After leaving City People's Garden Store, I considered coming home and playing in the garden in the sunshine. Instead, the plant mobile took me to Bremerton City Nursery which I'd visited for the first time in November of last year. (Post here.) What a treat it was to discover a new place and how sad that it was toward the end of the season. Here are a few of the many great offerings.
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I've not grown them since my Alaska gardening days where we lifted the tubers that look like little bunches of bananas each fall and stored them inside.
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They probably need the same treatment here because they don't like our wet winters and critters love to eat them.
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So enjoying them at nurseries is enough. Do you grow these outside as perennials? What kind of luck do you have? Do you stuff them into pots as seasonal color and discard them when they're done blooming?
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On to more fun stuff from the nursery - This sun room area was added at the same time as my garage finished its surgery to change it into a greenhouse. It was fun to compare notes with one of the owners about our first winter with new green house spaces.
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The tag from the grower said only "Octopus Agave." Could this be Agave vilmoriniana? This one is pretty fragile, the leaves tearing easily. It was also inexpensive so it came home with me.
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I'm seeing Euphorbia flanaganii on the market more lately. Their unusual and a bit unpredictable growth habit makes me love them!
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This idea will be copied! Replacing votive candle holders with terra cotta pots of sedum or tillandsias is inspired! One more thing to keep one's eyes peeled for at thrift shops!
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A nice pot of fire sticks jumped in my cart as well. Someone left his outside last fall. Before you tell me that I should fire the firm that maintains my garden, (Me, Myself, and I, a lazy lot but they work for nothing.) you should know that the plant had some sort disfiguring insect pest that wasn't responding to organic interventions and I didn't want to drag bad bugs into the greenhouse.
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Because I was busy grabbing inexpensive tillandsias, I forgot to take pictures of them but they had just received a nice assortment from Little Prince of Oregon! Bremerton City Nursery packs a lot of quality and varied merchandise into their space and is worth a visit if you're ever in the area!
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I wonder if those pots get planted up later or if they're decorative just the way they are.
The outdoor areas are beginning to fill up. How exciting!
Ranunculus with their many delicate looking petals fascinate me.
I've not grown them since my Alaska gardening days where we lifted the tubers that look like little bunches of bananas each fall and stored them inside.
They probably need the same treatment here because they don't like our wet winters and critters love to eat them.
So enjoying them at nurseries is enough. Do you grow these outside as perennials? What kind of luck do you have? Do you stuff them into pots as seasonal color and discard them when they're done blooming?
On to more fun stuff from the nursery - This sun room area was added at the same time as my garage finished its surgery to change it into a greenhouse. It was fun to compare notes with one of the owners about our first winter with new green house spaces.
The tag from the grower said only "Octopus Agave." Could this be Agave vilmoriniana? This one is pretty fragile, the leaves tearing easily. It was also inexpensive so it came home with me.
I'm seeing Euphorbia flanaganii on the market more lately. Their unusual and a bit unpredictable growth habit makes me love them!
This idea will be copied! Replacing votive candle holders with terra cotta pots of sedum or tillandsias is inspired! One more thing to keep one's eyes peeled for at thrift shops!
A nice pot of fire sticks jumped in my cart as well. Someone left his outside last fall. Before you tell me that I should fire the firm that maintains my garden, (Me, Myself, and I, a lazy lot but they work for nothing.) you should know that the plant had some sort disfiguring insect pest that wasn't responding to organic interventions and I didn't want to drag bad bugs into the greenhouse.
Aloe "Blue Elf"
Of course, hellebores wer everywhere.
Because I was busy grabbing inexpensive tillandsias, I forgot to take pictures of them but they had just received a nice assortment from Little Prince of Oregon! Bremerton City Nursery packs a lot of quality and varied merchandise into their space and is worth a visit if you're ever in the area!
Wishing you many happy garden surprises!
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