, however something a little louder...
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Hortlandia 2013 wrap-up…
Reports are I scooted into the sale right before traffic outside became a nightmare…thank god. There was maximum people crunch right inside the door though. Sometimes I enjoy the crowds, watching what...
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Stachyurus salicifolius; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
This week’s fav plant suffers from my inability to focus. I wanted to showcase the new foliage, but then realized the rest of the world probably wanted to see the blooms. Thus I didn’t get a really...
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A field trip with my plant crazed friends…
As is tradition (3 years running) the Thursday before the HPSO spring plant sale I met up with some friends for a day of nursery hopping. The first year it was just Ryan, Scott, Derick and I. Last year...
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A few things that have caught my eye on the interwebs:
Lotusland, the Blue Garden. Photo Gerhard Bock, used with permission.It’s rare that I post on Saturday, even rarer that I post just a list of links, but sometimes a girl’s gotta share. And besides...
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Nice haul…
Yes indeed, it’s another plant haul. However there is something very different about this one…all these plants were free! We Oregon garden bloggers got together over the weekend for a plant exchange...
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How long does it take to forget?
Last week as I was planting this gorgeous 5-gallon phormium (picked up at the orange big box for only $24.99), it hit me how far backwards I’ve slid, and I paused for a moment to reflect.When we moved...
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Making the sidewalk safe again for NE Portland pedestrians…
Many a time I’ve bemoaned the fact our street trees, a pair of Styrax japonica, weren’t great choices. All it takes is this photo from June of 2011 to tell you why…Branches heavy with wet blossoms...
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It’s gonna bloom!
There's nothing quite like the rush you feel when you're going about your day and suddenly notice a plant that’s getting ready to bloom. For me that feeling is as nice as seeing the bloom itself, I...
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Agave parryi 'JC Raulston'...my favorite plant in the garden this week.
It’s about time I featured an agave don’t you think? Well ‘JC Raulston’ has definitely earned the privilege. This particular plant…Has been in my garden for two years now, that’s two wet winters...
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So what did she do about that embarrassing Dusty Miller infatuation?
I know a few of you have probably been losing sleep, wondering if I’ve come to my senses and ditched the Dusty Miller (I confessed awhile ago to having bought three plants, after mentioning I was...
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Sophora prostrata 'Little Baby’ is my favorite plant in the garden this week…
It takes a pretty cool plant to overcome a silly name like Sophora prostrata 'Little Baby’ but I think this one manages.My plant crushes seem to fall into a few distinct groups. There are the...
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And so it begins…
The evening Kym Pokorny visited my garden I noticed her looking intently at the ground around my Tetrapanax, before coming to the door. Odd, I thought. The first thing she said to me (I’m paraphrasing,...
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Squid, Sardine and Coconut Jam
My husband Andrew recently moved into a new office with a nice big window, being a smart man he figured this was the perfect spot for a few plants. I would have been happy to fix him up with a fine...
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Conifers...
Out on a dog walk, but nearing home, Lila was doing that thing dogs do, sniffing sniffing sniffing, and my eyes wandered...And for the first time I really saw the odd combination of conifers in my next...
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A gas-station nursery in Spokane, WA…
The last weekend in April I made a trip up to Spokane, in addition to visiting one of the oldest (and used-to-be biggest) antique sales in the region, my mom and I also hit a few nurseries. This one,...
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You smell like dirt!
An insult hurled at a gardener? Nope. A complement actually, if you’re wearing Dirt by Demeter…My friend JJ recently started carrying these fragrances at her shop, Digs. I went in pretty certain I’d...
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Leptospermum 'Dark Shadows' is my favorite plant in the garden (this week)…
For everyone who’s been frustrated by my featuring plants that aren’t hardy in your zone here’s one I love that isn’t even hardy in my own zone…Leptospermum 'Dark Shadows’…I fell hard for that foliage...
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