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Thicket on Alberta, it's been too long...
Thicket, on Alberta street, is a little over a mile from my house. So why don't I visit more often? That's what I'm asking myself...I finally broke my long dry spell when I stopped in a couple weeks...
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Opening night for the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling, at The GrowHaus
Each year the Garden Bloggers Fling begins with an opening night bash. Held on Thursday evening—before the event proper gets underway on Friday morning—it's an opportunity for experienced fingers to...
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Janice and Richard DeVore’s garden, from the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling
It was Friday afternoon before we visited the first private garden as part of the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling. By then I was getting a little twitchy. I hadn't been in my garden for over 48 hours. I was...
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Wednesday Vignette: ?
The day before we left for Denver (for the GB Fling) I took the yard waste and recyclables out to the curb and was astonished by the perfect question mark the Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' bloom...
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apotspot pots, in my garden
While I was off touring gardens as part of the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling in Colorado, I got a message from Claire Bandfield of apotspot. She had set aside a few of her hand-cast stone pots if I wanted...
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The Japanese Garden lanterns, at Lotusland
The lecture portion of the 2019 Bromeliad Summit took place at Lotusland. The attendees met up in the parking lot and walked the long the main drive to what was Ganna Walksa's private residence, back...
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Cactus Mart, finally!
Back in 2012 I wrote about a nursery I'd only visited through their chain-link fence. It happened more than once too, I'd attempt to visit Cactus Mart, just outside Fillmore, CA, only to find them...
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My second visit to the Hillside Desert Botanical Gardens
My first visit to Ron McKitrick's Hillside Desert Botanical Gardens was on a rainy June day in 2012 (here). Seven years later I made my second pilgrimage, on a sunny, warm, day in May...For those of...
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Wednesday Vignette; well played Dale
It's an unpopular opinion, but I don't care for Dale Chihuly glass. Never have. Not even a little. Well, except I adore these pieces at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The color, the shape,...
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Welcome to Yakima, the Palm Springs of Washington...
After leaving Ron's Hillside Desert Botanic Gardens and heading out of town I spotted a sign that made my day, considering where I had just spent the last few hours...Of course I had to know more and...
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The spikes of Portland...
Last weekend was the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon's huge Study Weekend event. Over 400 people from mostly the PNW, but also country wide (California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut to name a few) converged...
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SW Portland garden pest infestation...
Word got out early, via Instagram, that one of the gardens on the Saturday line-up of Study Weekend garden tours was experiencing an infestation of parasites.No, not a gnome infestation...Nor was it a...
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Floramagoria; it doesn't disappoint
Floramagoria is one of those gardens that imprints itself so vividly on your psyche that to visit once is to be able to return, in living color, whenever your mind calls up the garden. Which may be why...
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Wednesday Vignette, when an echium seeds itself in a pathway...
What to do when an adorable little Echium wildpretii seeds itself out in the gravel pathway and your garden is going to be open on a tour?Well, if your the owners of Floramagoria you make that echium a...
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Digitalis some something, takes me by surprise...
Our summer—thus far—has not been continuous days of blazing hot sunshine. I'm not going to complain, there's still the rest of July and August for that, hopefully. One overcast morning last week I...
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So about that Austin Fling raffle prize...
When last I photographed that bright chartreuse ModDish planter, from Steel Life, I had just returned home from winning it at the Austin Garden Bloggers Fling. I was actually writing about another...
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July's Bloomday, 2019
It's July Bloomday! Let's take a look at what's blooming in my garden.Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla, an under-appreciated beauty.I couldn't get a decent photo of the Echeveria 'Arrow Setosa'...
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Flicker Farm on Sauvie Island
As part of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon's Study Weekend event in June I visited Flicker Farm Gardens for a second time, my first visit was back in 2016. This is a large garden, one and a third...
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Wednesday Vignette, rusty balls at Flicker Farm
I've been rather vocal about my dislike of art in the garden, just for ART's sake.A pyramid of rusty balls in a mown field though, I like this.Weather Diary, July 16: Hi 82, Low 65/ Precip...
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The Nest, at Flicker Farm
I've got just one last post from my June visit to Flicker Farm, on Sauvie Island. Today I give you—The Nest, a work in progress...This is just the kind of thing I imagine having fun with, if I had the...
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