Last weekend I went out to gaze at all the leaves I really should be raking, and found Brugmansia whiskers had put on a fresh new flush of huge leaves, and was positively dripping with newly opened flowers. Really, we have it so good here in Portland, it’s practically November, and summer is still [...]
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File: October 2009
In honor of the approaching holiday, may I submit this as the scariest thing I’ve seen in a while? Pretty, though. If it doesn’t take over the city, I like the looks of it here as a single specimen planting. I grow it, but only in a pot with no drainage hole for it to [...]
I headed out to the Leach Botanical Garden last weekend, hoping to catch my favorite katsura in the process of turning gold and releasing the fragrance of burnt sugar, but I was a little late, the leaves had mostly dropped already. It was perfect timing for little jewels – further proof that the party isn’t [...]
Busy times have hit here, so it’s a good time to find a blogging platform that makes posting super quick and easy. I started out setting up a new site as an experiment for work, but I like it so much I’m keeping it. It doesn’t change nest maker at all, it’s just a new [...]
The Chinese Garden plant sale this weekend was a subdued affair, just a few different kinds of plants, nothing in the selection was heart stopping or on my wish list. But the bargains were good enough to weep over. For instance, there was quite a commotion and some quick claiming of trees going on when [...]
For Portland gardeners, one of my favorite plant sales of the year is happening this weekend, the Chinese Garden fall plant sale. It isn’t a huge sale, but their selections are always top notch and not commonly found elsewhere. I love how this sale is run. We’ve all been to the sales where you have [...]
Last week I mentioned my self imposed gardening rule, big leaves must make an appearance at regular intervals in my garden. I consider any leaf bigger than a hand a good candidate. I think of them as punctuation in what would otherwise be a run on sentence in a garden with only small leaf texture. [...]
When I was looking for the house with the tall tetrapanax last weekend, I rounded the corner and found a new parking strip garden. It’s a happy trend, to see lawns coming out, tough, drought tolerant plants going in. No fussy resource hog plants here.
I like the beautiful sculptural driftwood. Even though I’m usually a [...]
I’ve been spying on the neighbors. Can you blame me? Look at the size of those tetrapanax. Now THAT’S a proper big leaf.
Holy monster perennial, that’s a good sized plant! Tetrapanax in the fancy part of town, suckering and spreading, true to their reputation. I say, more plant to love.
Not quite as big, but still [...]
I forgot how sorry the garden was looking back at the end of April. I was at the time taking a picture of the color of the tree leaves, the Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ on the right, and the Acer Negundo on the left, how good they looked together when the rain weighed the branches down [...]