{"id":15205,"date":"2019-07-11T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2024-01-24T07:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:55:38","slug":"denver-garden-bloggers-fling-2019-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/gardens\/denver-garden-bloggers-fling-2019-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Garden Bloggers’ Fling 2019: reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can explain.<\/p>\n

Two Portland garden bloggers talked me into attending the gbfling2019. That’s what those in the know call it. I’m looking at you Danger<\/a> and Just a Girl<\/a>. I will be the first to admit, I’m not a terrific traveler. I like home. But this duo urged me on numerous occasions, plying me with wine and sweet talk: it will be fun; all those new gardens; all those other bloggers. They even enlisted my husband to join the encouragement game. Bill loves to travel–though usually for motorsport<\/a> related events. I’ve learned to stay out of that whole business. When Bill says he’s going to the track for a couple of hours, he means sun up, to sun down.<\/p>\n

The Flingers were kind of like that.<\/p>\n

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The culprits in question, Loree and Heather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Fine. I had a great time, from what I can recall. There was so much to see. We got to go to Panayoti’<\/a>s garden, and he’s been generously sharing his photographs with plant lust for years.<\/p>\n

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Panayoti’s garden–a wild and woolly place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A little back story. Megan, Loree, and I met Panayoti at Burl Mostul’s Rare Plant Research <\/a>(RPR) in Oregon City, OR. We were just getting started with plant lust, in process of enlisting nurseries and sourcing photographs. Anyway, at RPR, we found ourselves in this sea of other crazy gardening enthusiasts, and girl were we excited. It was the first time I met Nancy Buley. Nancy owns a boutique nursery, Treephoria<\/a>, in Boring OR–which is not at all. Boring is a regular hot spot. There’s Boring Bark<\/a>, and Burns Feed Store<\/a>–technically in Damascas nextdoor, and Red Pig Tools<\/a>. I hear Iseli Nursery<\/a> is nearby too, but I haven’t managed to finagle a visit there yet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t