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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day July 2015
July is going way too fast for me. Â Can you believe that it's the 15th, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, again already? Â On the 15th of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts GBBD. Â Thanks Carol! Â Be...
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Begonias for Folliage Follow-Up
On the day after Bloom Day each month, Pam at Digging hosts Foliage Follow Up  to remind us of the importance of foliage in our gardens. Be sure to click over to her blog to find links to FFU posts...
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Visiting Bouquet Banque
Bouquet Banque's plants have been present at quite a few great plant sales so when the opportunity to visit their nursery arose through the NPA Garden Tour schedule, I jumped at the chance to see where...
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The Garden of Matt and Maria Freed
We'll start with the before pictures. After. Quite a change, yes? "As new city dwellers in Everett, w are learning how to garden in small spaces.  Our garden would be described as a small city lot,...
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Justin Galicic's Fourth annual Normandy Park Garden Festival
Justin Galicic is a talented, brilliant, and  energetic plantsman and gardener who blogs here.  For the last four years, Justin and his family have sponsored a garden festival in his awesome garden....
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Wednesday Vignette
From the garden of Karen and Larry Decker comes the spirit of this ancient tree. Or maybe it could be called "Stumped Again."Wednesday Vignette is hosted by my garden blogging pal Anna at Flutter and...
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Revisiting A Blogging Friend's Garden; Tom and Linda Reeder's Paradise
It was three years ago when Alison (Bonney Lassie) and I first visited Linda and Tom's garden on an Northwest Perennial Alliance garden tour (here.) Â When we asked if it was okay to take pictures,...
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Random Friday
 Begonia with saxifrage. New plant Rodgersia 'Bronze Peacock' Love this one but need fo find a place for it. I've been digging bamboo runners which has left some blank spots.  Colorful annuals to the...
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The Garden of Karen and Larry Decker
Question: Â If a garden is tended by two Deckers, does that make it a double Decker garden? (Sincere apologies to Karen and Larry who are undoubtedly tired of this joke.) Alison and I first visited this...
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The Garden of Darcanne and John Nixon
"Large sun-filled corner lot high on Renton Hill. Â Come see how we have rid ourselves of the constant maintenance of a wrap-around Photinia hedge and used the space (and time!) to tend to beds full of...
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Wednesday Vignette
Warm summer evening. Warm red hybiscus.This doesn't usually bloom until the end of August or early September.A warm spring and hotter than usual summer have caused faster-than-usual awakening from...
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Boris and Natasha Send Another Surprise
A while ago, Boris and Natasha's mom, Hoover Boo, who blogs here, asked for my address as she'd found something by the side of the road for my garden. Â Boris and Natasha sent a package last summer as...
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The Garden of Sherril Gerell
On this day when the temperature is predicted to be 92 (33c) in Tacoma, 100 (38c) in Portland, let's visit the  green and restful garden of Sherril Gerell. (high was 65 that day, overcast with a little...
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Visiting PowellsWood Garden
Speaking of garden visiting, I was lucky enough to enjoy the company of California garden blogger and photographer  Gerhard Bock a few weeks ago.  He recently published a very nice post about my garden...
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Dragonfly Farms Nursery - Ave atque vale
On a sad note, another wonderful independent nursery is calling it quits. Â Heidi at Dragonfly Farms Nursery is closing her fab nursery after years of delighting us with great plants, garden art, and...
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Wednesday Vignette: A Striptease Act
Arbutus menziesii also known as Madrona and Arbutus, is one of our most beautiful native trees. Â It's many attributes include evergreen foliage, smooth orange-red colored bark, spring flowers, and red...
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A Pot Story and A Question
For many years I've admired this not for sale pot at Dragonfly Farms Nursery. For some reason, I never photographed it so I stole this image from their website. Anyway, in all my looking, I never found...
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Federal Way Symphony Garden Tour Part One: Last Chance Garden
"This delightful garden could be called 'the Last chance' garden since many of the plants were rescued from half price and bargain tables."Alison looked at google earth shots of this garden and a year...
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The Final Fronderosa Frolic
It  had become a tradition for us on the first weekend of August to pack a lunch and head out on a day trip to Gold Bar, WA to attend the Fronderosa Frolic, a plant sale that had been called the...
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The Garden of George Shriver and Omar Watson
The second garden on the Federal Way Symphony garden tour was that of George and Omar."Welcome to the Shriver/Watson garden. Â You are greeted stret side with a showing of crocosmia and shasta daisies....
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