If you're like me it's that time of year when you're kicking yourself for not having more hellebores in your garden. What's wrong with me? Am I outta my ever loving mind? I'm also kicking myself for not having visited the annual open garden of Ernie & Marietta...
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Garden design help just in time with Design Your Eden!
Has your garden planning reached a fever pitch like mine has? I’m manic over here. This morning I woke up too early because I was thinking about the 6 Shooter Sweet Corn I’m going to grow this Summer and what should the 3 Sisters in my corn-planting-triad be?...
holiday cheers from plant lust
Eriobotrya japonica aka Loquat
Winter Greenery
Winter doesn't have to be a barren time. With some planning you can create an appearance of lushness in the garden with an abundance of winter greenery to enjoy outdoors and indoors. Well-behaved Ivy and relatives People get a bit nervous about planting...
Spring Scheming–Unusual flower bulbs from Secret Garden Growers
Planting now for Spring feels like money in the bank. Read on for 6 unusual Spring flower bulbs that are true treasures from Secret Garden Growers nursery: Honey Garlic Allium siculum sends up spires topped with pendulous flowers in dusty shades of mauve...
Playing favorites with Little Prince of Oregon
Little Prince of Oregon Nursery always has something to inspire plant lust. Here is a selection of some new and old crushes. Oddities and rarities: Alocasia 'Red Secret' First up on my list of plants making me swoon is Red Jewel Alocasia. Ooh la la. Alocasia 'Red...
Photo Shoot: A Fall Field Trip to Cistus Plant Nursery
As always there was much to inspire at a recent and wet visit to Cistus. Entering this world-famous Oregon nursery that I am so lucky to have regular access to really does give me the overwhelming feeling of being a kid in a candy store. It's hard to know where to...
Halloween Cheers 2023
Boo, y'all.
13 plants for a Goth Garden
From bats to spiders to ghosts, read on as we shine a light on our top 13 strange and dark plant selections for goth gardens. And to be honest, most of these plants are less Miss Havisham's macabre garden and more sophisticated plant collector, in case that's not your...
Making Mums Cool
I’ve long had mixed feelings about mums that suddenly pop up at grocery stores in the Fall, looking like outsize flower mushrooms. I’ve tried not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but they're just so loud and unnatural looking. However, a few years ago I happened upon some...