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...
For pros and those of you with big landscaping projects, this is our current listing of plants available in large quantities. We have listed plants with 50 or more available, along with their sizes in this handy cheat sheet for convenient skimming. You can also head...
I swore I wasn't going to buy any new plants before I had my garden weeded, composted, and rearranged. Hahahaha. Turns out that wasn't true, and it never has been. Bloggers from our area were recently invited to Little Prince of Oregon for a shopping spree. All bets...
Plants surprise me every time. I know they grow and all, but holy moly, the lengths to which they go. When we removed our 12' x 40' section of mass planted juniper, I didn't have an exact plan. Except for the little lower bed which spoke to me right away: Sedum...
I love giving gifts to gardeners. They can be so easy to please, as long as you know a little about their style. Miniature roses for the cactus lover would be a miss (but the cactus called miniature desert rose could do the trick). But when you're talking about people...
The big winter weather joke around the Pacific Northwest is a forecast calling for "snow on the valley floor." That's the Willamette Valley we talking about, and we hardly ever get snow, at least on the northern end. Those of us who grew up here are always rooting for...
Last week, I was not on top of my plant identity game. I wish to rectify that problem post haste, if you don't count the week I waited to do it. And now that I've got it straight, I feel it's only fair to tell you: Scleranthus uniflorus is a terrific groundcover, and...
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...
I'm hearing a lot of grumbling over how awful our gardens are looking. I share your grumblings. So I thought I'd go on patrol for things that aren't entirely terrible. Have you noticed how a tight shot shows what you might otherwise have missed? I wholeheartedly...
Just a bit over a year ago, I had the vision of someday removing the giant swath of Juniper we inherited with our Flamingo Park House. The "Sea of Juniper" was some 12' wide and 40' long. Apparently, back in the 60s and 70s, people got the notion that mass planting...