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Wednesday Vignette, it pays to crawl under the tree
Doing a little "garden renovation" last week (out with an overgrown Leptospermum lanigerum I just wasn't loving any more) I crawled under the Eriobotrya japonica to pick up dead leaves and pull some...
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The Margie McClurg garden, a stop on the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
This is the first photo I took during our stop at Margie McClurg's garden. If my memory is correct there was a bit of a back-up of bloggers filing in through the main gate, so I detoured around the...
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I went all the way to Austin to find the perfect plant...
Last August I purchased this metal planter from Indio Metal Arts at the Cracked Pots show at McMenamins Edgefield...But it just sat around, unplanted, after I took that photo, above. Almost 10 months...
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Visiting Gerhard's garden, 2018 style
I've visited, and written about, my friend Gerhard's garden in 2014 (here) and then again in 2016 (here). It would appear I'm on the "every two year" plan, as I was there again last month, April...
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East Austin Succulents and Tillery Street Plant Co — a combo nursery visit
You know I love to visit nurseries; at home, when I'm traveling, it's all good! I was thrilled to stop at East Austin Succulents while Pam had us out and about the Monday after the Fling. E.A.S. was a...
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Wednesday Vignette, that fleeting moment when...
Lord knows this vignette gets plenty of screen time. The area in front of our living room window might be one of the most photographed parts of the garden, but I don't think I've ever featured...
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The Fabaceae garden at Chelsea
Oh Chelsea, you're a flower show that a whole country stops to notice, can us Americans imagine what that means? I don't think so. Prime time television coverage, of a garden show? Ha! Not in this...
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Oh how they grow...
For me one of the best parts of gardening is watching the plants grow and mature over time. But planting little tiny newbies is hard, when you want the garden you see in your mind's eye, NOW.Earlier...
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Articulture, the amazing end of the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
The closing party of the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling was one to remember. I'd been holding back these photos — on account of the fact I still have so many Fling gardens to share — but that's SILLY! Talk...
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Where there once was a Grevillea...
This was the scene on the north end of the patio the last time I shared it (on April 13th). The Grevillea australis had just been removed. You can see disturbed, bare, soil to the right of the Nolina...
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Wednesday Vignette, Cove/Agave ovatifolia
Our last day in Austin Andrew and I walked South Congress Ave. Me, being me, I took a lot of plant photos. You'll see them all eventually, but today I really wanted to share this bit of Agave...
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Salem Study Weekend, the Strubel and Crowe gardens
It's my second to last post from the 201 Salem Study Weekend tour...this one is a double shot, two gardens! The first one is the Strubel garden..."Our garden is a fairly young garden. Each year another...
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Salem Study Weekend, Lowry Eckerdt garden
This garden was my last stop on the Salem Study Weekend. Three fun-filled days of garden touring had drawn to a close (and my extended coverage finally has too).The owners decription of their...
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Touring the UC Davis Conservatory
As I mentioned when sharing photos from Gerhard's garden, I was recently in Davis, CA, for a PacHort board meeting.That meeting took place in the conservatory office, and lucky me, included a tour of...
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The Kuzma Garden, a late May visit
My visits to the Kuzma Garden usually take place in high summer, or mid-autumn, but not so this year. I got an email in late May from John, inviting me to stop by and pick up a couple of plants he was...
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Wednesday Vignette, tribute to the many faces of my Magnolia macrophylla flowers
This has been a VERY florific year for the Magnolia macrophylla, nearly every branch had a bud at the end, I've been enjoying the show for almost a month. For my WV this week I thought I'd share...
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"I'll take it!" I said, not really having any idea what I'd just agreed to...
I bought a Scadoxus puniceus at Rare Plant Research years ago. It died. I always regretted my failure, this happy orange flower should be in my garden!Heather (Just a girl with a hammer) had a better...
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Bloomday — June 2018
June 15th, summer (!) and the garden is strutting its stuff (oh I know, summer doesn't technically begin until the solstice next week, but come on, it's summer!). Abutilon Nuabyell is rather...
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My parents take on the dish planters — they're bowl planters!
I recently made the trip up to visit a friend and my family in Spokane. Even though I knew my parents were working on creating their own "dish planters" I was still surprised to walk into the back...
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Visiting Jennifer's garden...during the Austin Fling
I've been reading Jennifer's blog, Rockrose, since meeting her at the Seattle Fling in 2011. In addition to photos of her own gorgeous garden, Jenny frequently writes about her, and her husband...
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