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Walking in the Hood
Walking up the street and seeing this parking strip, it's evident that a gardener lives here! The tree closest is an Embothrium coccineum!All the plants are labeled! No one was home but a neighbor...
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Wednesday Vignette
Today's Vignette comes from the beautiful garden of Sherri Wilson. Just a few sweet dahlias floating in the water.Wednesday Vignette is hosted by Anna at Flutter and Hum. Click on over to her blog to...
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Annual Fall Visit to Todd's Nursry
Todd's is a great nursery and only a 30 minute drive from home but for some reason, it falls off my nursery radar until we visit the pumpkin patches on the same road each fall. Every time we visit, I...
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Grocery Store Succulents
Our neighborhood grocery store, Stadium Thriftway, has a great floral department that often has unusual blooms and fun potted plants. Last night, it was a surprise to see these bouquets including...
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A Morning in Seattle Part One; Glass Eye Studio's Fall Sidewalk Sale
Each year in April and October, Glass Eye Studio, a wholesale only creator/importer of cool glass stuff, strews the parking lot of it's production facility with gorgeous glass priced at one half of...
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A Morning in Seattle Part two; Bedrock Industries in their New Digs.
If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you know that Bedrock Industries is one of my favorite places and I seldom go to Seattle without trying to squeeze in a visit. My garden and house are full...
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Wednesday Vignette
My vignette this week comes from Todd's Nursery. A staghorn sumac admiring it's reflection in the water.Wednesday vignette is hosted by Anna at Flutter and Hum. Click on over there to see her...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day October 2015
On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, an opportunity for garden bloggers from around the world to document what's blooming in their gardens each...
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Foliage Follow-Up October 2105
While I love the sweet flowers of Cyclamen, the foliage that follows and persists until early summer is the feature that I love most. Requiring little light and no water all summer, these fill in...
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Who Doesn't Love a Challenge? And Some Questions.
On September, my pal, Loree, who influenced me to start blogging (blame her,) threw down the gauntlet with The 2015 Ornamental Cabbage and Kale Challenge on her fab blog, Danger Garden. Loree is a...
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Fall Migration Is Complete
My goal is to have all of the tender plants moved inside by the first week of November each year so this season I'm a bit ahead of schedule. Hooray, more time to plant bulbs and get the last pots in...
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Wednesday Vignette
October is definitely in full swing with cold nights and the rain for which the Pacific Northwest is so famous. On Sunday, the precipitation was too heavy to be considered mist but too light to be...
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A Morning In Seattle Part 3 Fleur de Lis European Garden Ornaments
If you've been around this area for a while, you might remember when this was called Lucca Statuary. The owners sold and the name was changed to Felur de Lis. They still have a wide selection of cool...
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A Morning in Seattle Part 4; An Unusual Fremont Hell Strip
Have you ever, while riding in a vehicle, seen something that made you yell, "Pull over" to the driver? Of course you have and such was the case with this hell strip in Fremont. It started out...
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In A Vase On Monday Halloween Edition
There may be a little cheating involved here and I'm not sure whether this is a trick or a treat but here's my tasteless offering for Cathy's very tasteful In A Vase on Monday meme. Click here to see...
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A Morning in Seattle Part 5: Urban Earth
Since we were in Fremont anyway, we had to drop in on an old friend who lives at the end of Troll Street.He's very popular. Even on this rainy day there were lots of people politely waiting to have...
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Wednesday Vignette
Two vignettes this week, both from Branches Garden Center which is only eleven minutes from where I work and open until 6:00 p.m. Why hadn't I stopped here before? Look for a full post soon!This gate...
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Branches Garden Center: A First Visit
Yesterday's post featured a couple of pictures from Branches Garden Center in Auburn. Today, we'll take a tour of this gem. Only a ten minute drive from work, I've passed it several times but always...
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Visiting Spooner and Scholz Farms Pumpkin Patches
On a sunny weekend earlier this month, we made our annual visit to the pumpkin patches. Spooner is a larger patch that has all kinds of attractions, a gift shop, numerous food vendors, corn maze, etc....
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In A Vase On Monday
In A Vase On Monday is a weekly blogging meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to encourage us to go into our gardens, gather cuttings or other things we might find, and bring them into the...
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