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The Amazon Stumps...
The first day of my visit to the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival ended up being such a lovely sunny day that I decided to leave the Convention Center behind and go for a walk. Where did I end...
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That's a wrap on my 2019 Lotusland visit...
Just a week shy of the 1 year anniversary and I'm wrapping up coverage of last year's trip to Lotusland. We'll start with a few random photos and then move on to the cactus garden. Here's a blooming...
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Shopping while social distancing at Joy Creek Nursery...
Like many other states, Oregon is currently under a "stay-at-home" order issued by our governor at the request of the mayors of our most populous cities. That was not the case back on March 18th when I...
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Visiting Cistus Nursery, before we were grounded
To recap from yesterday, back on May 18th I took a drive out to Joy Creek Nursery (photos here) and then to Cistus Nursery. While we were told to maintain a 6-ft distance between people and not...
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Wednesday Vignette, opuntia patch
I am always thrilled when I spot a new-to-me patch of opuntia. These are in SE Portland, just a block off a street I travel all the time...So spiky! I'm not bending to take these photos, the plants...
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Part One of my 2019 visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden
Last year on this date I boarded an early morning flight to Sacramento, CA, where my friend Gerhard was waiting curbside to pick me up. The next morning we would be leaving his place in Davis, bound...
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Part Two of my 2019 visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden
Yesterday I began a tour through the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California, with photos I took in 2019, today we continue...The spiral aloe, Aloe polyphylla. I had one of these with a good...
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New spikes in my garden...
You probably think I'm talking about new plants, right? An agave or maybe an opuntia? Nope, not this time...Sometime in late January I noticed the hose hanging on the back of our house was covered in...
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Solo shopping at Secret Garden Growers
The weekend before our Governor officially issued a stay-at-home order I emailed with Pat Thompson about paying a visit to her rural Oregon nursery, Secret Garden Growers. She'd posted on Facebook...
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Wednesday Vignette: opuntia + a killer tree house
Out on an afternoon walk (an attempt to save our sanity) I came across another new-to-me opuntia.This one is even starting to develop a woody base.The fence behind it was pretty cool too......and then...
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Too late for the annual tour? Photos from my garden last August; the front...
August 2019 was a lifetime ago. Things were so different then. The garden was hot and dry, I was deep in the throes of writing a book. A hug upon meeting up with a friend wasn't something you turned...
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Photos from my garden last August; the back garden
We're back! Back in the back garden in 2019 that is. Yesterday we took a look at the front garden (here), now we've stepped through the gate and are confronted with plants. Lots of plants! It's a...
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Shopping Sebright Gardens on a Sunny Sunday
Sebright Gardens! I first discovered them for their hostas, but now love them for their ferns.Back on April 5th Andrew and I took a drive south with Sebright as our destination. They are open for...
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Sebright Gardens...yes, there are gardens
So after shopping at Sebright I had to wander the display gardens, I started near that glorious stand of bamboo...Oh man! Clianthus puniceus such a cool plant, sadly it's not reliably hardy here.I was...
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April Bloomday, 2020
Here it is, Garden Blogger's Bloomday—the 15th of April. I've faithfully recorded what's blooming in my garden—and linking up to Carol's Bloomday posts—since April of 2009. That's 11 years of monthly...
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Where the verbasum are...
If we head out for an afternoon sanity walk, we take turns calling the route. Andrew's are direct and all about putting in the steps. Mine are meandering and all about seeing interesting things. I...
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Visiting Rancho Cistus
After I wandered all around Cistus Nursery last month, I then meandered down the drive and visited Rancho Cistus, to see how Sean Hogan and Preston Pew's "new" garden is shaping up...A couple years...
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The Proctor Garden, from the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling
As luck would have it, I've still got a few garden tours to share from the Denver Fling, last June! This year's Fling, in Madison, Wisconsin, has been postponed until summer 2021, so there will be no...
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Refreshing the sunny dish planters, and other small projects...
Nothing lulls me into feeling like life is cruising along at speed normal quite like getting lost working in the garden. Thankfully the weather has been cooperating and us Portlander's have been...
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Wednesday Vignette, George
I skipped going on this afternoon walk with Andrew, content to stay home and work in the garden. I asked that he take photos of interesting things he saw, knowing there wasn't much of a chance, he...
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