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Garden Bloggers Bloomday, September 2019
I'm early! Is that better than being late? September 15th, this coming Sunday, is Garden Bloggers Bloomday. September, how is that even possible? The calendar marches on. Here's what's blooming in my...
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A vase full of sarracenia...
Several of my sarracenia pitchers had bent and fallen over. I'm tempted to blame the squirrels, as I've seen them jump right through the plants in a frenzy, looking for somewhere to hide their nuts. I...
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Visiting the garden of Kelly Grummons
The day after the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling wrapped, Andrew and I headed to the Denver Botanic Garden. I'd had a painfully short time to explore during the Fling, and Andrew was being a good sport....
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Wednesday Vignette, tools of the trade
Walking through Kelly Grummons' opuntia house I spotted this collection of tools. Should you want to cut off an opuntia pad, or two, here's everything you need to be safe. That knife is especially...
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Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron’
Early one morning last month I was out watering and snapped a photo of my Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron’ (aka Japanese Blood Grass), lit by the sun.Before I posted the photo to Instagram I checked to...
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Bye bye phormium...
As you walk into the back garden this beauty of a phormium is on your right, or at least it used to be.I looked back through my old blog posts and found photo evidence if it being in this spot as early...
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My 2019 HPSO PlantFest Haul...
Saturday September 14th was our Hardy Plant Society of Oregon's Fall PlantFest. What does that mean? A speaker and a plant sale. This was the first time in years that I didn't have out-of-town guests...
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Every late summer/early fall I do an extensive garden tour post. I've taken photos for this year's tour, but since the book deadline is looming large I don't have time to edit and organize the photos....
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Wednesday Vignette, plants are cool
Last weekend I climbed back behind our tallest palm, a Trachycarpus fortunei, to cut back a couple of crispy Macleaya cordata stems. While there I looked up to see if I could spot any bomarea seeds on...
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Christine and Jim Mitchell's garden, a stop on the HPSO Study Weekend
This was my second visit to Christine and Jim Mitchell's garden, the first was on a very smoky day in 2015 when a few of us garden bloggers visited on preview for the HPSO/Garden Conservancy tour.The...
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Bromeliads in the landscape, during the Bromeliad Summit
I saw an amazing collection of gardens during the Bromeliad Summit last April in Santa Barbara (this one, and this one, and this one, for example). While they all featured a few plants in the bromeliad...
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The Chatfield affair...
I'm not finished with my 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling coverage—I still have several gardens to share—but I am jumping to the final event...Our buses dropped us of here, in front of the visitors center,...
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My orchid on a stick bloomed! And other goings on...
While portions of the U.S. are baking in still-summer-like heat, we up here in the northwest corner of the country are freezing. As a result of this untimely cold snap—it's 37 out there this...
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Wednesday Vignette, what the heck?
We're back in one of the gardens from April's Bromeliad Summit (this one). As I was going through the last of the photos, deciding what to post, I saw something I don't remember seeing "in real...
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And that's (almost) a wrap from the Bromeliad Summit
Just a few more photos to finish up my (multiple) posts on the garden I wasn't sure I wanted to write about, funny how that worked out.The light was bright, the plants were massed.And large, specimen...
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Fungus grows on the PCT
I stood in this very spot on September 19th and waved goodbye to my husband as he walked away—starting a 4-day adventure covering some 50 miles from Mt Hood to Cascade Locks, a small town on the...
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A new "fern dish"...
This photo was taken back in early September, when it was warmer, much warmerFor years these two dish planters were planted with Adiantum venustum (Himalayan maidenhair fern) and Athyrium niponicum...
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The will to reproduce
The will to reproduce is strong, and I'm not talking about humans, but plants (I'll leave the subject of human reproduction for some other blog). I find it especially fabulous when an agave shoots a...
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Wednesday Vignette; tiny crevice garden
As you may have realized—if you didn't already know—Colorado is crevice garden central. I was really looking forward to seeing them all when the Garden Bloggers Fling visited Colorado last June.This...
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The Borland Garden, a stop on the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling
I really enjoyed this garden, one from the 2019 Fling in Colorado. Unfortunately my photos don't much back-up the experience.Maybe because the front garden was so densely planted. Layers and layers of...
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