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Callisia fragrans, my latest plant crush
What's a gardener's life without a new plant crush now and then? This crush, on Callisia fragrans — a plant I'd never heard of until the 2018 Garden Bloggers Fling in Austin, TX — has been simmering...
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Wednesday Vignette, IKEA Rimforsa hack
Did you know there's an entire website dedicated to alternative uses for IKEA products? Well actually there's probably more than just one but IKEA Hackers is the one I'm familiar with. Of course just...
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Pat Calvert Greenhouse, at the UW Arboretum Foundation
I paid my second-ever visit to the Pat Calvert Greenhouse on October 19th, when I was up Seattle-way (photos from my first visit, in 2015, here). Why? Well, first of all I was hoping to score another...
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Visiting the garden of Justin Galicic
I've known Justin Galicic for a several years now, and read his blog Growing Steady, even before we met in person. For the last seven years Justin has been holding a huge party "The Normandy Park...
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Mumvember, at Lan Su
Originally I planned to intersperse images of the lovely mums on display at Lan Su with the floral design competition entries (shared here). But that would have made for a really long post, and one...
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A long weekend in Newport, Oregon
It's been close to two years since Andrew and I visited the beach, pretty sad considering we're only a couple of hours away. We finally made it out last weekend, arriving at Nye Beach on Thursday...
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Wednesday Vignette: What are you doing here? This is my greenhouse!
Last week I received an email from Camille, a friend up in Washington that I met via Peter and Alison (Alison wrote about her garden here). Camille included a few Agave photos with her email and I...
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Bloomday, November 2018
Oh November, you were cruising along all dreamy and then...bam! That harsh east-wind kicked up and things got cold. Not that the garden has had a freeze, which is nice, but it hurts to be outside. I...
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The garden of Donna Fowler, from the 2018 GB Fling...
On day 2 of the Austin GB Fling both buses converged on the garden of Donna Fowler for lunch. You know a garden is large when it can host 90-ish people who all spread out and find a spot to sit down...
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The Kuzma/Halme Garden, late summer 2018 visit
Back in September I visited the Kuzma Garden wait no, make that the Kuzma/Halme Garden, John and Kathleen were married in August, and Kathleen is already quite plant savvy and taking an active roll in...
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Gerdemann Botanic Preserve, the public trail
As I mentioned last week Andrew and I recently walked the public trail next to the Gerdemann Botanic Preserve in Yachats, Oregon.The trail began between a cluster of art galleries, walking past them...
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Wednesday Vignette, perfection
Faithful blog readers will no doubt recognize this vignette from the garden covered in Monday's blog post, and countless other posts over the years. It's such a dreamy vignette that I needed to let it...
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Thankful...
First I just posted the photo, then I started with my gratitude list, then I tried to somehow acknowledge that it's ugly out there in this world. I gave up and deleted it all. But you know me, I can't...
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Visiting Portland's Japanese Garden
All during the month of November members of Portland's Chinese garden have free, reciprocal, membership at the Japanese Garden. I love this program! I never think about visiting the Japanese...
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Shade Pavilion Greenhouse 3.0 — the big reveal!
As you may have read earlier, this was the year Andrew wanted to up his game for the Shade Pavilion Greenhouse (SPG). He started sketching early, but then things kinda stalled. When you're inventing a...
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The garden of Jeff Pavlat, an Austin Fling "extra"
This, the garden of Jeff Pavlat, is the last of the "extra" gardens I saw after the Fling proper ended last May. Jeff is working at Zilker Botanical Garden (my post on the Botanical Garden is still...
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Wednesday Vignette, 25 MPH
From the garden of Tait Moring, a stop on the Austin Garden Bloggers Fling. I just loved the juxtaposition of spikes and (lack of) speed. More photos from this garden soon...Weather Diary, Nov 27: Hi...
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Inside the Amazon Spheres Part One: green-walls and carnivorous plants
When I visited Seattle last February, for the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, the Amazon Spheres had just opened. I wandered around outside snapping lots of photos (shared here) and dreamt...
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Inside the Amazon Spheres Part Two: the rest of the cool stuff
So while this is the "everything else" part of my Spheres visit it by no means is the leftovers.I could have stood right here, taking in just this scene for an hour or so, maybe more. They're taking...
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A late November trip to Cistus Nursery
Back on November 18th I joined a group of local plant lovers who descended upon Cistus Nursery for a shopping and social event.The weather could not have been better, the Aesculus californica,...
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