When I said yesterday that I was grounded from buying more plants until I got the ones I already had in the ground, that excluded something perfect and just exactly what I need. I found two fairly large, fairly inexpensive, glossy leafed evergreens that exactly fit some bare spots from where I removed some [...]
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File: September 2008
Before the weather got all 90 degrees on us this weekend, I got to a few of my planting chores, but I still have enough of a backup of unplanted things from last weekend’s HPSO plant sale that I skipped this weekend’s Berry Botanical Garden plant sale. I’m grounding myself from buying anything more [...]
I was in the garden, some things looked good, some things didn’t, I moved some stuff around and made things better, blah, blah, blah. I will go into that later. But when I headed in to hit the shower to get halfway presentable so we could go out to dinner, I looked out [...]
Sometimes I’m in denial about what conditions I can offer, or I hope I can fake it enough to make something work. This Aeonium ‘Salad Bowl’ didn’t let me get away with it this year. I brought it home on May 17th looking like this.
I potted it, and moved it around the patio [...]
Getting further into my boxes from the plant sale, I found the smallest and best of my buys. Little pinellia cordata, that I’ve been after since I learned it existed this summer. It’s only 6″ tall, and I love love love everything about it. I can’t decide if the leaves or the [...]
Across the street from my mom’s house, there’s a woman slowly but surely removing her grass and replacing it with precisely placed plantings dotting the parking strip in a style that is all her own. I like the way each of the plants is treated democratically, with its own space, but I would never [...]
I did okay at the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon’s plant sale this weekend, I mostly came away with stuff I knew I needed, and only a few things that leave me wondering what I was thinking. I got a handful of the newcomers planted before running off to talk to neighbors, and then, [...]
It’s time to warm up the credit card and compile all of my lists from cocktail napkins so I can hit the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon’s Fall Plant Sale today and tomorrow. This spring I won at the sale buy buying more than anyone else. Today I don’t plan to win, but [...]
I love trees beyond reason, and the sound of a chain saw firing up in the neighborhood is cause for alarm, but I’ve got some hard tree decisions ahead of me. Some bad tree situations came with the house, and some I created on my own. I inherited a previous owner’s [...]
I’m obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the tetrapanax this year, and I’m afraid it’s not going to get any better next year, if it does what it should. I’ve read that it spreads easily, especially if you dig around the base, and I have been weeding around there. I started plucking [...]