Our love affair is over. It started out intense, as these things do – pure powerful lust. There was that brief moment I thought we’d made a connection. Only to have another steal you – right before my eyes. Then finally it happened, you were mine and it was just as...
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...
When I started my post last week, I meant to write about a trip to Cistus Nursery with Loree, intrepid Mistress of Danger Garden. But once I got on that Highway, there were so many other fascinating places to visit--at least in my fanciful imagination. So back to the...
Walking back to the hotel our first day in San Diego I spotted a tree that stopped me in my tracks. Instant plant lust! Never mind that I had no idea what I was lusting after. As I’ve written before travel induced plant lust is a malady I frequently suffer from....
A couple weeks ago I wrote: “my garden is finally a place where I find myself winter engaged.” Today I thought I'd focus on a few of those plants, the ones that keep me sane through the winter. Key plants that look good, individual things that I can concentrate on. A...
A recent neighborhood walk led me to this fabulous garden in the making. I love it when a garden matches its building. It's an excellent sign of things to come that the garden looks this good during the winter while the plants are young. This is going to be a year...
One of our primary goals at plant lust is to support the fabulous independent and specialty nurseries which grow (as well as discover and then propagate/or breed) the plants we lust after. While you can always peruse their offerings on our website a visit to the...