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How to Begin a Fling in Middle Age
O.K. already, I'm pushing the truth a little with the middle age thing. How many 104 year old men do you know? Recently, a group of about 70 garden bloggers from around the world met in San...
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Justin Galicic's Magic: The 2013 Normandy Park Garden Festival
This weekend, Alison Bonnie Lassie and I had the pleasure of attending the second annual Normandy Park Garden Festival, coordinated by Justin Galicic who writes the blog Growing Steady, formerly known...
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Hardy Fuchsias, my favorite plant in the garden this week.
In the gardens of my Alaskan hometown, many a fuchsia basket was hung and appreciated. They seemed so exotic with their loud flower colors and generosity of bloom. Imagine my surprise many years...
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The Organic Mechanics' Paradise Garden
Colin Thompson's book, The Paradise Garden, is about a little boy named Peter who is driven crazy by the urban noise all around him. "Only in one place was there any peace. In the west of the city...
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Visiting City People's Garden Store
You know how it is when you've heard a lot of great things about a place from friends and you finally go, expecting to be let down because nothing could be as good as all the hype? That's the...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day July 2013
On the fifteenth of each month, our gracious host, Carol, at May Dreams Gardens hosts one of the longest lasting garden bloggers' memes, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Bloggers are invited to share...
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Foliage Follow Up July 2013
Every month around this time, I head out with my camera to try and capture foliage within a certain category or unifying theme and I come back with totally random images. This month, I was thinking...
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This is My Gaden and it is Dangerous; The Matt Gil sculpture Garden
The second garden we visited on the Garden Bloggers Fling in San Francisco was the Matt Gil Sculpture garden which is mostly situated on a huge cliff, prone to mudslides in heavy rain and directly...
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Visiting Rosedale Gardens in Gig Harbor, WA
About a month ago, Alison, of Bonnie Lassie fame, and I visited Rosedale Gardens which we'd both visited before but not for quite some time. We were greeted by these bronze giraffes towering above...
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A Garden Bloggers Fling Visit to Annie's Annuals Part One; Going to the Chapel.
For those of you who didn't attend the recent garden bloggers' fling and who are following my series of posts about it, we now find ourselves still in day one of the adventure. It's a beautiful sunny...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling Visit to Annie's Annuals Part Two; What a Place!
Have you ever visited a place that you've heard about and ordered from for years only to find that the place just didn't live up to the hype? I was fairly sure that Annie's Annuals couldn't be as...
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The Gig Harbor Garden of Millie and Craig Russell
It's a cool and quiet Saturday morning in Gig Harbor and as the voice of Alison's GPS tells us that we've arrived at our destination, the slight clean fragrance of salt water wafts through the woods...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling - The Wave Gardem
The Wave Garden is a one-third acre private garden on Richmond Point overlooking San Pablo Bay. The owners purchased the property to preclude development. They hired plantswoman Kelle Adams and...
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A Day in Portland Part One
Or, How to visit four nurseries and three gardens in Six hours.I love going on day trips because we don't have to worry about finding care for our pets. One fine Saturday, Alison, Nigel, Tom and I set...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling: The Conservatory of Flowers
In the evening of the first day of the fling, we gathered at The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, for a delicious catered dinner, raffles, and to pick up gift bags full of treasures given...
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A Day in Portland Part Two: Name That Garden!
Do you remember the game show "Name That Tune" from the 1950's? How about the 1970's and 1980's versions? If you're too young to remember or have started to loose the ability to remember, the gist...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling: Visiting The San Francisco botanical Garden at...
One of the optional activities at the San Francisco Garden Bloggers' Fling was a morning photo shoot with Saxon Holt at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. Mr. Holt was friendly,...
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A Day in Portland Part Three: A Garden Party at Longview Ranch
One of our main reasons for going to Portland was that Jane, aka Mulchmaid was planning an open garden for the Portland area bloggers. While Alison and I live in a different state, we're sometimes...
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A Day in Portland Part Four: What's Black and Blue and Orange all over?
Alternate title: Let's visit a cool garden located at the intersection of Plant Lust Lane and Style Street! You may remember this garden from Danger Garden's posts here and here. Loree's posts made...
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Wells Medina Nursery Annual Visit
In the Pacific Northwest, gardeners are spoiled by having so many outstanding nurseries nearby. A fine example of a long established plant purveyor is Wells Medina Nursery "for plant lovers &...
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