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Lotusland's horticultural clock
I have so many photos yet to share from my April visit to Lotusland; so looking for something quick to write about today I thought of the garden's 25-foot round horticultural clock. The clock is...
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Visiting San Marcos Growers
The final morning of April's Bromeliad Summit, in Santa Barbara, kicked off bright and early at San Marcos Growers, a large wholesale nursery.This was my second visit to San Marcos, the first was back...
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Immediate plant lust: Flying Dragon Tongue Fern
I was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and visited Swanson's Nursery with my friend Erin. We were looking for a small tree for her, but of course I'm always on the hunt for any plant that might catch...
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Wednesday Vignette, when in need...
I can't imagine a more lovely location for a porta-potty...A lot of the independent nurseries in the Portland area have porta-pottys for customers to use while shopping—thus I've seen quite the range...
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This garden has Urban Soule
After following @urbansoule on Instagram, and then drooling all over Kim McCarthy's cramscaped City Living Display 'The Botanist Balcony' at the 2019 NWFG Festival, I was thrilled to visit her personal...
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I've been known to wander off...
Put me in a garden, or a nursery, and I will inevitably end up in some corner that I shouldn't be in. Maybe it's not technically an off-limits area, but it just feels that way so the entire time I'm...
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The Garden in Concourse C
Mid-June we flew into the Denver Airport, Concourse C specifically. Since we were in Denver to attend the 2019 Garden Blogger's Fling, gardens were on my mind. Yet I would have completely missed this...
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The rock garden, at Rancho Cistus
Earlier in the month I wrote about my visit to Linda Wisner's garden Flicker Farm, on Sauvie Island. That was my last stop as part of the official HPSO Study Weekend, and I made sure to leave Linda's...
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Wednesday Vignette; my Cracked Pots haul
The annual Cracked Pots event at McMenamins Edgefield ("Cascadia’s longest-running reuse, reclaimed, and upcycled artwork event") was held back on July 9th and 10th. The show seemed to have a great...
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More from McMenamins Edgefield
No visit to a McMenamins is complete without a walk around the garden, so of course I snapped some garden photos when I was there for the Cracked Pots event in early July.I should have asked someone to...
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danger garden on PlantPop
On June 4th Haydn Cieri set up a video camera in my garden. He was here to film for PlantPop—a horticultural film studio; "We tell stories about people and plants. We are artists. We pursue beauty and...
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August is vine time...
I have a few evergreen vines—Akebia longeracemosa 'Victor's Secret' and Lardizabala biternata, to name two—that look great year round. But for those that die back over the winter to return in the...
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The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants —recommended summer...
I don't usually review or recommend books until I've finished reading them—but I can't wait any longer to tell you that you MUST read this book, in your garden, this summer.I've been slowly working my...
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Wednesday Vignette; the plant maintenance facility at Denver City Park
During Andrew's Denver wanderings he ended up in City Park, a 330 acre park in east-central Denver. According to Wikipedia, the park is home to the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science,...
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Linda Boley's garden, a stop on the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling
I'm jumping back to June and the garden of Linda Boley, which is actually in Boulder, CO—we covered a lot of territory under the guise of a trip to Denver.I loved Linda's garden. At the time I remember...
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Experiments in vertical gardening
I've been experimenting with mounted bromeliads. I didn't sign up for class, instead I decided to jump right in and "just do it." Kind of like when I built my fern table before I attended a class on...
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The garden of Richard Hartlage
One year (to the day) after I visited this garden, I'm finally sharing photos with you. This garden was one of four Seattle gardens I visited as part of the Northwest Horticultural Society meet the...
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A few good links...
My blog reader used to be filled with new posts from blogs I follow, at least 20 + when I checked it in the morning, and another 10 or so at night, as I read on my iPad before falling asleep. Those...
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Wednesday Vignette, looking back
November of 2011 I shared a blog post with a year's worth of photos taken looking straight out our front door, roughly once a week, in the morning. I won't go into the inspiration behind the idea, but...
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August 2019 Bloomday
The August garden seems to be just sliding on by. Nothing really shocking or new happening, things just cruising along...enjoying the sun and the heat, just like me.Indigofera amblyantha (above and...
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