Remember last week when I said this week I'd continue with part II. Well, I'm to hell and gone from Cartagena. We'd been waiting on our contractor for a patio project, then suddenly the crew touched down. They're making terrific progress, and we love it. (More on that...
As some of you may have read in Patricia's last post I recently stumbled upon a treasure trove of Echium candicans at Garden Fever. I was just walking along admiring the flowers and other offerings when bam! I'm suddenly confronted with beautiful variegation, what's a...
I've got it. How about you? What's are you pining for? My problem is remembering what I want in the face of so many temptations when I actually do make it to the nursery. I'm dazzled by the abundance. And, of course, the pesky brain injury, blah blah, no help there...
Think back to the first time you saw a Hamamelis (witch-hazel) in bloom. Did you think "wow, that's beautiful!" or were your thoughts more along the lines of "what's that freaky thing?" Don't get me wrong, I love them, but they are rather bizarre, like colorful...
It's an event when it snows around Portland, Oregon. Most of us don't know how to drive in snow. And the city is not all that well equipped to keep things running smoothly, though they give it the ole college try. And they provide fair warning: If you choose to drive,...
I can't tell you how many times people have gone gaga over the lowest priced plant in the garden. Isn't it funny, how you can moon over some rare and expensive plant. And then you finally add it--just to have peeps push past to rave about some inexpensive annual...
Oh sure, there's a lot going wrong with this dog-forsaken weather. But there's also quite a bit going right. So today, I'm looking at the garden as half full. (Even if all the rage is warning us we're due for a 9.2 earthquake that will swallow up 700 miles of the...
I really meant to draw up a blueprint for Flamingo Park Gardens, develop a strategy, make a definite plan—on paper. And if wishes were horses… I seem to be buying plants, quite a few plants, and working the “plan” outward from there. Oh, I can hear professional garden...