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Garden Bloggers' Fling Visit to Sunset Headquarters
Sunset is a hundred-year-old publisher of Sunset Magazine which began as a publication promoting the beauty of California to mostly Midwestern readership. Over time, Sunset Magazine has become a...
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Touring Sondra Shira's Garden
As we approached Sondra's garden, it looked very nice , organized and well behaved.  A little further up the driveway, there were a few clues like this creative use of ceramic roof tiles, that this...
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A Couple of Exciting Things in My Own Garden
 You may remember my previous posts about Solanum quitoense. Just before the Fling at the end of June, my decision about whether or not I should pick and try one of the gorgeous orange fruits adorning...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling Visiting Filoli part one: The Gardens.
No garden centric to central California would be complete without a visit to Filoli, a country house set in 16 acres of formal gardens surrounded by a 654 acre estate. I'd heard about Filoli for years...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling: Filoli part two, the House
 The day we visited Filoli, the temperature reached a little over a hundred degrees. Fortunately, the inside of the grand old home was relatively cool!Another map to help you make sense of the...
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Garden Bloggers' Fling; The Testa-Vought Garden
After leaving Filoli, we next visited the Testa-Vought Garden designed by Bernard Trainor. In contrast to the century-old formal estate garden where plants are clipped and provide additional...
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A Quick Stop at Furney's Nusery
On one of those glorious Saturdays with Alison, we had a little time to visit Furney's Nursery before meeting Nigel for dinner. I've posted here and here about previous visits.   The large pots of...
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Flinging in Rebecca Sweet's Garden
Rebecca Sweet's Garden was the last we visited on day two of the fling. Seeing citrus growing on trees is always as thrilling to me as it was the first time I experienced it 30 years ago. It seems so...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, August 2013
Here are a few blooms from my garden that caught my eye:Impatiens niamniamensis ‘Congo Cockatoo’The dreaded Impatiens glandulifera. The same wearing light pink.Impatiens balfourii, another weedy one...
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Foliage Follow Up August 2013
Foliage follow up is hosted by Pam Penick at Digging to celebrate the beauty and importance of foliage in our gardens. Do click on over to her blog to find interesting foliage in gardens all over the...
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Visiting The Barn
On a recent garden day of garden touring in the Olympia area, Alison and I stopped at The Barn Nursery. Alison visited once before and posted about it here but I'd never had the pleasure....
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A Luddite's Last Stand
I once had a cell phone several years ago (long story but I got it by default, not by choice.)  but so seldom used it that I had it disconnected. Really, why pay a monthly fee for nothing? Instead, I...
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The Garden of Tia Scarce
Another Northwest Perennial Alliance Tour Saturday with Alison found us touring the Kirlkand garden if Tia Scarce. A relatively young garden (started in 2006) the Scarce garden had lots of wonderful...
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A Saturday without Alison
Is like a day without sunshine. Thank you Orange Juice Council, your writers did a much better job than those responsible for hiring spokesmen. (Anita Bryant, OJ Simpson)So, on the first Saturday for...
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So Then the Car Said...
"You know, Valley Nursery is only thirty minutes away, let's go there." Leaving this delicious pot ad Elandan, the car left the parking lot and sped off toward Poulsbo. (Previous posts here.)It's...
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Billardiera longiflora, My Favorite Plant in the Garden (this week.)
My favorite plant in my garden for the last few days has been Billardiera longiflora, a sweet vine native to Tasmania and NWW, Australia. Earlier in the season, it has nice little buttery yellow...
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The Garden of Trang Tu
Back on the Northwest Perennial Alliance open garden tour trail with Alison back in July, we had the pleasure of visiting the garden of Trang Tu. One of the many things that the organizers of the...
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I Went to a Garden Party!
A few weeks ago, the arrival in the mail of an invitation to a garden party didn't come as a surprise because my friend and glass mentor, Florence, had been excited about party planning for weeks. Not...
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Frolicing at Fancy Fronds Nursery
Each year for the last 13 or so, Judith Jones, owner of Fancy Fronds Nursery, hosts the Fronderosa Frolic. What is a Fronderosa Frolic? “Fronderosa Frolic is a celebration of plants and summer…that...
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A Friday Quickie Raw and Uncensored
Busy, busy, busy time of the year for me so today here's a few uncensored pictures through my dirty kitchen window of part of my neglected garden. (Long boring story but the nice thing about gardens...
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