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In a Vase on Monday - Treasures from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show
There are many outstanding vendors at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show and one of my perennial favorites is Artist & Potter Cindy Jenkins. Just about everything she creates appeals to me and...
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Festival - More Fabulous Vendors
The NWFGF has a lot of great gardens big and small, some great plant vendors, and thrilling art for sale. There was so much to see and admire that it's impossible to share more than a small fraction....
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Wednesday Vignette
Happy Valentine's Day All! My Vignette this Wednesday (Joining host Anna at Flutter and Hum) is a display of primroses from our local everything store and seemed appropriate for today.May your day be...
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February 18 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day on the fifteenth of each month. Click over to her blog to see what's blooming in gardens around the world today. Here's what's happening in...
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February 18 Foliage Follow-Up
Pam at Digging hosts Foliage Follow-up on the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day to remind us of the important role of foliage in our gardens. Join me in wishing this spectacular person, longtime...
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In a Vase on Monday: I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
Recently, my garden blogging pal Alison (Bonney Lassie) gave me this sweet vase she'd purchased at Disneyland. She'd noticed that I seemed a little grumpy about the cold snap predicted (and now...
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A Four-Letter Word Beginning with "S" followed by the "F" word.
That's right, snow. What were you thinking? After our warm January and a cloudy wet Candlemas we all thought that spring was arriving. If Candlemas day be dry and fair, The half o' winter to come...
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Wednesday Vignette - Time for a Garden Party!
This garden party comes from the vintage market at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival. While winter still holds us firmly in it's icy fingers, this kind of garden party will have to do. Only 25...
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A Spring Preview in the Conservatory
As I write this on Wednesday evening, snow is once again flying and there's a powdered-sugar dusting on the grass and trees. The white stuff started about twenty minutes before school was out and more...
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The Two Words Every School Kid Lives For: SNOW DAY!
Teachers, on the other hand, much prefer the words "late start" which the automated phone message announced at five a.m. We'd much rather be at work when it's too miserable to garden outside than on a...
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In A Vase (?) on Monday - Laughing At Winter
You may remember from an earlier post that this happy woman came home with me from the Tacoma Home and Garden Show Vintage Market.Her long neck begged for dangly earrings. Fortunately, there is a...
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Winter Walk-Off 2018
Every year at this time, Les at A Tidewater Gardener hosts "Winter Walk-Off." We are challenged to walk, camera in hand, and capture what we've seen. One can drive to his/her walking location but I...
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Wednesday Vignette
Okay, not really vignettes, just things that made me smile. First, one more reason to love the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival, this sign:I don't know how one would be able to walk around...
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Visiting Nurseries in the Snow
How better to spend an afternoon just before the lowest temperatures of the winter were predicted to arrive than to visit a couple of nurseries? A wiser gardener might have rushed home to throw the...
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A Little Summer Sunshine from Wincdliff
On a chilly late winter day, the memory of a warm July day spent in the garden of a master can be just the thing to take the edge off the cold. Of course, a nice mug of hot chocolate laced with...
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In a Vase on Monday
Sunday morning started out with a hail storm. Fortunately, the storm was over in time for the drive to work and, while the sky remained cloudy during work and the weekly shopping, by the time we got...
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Gardeners, Start Your Shovels, The Plant Sale Season Has Begun!
After a long hiatus, the sun made an appearance last weekend dragging gardeners out of hibernation. We emerged squinting, mole like, at the bright orb in the sky. What was that color up there?...
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Wednesday Vignette
For your convenience, drive up rainbows. Soon we'll never need to leave our cars. Do you suppose either of those vehicles found the pot of gold at the end? Wednesday Vignette is hosted by Anna at...
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More White Stuff.
Saturday was an absolutely beautiful day for gardening but I decided to go to a plant sale and visit nurseries to the north on that day. Sunday morning wasn't bad while I was at work but by the time I...
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Stopping By Wells Medina Nursery In March
I usually visit Wells Medina during the height of the gardening season but have never been there this early in the year before. Since the stock here is mostly displayed outside (there are a couple of...
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