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A Day With Alison (The First)
You may be familiar with my friend, Alison, of Bonney Lassie fame. The first Alison in my life is my eldest niece who I don't get to see very often as we live a couple of thousand miles apart. We're...
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Stopping by Tsugawa Nursery
Recently, while driving to Portland to visit my pal and blogging goddess, Loree, I stopped in Woodland to visit Tsugawa Nursery. If you travel Interstate 5 in the Woodland area, you've seen Tsugawa's...
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Wednesday Vignette
Wednesday Vignette is hosted each week by Anna at Flutter and Hum. Click here to see more WV's!Long beds stuffed with a variety of annuals seen outside of Tsugawa Nursery remind me of the way many of...
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With A Sign Like That, What's a Gardener To Do? Visiting Marbott's Nursery.
Last month, the Danger Garden Blog held an Aeonium Challenge. If you missed the details, look here. Surprisingly, my entry won. To see all of the entries, look here.Lust - The eyes of the skull are...
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What's Spiky, green, and Located in Portland?
Danger Garden, Will Robinson.It's always exciting to see in person a garden that one visits via computer on a regular basis. I feel a special fondness for the Danger Garden and it's gardener as it was...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day August 2016
On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Blogger's Bloom Day to help each of us document what's blooming in our gardens mid month and to share our floral bounty with...
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Foliage Follow Up August 2016
It's the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and time to Join Pam at Digging for Foliage Follow-Up, a day to celebrate the important role that foliage plays in our gardens. No particular theme in my...
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Wednesday Vignette: Drama In the Greenhouse
With whitefly, scale, and spider mites all paying visits to the greenhouse this summer, I sometimes feel like as soon as I get rid of one pest, another rears it's ugly head. What's a gardener to do...
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Back to Playing with Danger
To recap, one day, I drove south for a garden play date with my pal Loree. On the way, I visited Tsugawa and Marbott's nurseries and finally made it to the Danger Garden. We had a little time to...
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I Can Do That Nursery in 20 Minutes!
Loree and I had just left Xera and had only a short time before we needed to be back at the Danger Garden. Would we have time to squeeze in one more nursery. Portland Nursery on Starke isn't too far....
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In A Vase On Monday
Fortunately, Abutilon megapotamicum 'Red' has grown quite tall this season; unfortunately, it also leans over a path and parts of it reach out and caress passersby. Okay, it thwacks them in the face....
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We Finally Made it to Cistus
Back on the plant play date with Danger, we left Lila and the Danger Garden to visit Cistus and pick up my aeonium collection prize from the Aeonium Challenge. The collection is so wonderful and in a...
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Wednesday Vignette: Bad Hair Day?
Wednesday Vignette is hosted by Anna and Flutter and Hum. Click here to join in the fun.This building in Barcelona seems to be having a bad hair day. This is what happens if you don't take care of...
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The Issaquah Garden of Art Converse
A warm Saturday in mid July was perfect for touring the garden of Art Converse, whose impressive resume includes a career in the Navy, being a firefighter, and building houses including his own."My...
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The Aeonium Prize from Cistus
It's the last Friday of the month when Danger posts images of plants that have tickled her fancy during the month. I'm featuring the Aeoniums that were waiting for me at Cistus when Danger and I...
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In A Vase On Monday
In A Vase On Monday is hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. Click here to see her Monday creation and find links to those of other participating bloggers.Walking out to the garden center at our...
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One Last Quickie in Portland
Means Nursery is on my way home from Portland and also stays open an hour longer than the other nurseries in the area. Since Loree and I were having so much fun together, we lost track of time and...
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Wednesday Vignette: Heading over to Madrid
Greeting folks at the train station.Aren't they fun? Why, you may ask?We all know that two heads are better than one!Thanks to Tom the traveler for these shots!Wednesday Vignette is hosted by Anna at...
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In A Vase On Monday
In my neighborhood, little surprises often show up in the parking strips, on the steps, just about anywhere. For instance, a hundred or so pieces of some sort of black clay ware showed up earlier this...
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Far Out Fun at Far Reaches Farm Part One
It will come as no surprise to you that I, like all gardeners, love nurseries, garden centers, a plant section at a grocery store. You know, any place that offers the object of plant addiction....
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