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My takeaways from the big display gardens at the 2019 Northwest Flower and...
Another NW Flower and Garden Show/Festival is over. As always the main event for me is catching up with friends and online acquaintances with the backdrop of spring and a new gardening year. The big...
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Kalama Harbor Lodge
Last year a new McMenamins opened in Kalama, WA. This one is a change from the traditional McMenamins formula of rehabbing an existing property. I guess when a great location right on the Columbia...
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Wednesday Vignette; that was then, this is now...
Yesterday I took you on a visit to McMenamins Kalama Harbor Lodge and shared photos of a large Agave (and its pups) planted out in front of the lodge, along the Columbia river. Since those photos were...
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City Living at the 2019 Northwest Flower & Garden Show
The City Living Display Gardens are always among my favorite things at the NWFG Show. They have an urban design focus, unlike the huge display gardens with waterfalls, McMansion sheds, and rocks the...
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Sharing a dirty little secret (orchids, at the NWFGS)
Every year at the NWFG Show there's a display garden put together by the NW Orchid Society.Even though I'm not an orchid fan (uhm *cough*) I always check out the display, it's one of the few entirely...
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In a vase at the NWFG Show
When people refer to the NWFG Show as "the flower show" it always surprises me. Of course it is called the NW FLOWER and Garden Show (or er, Festival), but I think of it as the garden show. The one...
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Things to buy, at the 2019 NWFGS
Those bored by my continuing coverage of the Seattle garden show take heart, this is the last post...For its first couple of years I refused to shop the show's Vintage Market on the principle it was...
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Wednesday Vignette, Nerd Night plants
Here in the Portland area we have a long running late winter/early spring tradition called Nerd Night. Plant people gather, nursery owners talk dirty to us (you know, plants and pictures of plants) and...
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The Pacific Connections Garden at Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum
Last October, with just a few minutes to kill, I made an impromptu stop at the Pacific Connections Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum.These plants are just off Washington Park Blvd, a busy street,...
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The Pat Calvert Greenhouse and the Graham Visitors Center...again
While I didn't make it by to check on the Pacific Connections Garden during my late February trip up to Seattle I did manage to stop in at the Pat Calvert Greenhouse at the Arboretum.Several branches...
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Old Germantown Gardens in late winter...
There are so many great gardens around the Portland area, ones I've had the pleasure of visiting many times during the "garden touring" season. Sometimes though, I get the opportunity to visit in the...
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Tacoma nursery visits on the way to Seattle...
It seems that Andrew and I cannot make the trip up to Seattle without stopping in Tacoma on the way. Our latest outing was back on February 20th, headed up for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. We...
View ArticleTEN YEARS! And some exciting news...
Today marks ten years since I hit publish for the first time on this blog. Are you wondering how many posts that is? Two thousand six hundred and fifty six...2,656! That's a lot of garden talk.I looked...
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Visiting Dr Wott's garden...
Another of the Seattle garden's I visited on the NHS Board tour last August was that of Dr John Wott.A former Director of the UW Arboretum I also know of Mr. Wott's garden through a friend, Preston...
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March 2019 Bloomday
If ever there was a Bloomday that I felt like I could skip this would be the one. Since February's Bloomday everything has been a holding pattern, due to the cold. If you page down and are overcome...
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Agaves for sale, house included
Cutting through a residential neighborhood, en route to somewhere, I realized I was only a block away from a pair of favorite Agave ovatifolia. Of course I had to take a look, that's when I saw their...
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Visiting Rita Lee's Nursery
Saturday March 9th started bright and early. When I would normally still be in my pajamas on the couch I was fully dressed and in Gervais, Oregon visiting a small, family owned, cactus and succulent...
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Wednesday Vignette, a Desert Museum leftover
Somehow I missed sharing this metal sculpture in my coverage of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which is a shame because I rather liked it. So...it get's its own post now...Weather Diary, March 19:...
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Where I return to the garden of Marcia Donahue
Sometimes I have to pinch myself, am I dreaming or is this real?Turns out on this particular occasion it was very real.December 7th, 2018 and I was standing in front of Marcia Donahue's house in...
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Cistus Nursery, in mid-March
I usually make at least one winter-time visit to Cistus, this year I went from the wreath making visit last November all the way to March 13th without stopping by. I was obviously long overdue...This...
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