It's that time of year when imprudent planting decision make themselves known. Labor Day already, can you believe it? At any rate, I'm editing heck out of the garden. Noting where plants have flopped, too little sun. Or plants are fried, too much sun. Also looking at...
This is nuts. It's been a year of extremes--all over the world, and all in the wrong places. It's rough on a gardener's constitution. Don't you think? I broke down and bought a new sprinkler a few days ago. In my rich fantasy life, I'd imagined a single sprinkler head...
How could I have even considered taking out our apple tree? This is why you shouldn't make big decisions after you first move into a place. Ms. Mulch Maid discouraged me mightily, and I'm glad she did. No matter how determined I was at times to get that tree gone, Ms....
I've previously visited The Oregon Garden only in July, you see a very different place in January. Maybe that's why, in past visits, I'd not noticed the small xeric garden to the left of the formal entrance. It doesn't look newly planted. Even if the Yucca rostrata...
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...
It's been quite exciting, watching new planter boxes go up all around me. For a couple of weeks it seemed every day's dog-walk yielded a new development. Then came the plants, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, strawberries, lettuces, kale...no wonder I'd come home hungry. Now...
Every garden needs some big-ass leaves. Who couldn't use a little big-leaf eye candy to kick off the short work week? Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant' is kicking off the parade up top. The Plume Poppies are really bringing it this year. A Rodgersia podophylla at a garden...
It started with an innocent comment on Facebook. I mentioned I’m running out of space in my garden, and with no big projects this year I wasn’t sure where all the plants I'll have to buy this season were going to go. Grace encouraged me to think about planting in...