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My Favorite Plant(s) ...This Week
My favorite plants...this week are three dwarf conifers that came from Lael's Moon Garden, one of the few plant vendors at the Tacoma Home and Garden Show. While I think that miniature gardens are...
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A Northwest Flower and Garden Show Plant Peek
Windmill Nursery in nearby Sumner supplies and or stores plants for some of the designers participating in the NWFG Show each year. Eager to see what we might find in some of the gardens, I sneaked...
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Sometimes You Need a Plant Fix!
Last weekend, Alison, Nigel, and I attended the Tacoma Home and Garden Show about which I posted earlier. We had a lovely time, enjoyed lunch at one of my favorite Indian restaurants, and they visited...
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Another Sneak Peek. Dig!
The amount of planning, ingenuity, and hard work that goes into making the Northwest Flower and Garden Show such a grand experience always amazes me. On Sunday Afternoon, after work, I went to Vashon...
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What's Happening In The Greenhouse?
There it is, hiding behind bit of foliage. Someone should really go out there and do some tidying up.A little closer. Let's see what's going on inside. When Alison visited a couple of weeks ago,...
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Random Friday
Some random shots from the weekend past. First up are a few pictures from Furney's Nursery in Des Moines.Love those Trachycarpus fortunei and dig the great purple foliage on the rhododendrons in the...
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Spring Has Arrived at Molbak's Nursery!
At the main entrance of Molbak's are these large rusty metal sculptures. It's fun to see the displays in the foreground change with the seasons. The rain was pouring so I didn't spend much time...
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A Few Signs of Spring in My Garden
The first of the new crocus planted last fall to show color. The ones that have been in my garden for years are far ahead of these for some reason.Not really a sign of spring but because of the mild...
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Fewer words Wednesday: The Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Following are a few random shots of some of the show gardens at this years show, Romance Blossoms. There is a greater emphasis on floral color this year than in the last few years. There will be more...
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Visiting Timber Press and Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland
The first stops on the 2014 Garden Bloggers' fling in Portland were downtown Portland gems within walking distance of our hotel. First we visited Timber Press where they had, in addition to their many...
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A Small Pot Addiction
It all started a few years ago when I saw cute little tillandsias in tiny terra cotta pots at Dig Nursery on Vashon Island. They were adorable but I didn't buy any and later wished that I had....
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, February 2015
This is the month for Hellebores in this my neck of the woods. Here's Helleborus niger 'Unico'An interesting tidbit about double Hellebores from Wikipedia: "Recent breeding programs have also created...
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Foliage Follow-Up February 2015 - Mystery Yucca and Others
This is possibly my favorite yucca in my garden. It was purchased in a five gallon pot at a nursery that's now been out of business for eight years. (Edgewood Flower Farm.) I'm thinking that it's...
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A Northwest Flower and Garden Show Mystery
One of the display gardens at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show was this beauty called "A Moment to Remember" by Nature Perfect Landscaping which looked like this on Tuesday morning. Notice the...
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Northwest Flower and Garden Show 2015 Blackwaters Metal
One of the vendors that I look forward to seeing at the show is Blackwaters Metal. I'm a fan of both their work and the fact that Bob and Melanie Delaney are always coming up with new designs. See...
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Meanwhile, Back In the Greenhouse...
Back to show posts tomorrow but today I took the camera out to the greenhouse to see what was going on.First, the Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) I got three bulbs just before Christmas at Sky Nursery,...
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show 2015 - A Glass Act
The Pacific Northwest is a hotbed of glass art so it's no surprise that there was a lot of great glass to see at the show. Here, glass fire pit tables from a company in Tacoma are dressed up for...
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In A Vase(?) on Monday; Northwest Flower and Garden Show Floral Competition.
Many garden bloggers participate in a delightful meme called "In A Vase on Monday" sponsored by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. The idea is that one is supposed to pick flowers from his/her garden...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling 2014: Visiting Cistus and Joy Creek Nurseries
One of the many joys of attending the Garden Bloggers' Fling in Portland last summer was seeing gardens that I'd only heard about but wanted to see in person, another was visiting a couple of my...
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Wordless Wednesday - Some Faces from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show 2015
Sun faces are from Inside Out Home and Garden which also does mail order here. Are those expressions funny or what? Ceramic Faces are by Cynthia Jenkins Pottery. I'd admired Cynthia's work for many...
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