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Lucinda Hutson (¡VIVA TEQUILA!), a stop on the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling
Lucinda Hutson's garden was our first stop on Sunday, May 6th, the last day of the Austin GB Fling. The time stamp on my camera says this photo was taken at 6:41 am, of course that's Pacific Time,...
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Wednesday Vignette; a map
Going through and organizing some files the other day I found this odd little map of the garden that I drew for Jennifer Jewell before appearing on her podcast Cultivating Place. She'd asked for a...
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Ten Eyck Landscape Architects at University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
It's been so long since I've written about our June trip to the desert Southwest, and I'm longing to return to the sun. That trip ended in El Paso, TX, where we drove to catch our flight home. I'd...
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My new green wall (where I realize my garden is so much bigger than my house)
I've spent the last 4 or 5 months gleefully adding vertical elements to the garden, like the Tillandsia that festooned Clifford, our big-leaf Magnolia.And the virtual Bromelaid and Tillandsia party I...
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October Bloomday
October, a month that can be both miserable and gorgeous here in Portland. Miserable when there's nonstop grey cloudy skies and rain, gorgeous when we get those crisp sunny days when the colors of...
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A quick walk around Lan Su, Portland's Chinese Garden
I recently renewed my membership at Lan Su, Portland's Chinese Garden. When doing so I realized it's been two years since I visited! My last trip there was for the floral design showcase and their...
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Wednesday Vignette: what do my garden and Central Park have in common?
Walking though the back garden I sometimes get a sense of déjà vu, a feeling that my ridiculously dense, tall, plantings abutting the small lawn, reminds me of something...I finally figured out what it...
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species — a...
The Plant Messiahwent on my Amazon Wish List back on August 1st. I have so many books in my "to read" pile, I didn't want to purchase another and add it to the pile, but I didn't want to loose track of...
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Cornell Farm, on a perfect October day...
With our stretch of dreamy October weather — blue skies and temperatures in the 70's — I decided a quick nursery field-trip was in order and I headed over to Cornell Farm.I carried one of these...
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An Agave Report, October 2018 — Part I
It's that time again, time when I start looking at my garden and wondering what winter holds. The official word is things should be pretty darn mild (for example here's what Paul Bonine of Xera Plants...
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An Agave Report, October 2018 — Part II
Yesterday we looked at the in-ground Agaves in the front garden and a few plants in the driveway planters, today we check out the plants in the back garden...The blue pup is Agave weberi, a little...
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Wednesday Vignette, Pac-Man
My photo editing software downloaded this Clematis tibetana var. vernayi image sideways. All I can see are multiple hungry Pac-Mans working their way through the garden...Weather Diary, Oct 23: Hi 59,...
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Visiting The Potted Elephant
Back on October 13th I headed south, on a sunny Saturday, to attend the Potted Elephant's open greenhouse...The Potted Elephant is a wholesale operation, not normally open to the public. I don't know...
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Container change-up, for the season
While these three dish planters make me very happy, our winter temperatures will make these plants very unhappy...Thus I recently pulled them inside and used another trio of "dishes" to plant up...
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In a Vase on Monday; autumn bounty with a Halloween kick
Our shockingly beautiful October came to a crashing end last Friday with the return of the rain. I want to complain, but I know I should not. It is SO VERY DRY out there! And we've had such a run of...
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Gardening under lights
The weekend before last I spent with my friends Erin and Matt up in Seattle. I've known these two since, oh 1994? Good lord, that's almost 25 years!? I must be figuring wrong (quick math and I realize...
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Wednesday Vignette; it's Halloween...
A vignette from the Lowry Eckerdt garden (part of the Salem Study Weekend tours of 2016)...Even though this photo was taken on a sunny June day it had a spooky quality to it, the skull of course, but...
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium...the plants! Part I
Back in September I got an email from a fellow by the name of Bryon Jones, horticulturist / arborist at PDZA (Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, in Tacoma, WA). He included a few photos of some...
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium...the plants! Part II
Yesterday (here) we toured some of the more established plantings at the PDZA, today we start off with a look at the Baja Bed in front of the Pacific Seas Aquarium, this area was just planted up last...
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The Ninth Moon Floral Showcase at Lan Su Garden
The first weekend in November is the Ninth Moon Floral Showcase at Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden. I missed last year, so was thrilled to be able to visit last Friday morning, an unexpectedly sunny...
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