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Category Archives: Gardening and Landscaping
Humbled by a warm body in a cold world
As life and work has commanded most of my attention for the last few months, it’s been a while since I had a chance to write. But the other day, I saw the most astounding thing that made me marvel … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening and Landscaping
Tagged aspiring, bird, feeder, garden, hummingbird, ice storm, imitating, snow, winter
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A stroll through the Lan Su Garden
The Lan Su Garden is a true gem in our city. It is a garden the size of a city block, which was built as a collaboration between Portland and its sister city Suzhou in the Jiangsu province in China. … Continue reading
Posted in Cool plants, Gardening and Landscaping, Local interest, On Design
Tagged chinese, details, garden, Lan Su, mosaic, paving, plant vignettes, poetry, stone
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Fall foliage, berries, and a few blooms too…
How I could completely miss both October Bloom Day and Foliage Follow-up is beyond my comprehension. When I finally realized it, and wandered out back to survey the garden, I realized I had indeed missed a bunch of things out … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, Cool plants, Foliage Follow-Up, Gardening and Landscaping
Tagged autumn, Bloom Day, Color, fall, flowers, foliage, Foliage Follow-up, garden, Green, red
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Going gaga over green flowers
The delight of the out-of-the-blue, sudden blossoming of one of my cacti a few weeks ago – for the first time in seven years! – carried with it another surprise… The flowers were green! How cool! Their obvious oddball appeal … Continue reading
Posted in Color, Cool plants, Gardening and Landscaping, Just for fun
Tagged Anna Pavord, bulbs, Green, green flowers, phyllody, Plants, unusual
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If you can’t plant a tree, plant a rain garden!
As our world is warming, more and more water evaporates. And, as we all learned in physics class, what goes up must sooner or later come down. As Portland is bracing for at least a week of more or less … Continue reading
Garden tidings, September 2013
Did you know that over 50 of the world’s 165, or so, species of lupine can be found here in the Pacific Northwest? Well, I didn’t either, until quite recently. I love seeing the blue expanses of it covering the … Continue reading
Veni vedi WeHoP – part 3 – fabulous plants, color, and texture
While the previous two posts about our awesome adventure focused more on overall shots and a chronological narrative of our trip, I figured I’d cram a few more photos into a final post on the matter. It was such a … Continue reading
Posted in Cool plants, Gardening and Landscaping, Uncategorized
Tagged Color, combos, flowers, foliage, garden, landscape, Pacific Northwest, Plants, texture
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Veni, vidi, WeHoP – a glorious garden geek adventure – part 2
We got out of our cars less than a minute after we left Heronswood, stretched our travel weary limbs, and began exploring the offerings of Celestial Dream Gardens. But, alas, we got distracted! A few yards after getting back on … Continue reading
Veni, vidi, WeHoP – a glorious garden geek adventure – part 1
It started with an invitation to visit WeHoP – Western Horticultural Products – a Pacific Northwest plant broker that tests and experiments with an enormous variety of plants to determine their suitability for the PNW climate, and then supplies them … Continue reading
Posted in Cool plants, Gardening and Landscaping, Just for fun, Nice People
Tagged garden, Heronswood, Kitsap peninsula, landscaping, Plants, road trip, Valley Nursery, WeHoP
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The Creative Flux 