Creating Naturalistic Bulb Designs
I made a late trip out to Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm last fall to buy Leucojum aestivum (Summer Snowflake), but also succumbed to the other beautiful bulbs they still had […]
I made a late trip out to Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm last fall to buy Leucojum aestivum (Summer Snowflake), but also succumbed to the other beautiful bulbs they still had […]
Saturday, September 25, 11am-4pm — “Green on Green” Garden Tour benefiting the Portland Reading Foundation. Tickets are $20 and are available online and at Portland Nursery-Stark Street, GardenFever!, Oxalis, Market […]
I like peeking into other people’s gardens so when my co-worker Whitney Rideout (you know her as Gardenia nutii) sent me a link to a collection of the world’s most […]
Photo courtesy of Portland Nursery I had time to work in the garden last week and noticed that I have several species of plants—rhododendron, salal, and bergenia—with notched […]
Late October last year, I was taking Barney (my adorable golden retriever) for his morning walk when I noticed a Gaillardia putting out blooms as if it was still August. […]
Editor’s Note: This is Part II of a series on nurseries participating in the Climate Friendly Nurseries Project launched August 2009. To read Part I, click here. Take one plant—say, […]
Moana Nursery, a wholesale nursery in Canby, Ore., found what they believe are 13 quail eggs tucked inside a container spruce tree. The nursery will happily leave the eggs to […]
By Gardennia nutii What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878 I’d like to introduce you to […]
By Trillium Dollars A flash of harmless lightning,A mist of rainbow dyes,The burnished sunbeams brighteningFrom flower to flower he flies.By John Banister Tabb The tiny sweet-hunters chirrr, chase and dive […]
I look out at this part of my garden every morning. In summer, the light streams through the tall trees that surround my yard and filters into this part of […]