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Seven Gardens, Two Nurseries, Six Hours part VIII City People's Garden Store
You may remember past visits to this cool nursery here and here. For those of us addicted to plants and gardening, there's always something new and wonderful to find at just about any nursery and this...
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My Favorite Plant This Week is... Gee, I don't Know, Do You?
About 23 years ago we moved into an old house and there was, planted beside a window a pink rose whose canes grew very tall each year begging for a trellis. I asked the former owner, who had grown up...
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The Rhododendron Species Garden Spring Sale 2014
On April 18th after work, I drove up the road a few miles to attend a plant sale that I seldom miss. (Previous post here.) It's a delight to have a plant sale that's so close to home and work. Sorry...
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So, There's this Garden
I bet there are gardens like this in your town to; gardens that just about everyone passes at 40 miles an hour because they're on main thoroughfares but there's something about them that makes them...
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The Garden of Shelagh Tucker; Seven Gardens, Two Nurseries, Six Hours the...
Alison and I both loved this garden which she'd visited two summers ago when the garden bloggers' fling was held in Seattle. She was excited to see the garden again and to share it with me. If this...
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Hatiora gaertneri (I think) is My Favorite Plant in the Garden...This Week
I'm joining with Loree at Danger Garden in celebrating a plant that has particularly tickled me this week.Last summer, Alison and I visited Sally Priest at Western Horticultural Products (WEHOP) and...
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This season, Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones, creators of Heronswood are opening Windcliff, their current garden to Northwest Perennial Alliance members a couple of Fridays a month. I was very excited to...
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And Speaking of Dragonflies...
Another nursery that Alison and I love and visited on our Windcliff adventure was Dragonfly Farms Nursery. (Many previous posts here.) Heidi always has fun and unusual plants and interesting stories...
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Rare Plant Research Part One; The Plants
Back in the middle of May, Alison and I drove down to Oregon City to attend the annual spring nursery open at Rare Plant Research. I'd bought RPR plants from Jungle fever and Dig for years, enjoyed...
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Rare Plant Research 2; The Place
From the Rare Plant Research "About Us" page come these words:"Burl Mostul founded Rare Plant Research, a specialty nursery, in 1987. In the early years the nursery focused on plant research,...
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Luncheon in the Garden of Good. And Evil
Far from Savannah, after we left the fabulous Rare Plant Research open, Alison, Loree and I met at McMenamins Kennedy School for lunch. McMenamins does an amazing job of re purposing cool old...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day June 2014
How can it be the middle of June already? It's the fifteenth of the month and time to join with Carol at May Dreams Gardens and garden bloggers all over the world to post what's blooming in our...
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Foliage Follow-Up June 2013
Each month on the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Pam Penick hosts Foliage Follow-Up to remind us of the importance of foliage in our gardens every day of the year! Click on over to her blog to...
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Beth's Garden
I had the pleasure of seeing Beth's garden a few weeks ago when I went to pick up a mirror she had offered to give me when she saw that I used them in my garden. It's amazing the nice people one meets...
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Someone Else's Words for Wednesday - Poppy buds from Beth's Garden
New Beginningsby Gertrude McClainIt's only the beginning now,A pathway yet unknown.At times the sound of other steps,Sometimes we walk alone.The best beginnings of our livesMay sometimes end in...
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A Wonderful Secret - Visiting Lee Hiatt "The Hidden Grower"
When I'm feeling down (January - March) I think that at my age there won't be any more pleasant surprises in life and that I could die happily. Every now and then, a serendipitous occurrence makes...
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Euphorbia stygiana is my Favorite Plant...This Week
You may remember my post in March about Euphorbia stygiana after our big freeze. I thought it was a goner and a sensible, tidy gardener would have yanked the poor thing out immediately but I mostly...
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A Return to Judi Hook's Garden
I love garden art and am especially fond of the work of Judi Hook. Fortunately, she enjoys sharing her latest work with me. See some previous visits here. A few weeks ago, I got to see what Judi's...
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