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Agave spotting...
I love to take the road I've not yet traveled. If I have the time I'll purposely take an alternate route wherever I'm going. That's how you discover great plantings, one's you wouldn't have otherwise...
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Nepenthes reward
I bought my first Nepenthes alata at the Portland Nursery houseplant sale, January 2018. Since it's a tropical plant it had to spend the next few months under lights, in the basement. That poor plant...
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Mary DeNoyer's garden, a Study Weekend visit
The first garden I set out to see during the HPSO Study Weekend event in late June was that of Mary DeNoyer. She and I cross paths during local garden events and she doesn't live all that far away from...
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Wednesday Vignette, the latest in security systems
My brother, who lives in Phoenix, sent me this photo of the latest and greatest in sustainable security systems there. Ain't nobody who wants to mess with those spines and glochids.His photo reminded...
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An unexpected nursery visit...
Last week I had an appointment to meet a friend at her garden, take a few photos, and talk about her fantastic container collection. Looking around I commented on a few large clumps of sempervivum...
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Flashback: Alberta and friends...six years ago
Looking back at a blog post—Alberta and friends, happy in the ground—from 2013, I was shocked to see how small the featured plants were when they went in, and by comparison how big they are now. This...
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The Oregon Association of Nurseries 2019 Farwest Show
Another Farwest "national nursery and greenhouse trade show" has come and gone...as usual it's the people who come to town for the show make it such a great experience. This year I was privileged to be...
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The garden of Erin and Brian Ray, a Study Weekend visit
The next garden I visited, as part of the Study Weekend event, was one I'd wanted to see for a long while; the garden of Erin and Brian Ray...It's always a good sign when you park near a garden and get...
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Wednesday Vignette, the garden is behind you silly
This WV comes from the Scripter garden, a stop on the 2019 GB Fling. While everyone else was admiring the Lauren Springer Ogden designed prairie meadow behind me, I was lost in the patina and geometry...
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The Scripter Garden, a 2019 GB Fling stop
The owners of this garden, Mary and Larry Scripter, welcomed us with a hand-painted sign at the garden entrance.Not this one—which reads NATIVE GRASS UNDER CONSTRUCTION—but one kind of like it. Such a...
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Ptilostemon afer
I'm sure I've mentioned that I'm not a particularly gifted grower of plants from seed. I can count on my 10 fingers the seeds I've had success with, that is they've gone on to become full fledged...
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Dosch Court Hillside Garden, from the HPSO Study Weekend
You never know what you're going to see when visiting an open garden. Sure there's usually a description available somewhere, but I've visited many a garden that bear no relation to the words used to...
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Ecovibe Home, on Alberta
You know how it is. You're cruising along, headed somewhere, when out of the corner of your eye you see...plants! Suddenly you're pulling over and parking, schedule be damned. That's how I ended up at...
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Wednesday Vignette; Cereus hildmannianus spiralis
Can you imagine what it must be like to be that big strapping Dracaena draco (dragon tree) and yet consistently be upstaged by that short curly guy in front? Must be difficult...Cereus hildmannianus...
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If you've wanted to own a nursery and have adequate funds...
The last time I was up in Spokane I stopped in at Tower Perennials on my way out of town...It's a nursery I have a love/hate relationship with. I love the plants, the display gardens, and have always...
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Following up on a banana tip...
I can't remember which post the comment appeared on, but a local reader asked something about this garden and referenced its location. I'd never been by, so I couldn't answer. I did however make note...
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Revisiting Seattle's Pacific Connections garden; the summer after their...
Longtime readers may remember my previous visits to the Pacific Connections Garden at the UW Arboretum. The last visit I wrote about took place in October of 2018 (here) and things were looking lovely....
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Feeling blue?
Not feeling blue because of the view, that's for sure. How beautiful is this?Today we're headed back to Santa Barbara and April's Bromeliad Summit. One of the gardens we visited on the final day of the...
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Wednesday Vignette, verbascum
We visited Panayoti Kelaidis' garden as part of the the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling, when we arrived our buses parked in a lot adjacent to this field. I had to laugh at such a signature Panayoti plant...
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Visiting the garden of Panayoti Kelaidis
I cheated.We visited many wonderful gardens during the 2019 GB Fling in Colorado, but we had an extremely short amount of time in some of them, Panayoti's garden for example; only 35 minutes! How do...
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