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Blooms and spikes, an April visit to Cistus Nursery
Last Thursday marked the 8th Annual Pre-Hortlandia Plant Nerd Field Trip for my friends and I. Our core group remains almost the same, although sadly over the years we've had one of the original...
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Wednesday Vignette...The Haul
A better blogger would have arranged all the plants in one epic photo for this Haul/Wednesday Vignette post. I am not that blogger. Thus I'm stretching the boundaries of the meme and sharing several...
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Flora Exotica at Flora Noble
When several of your creative friends are linked to an exhibition called Flora Exotica you have to go check it out, right?Flora Exotica took place last Sunday at Casa Rana (aka Flora Noble). Owners...
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The Marsh Garden, a stop on the 2016 Salem Study Weekend
Think European. In Salem, Oregon. We're flashing back to June of 2016...From our Study Weekend brochure: "Our Mediterranean-style home and 2-acre garden began as an abandoned hilltop pasture 17 years...
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In a Vase on Monday...more tulips
Simplicity is the theme with this week's vases. The second group of species tulips (from John Scheepers) to bloom is Tulipa 'Little Princess' (a T. hageri and T. aucheriana cross, this dainty, scented...
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Paris Wanderings, Day Seven
I took a little break from Paris posts but I'm back with a vengeance. My blog posts for the rest of this week will finally wrap up coverage of my January visit. Today we walk Avenue des...
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Wednesday Vignette, don't be afraid to use words
Signs with symbols instead of words are all well and good, when the symbols make sense. This one I saw in Paris was a head-scratcher. Don't climb a ladder to a cloud in a lightening-storm? Don't stand...
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Paris Wanderings, Day Eight (my last day in Paris!)
It was bittersweet then and it's bittersweet now. My last day in Paris! As we headed out to stroll the Promenade Plantée I realized I'd never snapped a photo of the Metro sign nearest our hotel. Such...
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Walking the Coulée verte René-Dumont / aka Promenade Plantée, Paris
The Coulée verte René-Dumont or Promenade plantée (French for tree-lined walkway) or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 2.9 mile elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway...
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Love hurts, our little girl is gone
After ten years together we've had to say goodbye to our little girl, my gardening side-kick, and the dog behind the danger garden...Lila came to live with us at the end of October, 2008. She was only...
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Wednesday Vignette, easing back into it
I want to thank everyone who commented (and emailed, and messaged, and chatted in person) with condolences on the loss of our Lila. Your words were so appreciated. To know that so many people...
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The Strauss Garden, a stop on the 2016 Salem Study Weekend
While the rest of the garden-blogosphere is all a-buzz with posts about the gardens we saw during the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling in Austin, I'm holding off on that and instead returning to Salem,...
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The O'Brien Vineyard, a stop on the 2016 Salem Study Weekend
Hmm, back in Salem. This garden was adjacent to the owner's vineyard, which is where we all parked, not so bad really. I remember being awe-struck by the spectacular views of Mt. Hood, and took several...
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The 2018 Austin GB Fling; Pam Penick's garden
I was one of the 90+ bloggers who recently descended upon Austin, Texas, for the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling. This Fling was special, it was the 10th anniversary of the event, and we were back in the...
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Garden Blogger's Bloomday — May 2018
The wonderful Carol Michael, mother of the Bloomday meme, blogger at May Dreams Gardens, attended the Austin Fling. Had I been a better blogger I would have captured a photo of her, with some gorgeous...
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Wednesday Vignette, I will attempt to replicate this
Austin, TX, isn't the only place I've visited recently — I spent a couple days toward the end of April in Davis, CA. The Pacific Horticulture Society board of directors met at the UC Davis campus and I...
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"The Desert Next Door"— my garden is in Sunset Magazine's June issue!
I like to think of it as a little Ruth Bancroft magic. Back in August of 2016 I attended the the media preview party for The Bold Dry Garden, the fantastic book from Timber Press on Ruth and the garden...
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Welcome to the jungle...
This is roughly my view as I open my eyes each morning and look out our bedroom window. The softly arching foliage belongs to Metapanax delavayi.Once I drag myself out of bed and walk over to look out...
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Who did it first?
Strolling down E. 4th St, on our first evening Austin, Andrew and I spotted these excellent dish planters. Before I could say anything he said "they stole your idea!" Ha, he's great that way, assuming...
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The garden of Jackson Broussard, a post GB Fling bonus
I was fortunate to tour a few additional Austin gardens, after the Fling proper wrapped up — one of those gardens was that of Jackson Broussard. Jackson (and his design company Sprout), was the...
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