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Wednesday Vignette
Tools of the trade. Stored under the eaves of an outbuilding where everything is visible and easy to access. Makes an interesting collage, no? From Fancy Fronds Nursery in Gold Bar, WA. Wednesday...
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Tacky Garden and Greenhouse Project
You perhaps know that my garden has a few mirrors in it. A few weeks ago, one of them fell over and broke because I hadn't affixed it to the fence so a Craigslist search began. No big mirrors for...
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The Concrete Jungle and Random Stuff
There's a house in my neighborhood that I drive by often and find intriguing. It's a nice older home but the fascinating part is the extensive use of urbanite in the yard. Last night I walked over...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day August 2015
It's mid month and time again for garden bloggers' bloom day, an opportunity to document and share what's currently blooming in our gardens. Here are some highlights from my garden todayThe hardy...
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Foliage Follow Up August 2105 - A Day Late Edition
On the sixteenth of each month, Pam at Digging hosts Foliage Follow Up to remind us of the important role foliage plays in our gardens. Flower world had caladiums on sale for a ridiculously low price...
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Soggy Bottom, The Garden of Gretchen and Duncan Blanchard
The Federal Way Symphony garden tour garden number three is called Soggy Bottom"Making the most of a long narrow lot, the Blanchards embraced the shade and privacy offered by mature trees and...
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Wednesday Vignette
Wednesday Vignette is hosted by blogging pal Anna at Flutter and Hum. Click on over there to find links to more W.V's!From the garden of Deborah Cheadle (watch for a full tour soon) comes this mossy...
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Andersen's Italian Escape
The next stop on the Federal Way Symphony Garden Tour was the garden of Donna-Mari and Chuck Andrsen. "Our Italian escape is a mix of formal hedges, framed green 'bowling lawns,' statuesque Italian...
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A Night Visitor
Last night I went out to the back porch to enjoy the evening air, heavy with the fragrance of brugmansia and saw this ghostly white moth hanging out on a curtain. She politely stayed in place long...
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The Colchicum Are Peeking Out of the Ground
As summer is winding down, it's always a treat to see something fresh, new and delicate -looking popping out of the ground! The foliage of Colchicum wakes early in the spring and ripens off by June...
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The Garden of Susan and Guy Pittman Encore
You may remember a previous visit to this garden as I had the pleasure of a private tour in September of last year. Previous post here. This year, it was the seventh garden on the Federal Way Symphony...
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Meanwhile Out in the Greenhouse
Quite a few plants that usually get carted outdoors for the summer stayed in the greenhouse this summer. One of them is a Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi' that usually got plunged into the ground, pot...
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Retail Therapy is the Best Medicine
Between dealing with some health issues that sapped quite a bit of my energy, keeping the garden/greenhouse watered, and garden touring, I realized that it had been weeks since I'd visited a nursery....
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In A Vase On Monday - After the Storm
As children, many of us enjoyed going on nature walks. For me, little has changed in that regard. A walk on the beach or in the woods always yields a pocket full of treasures. Rocks, shells, a few...
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The Unbearable Lightness (Oops, that's Whiteness) of Being
The other day, I was driving home from the grocery store, took a different route and came across this garden that is everything that mine is not. Extremely manicured and with a very limited color...
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Wednesday Vignette
Last night, sitting on the back porch, I noticed this beauty who, back-light, seemed to be glowing gold from within, the simple magic of a porch light at night.A flash revealed the beautiful pattern on...
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Rain, Glorious Rain!
On the heels of our big wind storm came rain, a few days of it. We'd been lucky enough to have a couple rainstorms in August. Add to that this latest rain and the soil is delightfully moist for at...
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The Garden of Pam and Karl Hillsenberg
Our last stop on the Federal Way Symphony Garden Tour was the Hillsenberg garden. The Rhododendron Species Garden and the Pacific Bonsai Museum were also on the tour but having seen them before, we...
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In A Vase On Monday - Summer Souvenirs; A Seedy Post
As our recent windstorm seems to have blown summer away in a single day, (really! Daytime highs went from being in the sunny upper seventies and eighties to being in the wet sixties.) it was time to...
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