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A jury of your peers...
Civic duty called earlier this week and I found myself in downtown Portland serving time as a potential juror. Monday was the latest in a string of glorious sunny days (mid 80's!) so come lunch time I...
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Checking back in...
As I mentioned yesterday I was away from the garden for a couple of days earlier in the week. I know, just a couple of days! But after all it is spring and things are happening fast. Wednesday morning...
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Desert Jewels…
I’ve come to realize most of the rest of the country thinks all of the Pacific Northwest is rainy and moss covered. It’s simply not true! Once you get on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountain Range...
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More from downtown Portland…
For lunch on my second day of jury duty I decided to visit the Portland Waterfront and see what the plantings look like in the springtime, since I only ever seem to visit them in the fall. However...
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May 2013, Bloomday...
Happy May Garden Bloggers Bloomday! It's a very bloom-a-rific time here in Portland, Oregon, and in my garden. Things get a little crazy when you plant for foliage with little regard for bloom color....
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Adiantum pedatum, my favorite plant in the garden (this week)...
During one of my many plant purging digs (our fist summer here) I uncovered a tiny graceful black stem with the brightest of chartreuse leaves. It had been buried under an over grown mass of “those...
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Bloomday at the danger garden annex…
It’s been awhile since I’ve claimed the nearby Kennedy School Gardens as the danger garden annex but after walking the grounds earlier this week I was so excited by all the blooming things that I had...
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My visit to Tower Perennials…
Another nursery that I had the pleasure of visiting during my April trip to Spokane, WA, was Tower Perennial Gardens...I'd only been to Tower once before and that was last June after the Friends of...
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Wrong plant, wrong place
Yes that’s right. This is the wrong plant for me…And it is in the wrong place. Wouldn’t you agree? For those of you keeping track it was just a month and a half ago that I wrote“So now the only plant...
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Rare Plant Research, 2013
The last few years my enthusiasm for the Rare Plant Research Open House had somewhat dwindled, a fact best illustrated by my declining purchases (maybe I already had all their cool stuff?).However this...
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Out and about...
Yes it's that time again, time to share a random bunch of disconnected photos, the only thing these have in common is the fact that they caught my eye...Fake succulents are all the rage, want the look...
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Echium x wildpretii 'Rocket' is my favorite plant in the garden, this week…
It’s time has come; the monster must be celebrated...This Echium x wildpretii 'Rocket' is remaining one of a pair I bought at Xera Plants the summer of 2010. Here are the twins the day they came home...
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Q. Andrew: “How many Schefflera do we need?”A. Loree: “as many as Mark & Gaz...
A quick stop at Garden Fever last weekend yielded an unexpected surprise…a new (for me) Schefflera! We stopped in looking for the next office plant component for Andrew, but of course I had to do a...
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Visiting Wind Dancer with the grass guy…
One of the many things I love about the garden blogging community is that we all have our own distinctive passions, and yet we enjoy them all because they stem from a love of gardening and PLANTS!...
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Evidence of a past gardener…
I grew up in a house my parents had built for us, the newness and sense of possibility were very exciting. No one had ever lived there before, it was all ours! However as an adult I've become quite...
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Wingthorn Rose; my favorite plant in the garden this week…
Most of last week was a complete washout, it was cold (record cold high temp of 50F) and very wet (record rainfall of 1.19” both occurring on Wed the 22nd). The week saw more rain than we typically get...
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Schefflera-land, all planted up…
When last I posted about Schefflera-land it had just earned the name after having been planted up with both S. delavayi and S. taiwaniana. Since then I’ve been busy adding to the plantings and I’m...
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Yes as a matter of fact I did get rid of some lawn…
This update is a long time coming! Back in December I queried you all for your thoughts on what shape my lawn removal project should take. You all shared many excellent ideas and in the end I went with...
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Easily distracted
When I was supposed to be taking pictures for yesterday's post I found myself distracted by the Melianthus major 'Antonow's Blue'...The flowers are unusual and I'm so happy it's bloomed...But it's the...
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Just rip that band-aid off!
I was originally going to title this post “better already!” but I think I’ve already used something like that so instead the band-aid analogy.Part of me was seriously entertaining the idea of waiting...
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