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Willow Tree Gardens and Interiors
I always visit Willow Tree Gardens and Interiors' Christmas open house when the entire space is transformed into a wonderland of decorations. Not far from home, this is a fun nursery to find both...
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In a Vase on Monday - June Pruning
The contents of today's vase were all cut back to keep the stop sign at the corner visible or to keep paths passable. Sweet little very fragrant rose whose name has been lost. Weigela 'Rubies N' Gold'...
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Surprises in the Greenhouse
Sometimes things get a bit busy and I don't see the inside of the greenhouse for a few days. At this time of year, things are happening quickly and there are usually some surprises to be found after a...
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Wednesday Vignette - Almost and a Color Combination Not to Try.
Wednesday Vignette is hosted by Anna at Flutter and Hum. Click here to see what's captured the attention of other bloggers this week. A succession of several chickadees flew down from the Contorted...
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We Needed Something at a Hardware Store
Funny, I don't even remember what it was we needed but it was on this trip to our local McLendon Hardware that I found the stove pipe planter and a couple of 18 inch ceramic spheres with fire-engine...
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Another Mystery Garden
I've enjoyed passing this garden in Fife every day for the last 20 years. It's on a road that once ran through the middle of growing fields which are rapidly being replaced by apartment buildings and...
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In a Vase on Monday - Bamboozled
Ah, floriferous June with so many choices for a vase. It's also prime bamboo shooting season and every stroll in the garden includes snapping, kicking. and cutting bamboo culms coming up where they're...
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A Few New Additions to the Hoard
Here are some of the more interesting plants that have made their way into the collection recently. I had the pleasure of visiting the Danger Garden in mid May and saw Loree's gorgeous specimens of...
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Wednesday Vignette - Sometimes You Get Lucky
On Saturday, we drove up to Sorticulture in Everett. We drove through several heavy rain showers and even thought of stopping on the way to buy a raincoat or umbrella. as Sorticulture is an outdoor...
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The Smith Display Garden at Sunnyside Nursery
On Saturday, the day of getting lucky, I discovered Sunnyside Nursery in Marysville. A separate post about the nursery will come later but today, let's take stroll through the Smith Display Garden...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day June 2018
On the fifteenth day of the month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, a way to both share what's blooming in our gardens each month and to keep a journal from year to year....
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In a Vase on Monday - Cindy Jenkins and Summer Strike Again
At the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in February, this painting done by artist and potter Cindy Jenkins brought memories of summers past and another that was still so far away. Time passes so...
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Miniature Gardens from Sorticulture
Sorticulture in Everett is my favorite garden festival of the year (so far) It's outside in a beautiful park full of wonderful old trees , there's live entertainment, plant vendors with outstanding...
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Wednesday Vignette - Texture
Walking through the park yesterday afternoon the bark of of an old Populus x canadensis caught my eye. Over a hundred years of life in a city park through storms and fair days has caused the bark to...
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So, What's Happening Here?
You may remember my posts (here and here) about the demolition of the Tacoma's Scottish Rite Masonic Cathedral. The fence was erected and the demolition carried out in short order of the sale and...
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Discovering Sunnyside Nursery
After attending Sorticulture, Everett's garden arts festival a couple of weekends ago, I decided to ask the lady in the phone if there were any new-to-me nurseries in the area and up popped Sunnyside...
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In a Vase on Monday - Just One Flower
Late June is probably not the best time to prune things but it's when time allows so it's when it gets done. I'm an outlaw after all. Much as I enjoy having a sizable Calycanthus chinensis shrub, it...
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Sorticulture Part 1: Plants and Petals
Ah, Sorticulture, a garden art festival in a beautiful park on a sunny day, sweet fragrance of Linden trees in bloom wafting through the air, live music, and garden art everywhere. Who could ask for...
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Wednesday Vignette: Six Years Ago Today
For today's Wednesday Vignette hosted by Anna at Flutter and Hum, here are the three pictures of my garden that comprised my first blog post six years ago today followed by views from similar vantage...
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A New Flower
Yesterday, I celebrated my first day of summer break by spending dawn to dusk working in the garden. What's disappointing is that one really can't tell. So many are the layers that the removal of a...
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