Category Archives: Plant Portraits
bringing it home
Visiting first-rate plant nurseries necessarily involves purchasing plants, or so I’ve always believed — even if the purchaser is thousands of miles from home and has to shove the pots into an already bursting suitcase and then into the cramped … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, creatures, garden travel, garden visit, journal, plant crushes, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged agastache, Alstroemeria isabellana, anemonopsis, Aster souliei, Bellevue Botanical Garden, celmisias, Charles Price, Cistus Nursery, David Lewis, digitalis, Dragonfly Farms, Dunn Gardens, Far Reaches Farm, George Little, Glenn Withey, Lilium regale, Linda Cochran, Little & Lewis, Lobelia tupa, Melianthus major, New Zealand Daisy, Nymphaea 'Ultra Violet', Pacific Northwest, Pelargonium 'Golden Lemon Crispum', perennials, potentilla, Saxifraga stolonifera 'Maroon Beauty', Sean Hogan, Senecio mandraliscae, Senecio serpens, verbascum, Western Hills Nursery
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Joy Creek Nursery
Continuing the posts on my recent visit to Oregon and Washington with some unabashed flower porn courtesy of the display gardens at Joy Creek Nursery, a retail and mail-order nursery in Scappoose, Oregon. (The buddleia might be ‘Evil Ways’) I … Continue reading
Cistus Nursery
The second installment of my recent visit to Oregon and Washington (or How I Mispronounced Botanical Latin for Six Days While Touring Gardens and Nurseries of the Pacific Northwest). My own peculiar zonal filter can’t help but color these posts; … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Araucaria araucana, Bupleurum falcatum, cardoon, Christopher Lloyd, Cistus Nursery, Crambe maritima, Cynara cardunculus, Daphne houttteana, Eryngium latifolium, Eryngium padanifolium, genista, Great Dixter, Kniphofia caulescens, Musa basjoo, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, Sauvie Island, Sean Hogan
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summer 2012 road trip: Pacific Northwest
I find vacations in the Pacific Northwest have a lot in common with Chinese food; after being home for a few days, you’re hungry for another serving of Puget Sound, please. I’m sitting at a table in my garden in … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bulbs, creatures, design, garden travel, garden visit, journal, plant crushes, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Actaea 'Black Negligee', Agastache 'Blue Boa', Agastache 'Summer Glow', Aloe striatula, Aralia cordata 'Sun King', Bupleurum falcatum, Calla 'Edge of Night', Cistus Nursery, Crocosmia 'Twilight Fairy Gold', Dan Heims, Dancing Oaks Nursery, Danger Garden, dierama, Echinacea 'Now Cheesier', Echinacea 'Pink Sapphire', Echinacea 'Secret Lust', echinacea hybrids, Eucomis 'Can-Can', Fatsia japonica 'Spider Web', Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold', Leonard Foltz, Leycesteria formosa, Loree Bohl, McMenamins Kennedy School, Oregon Garden Resort, Plant Lust, Rhus typhina, Sauvie Island, Terra Nova, Tiger Eye Sumac, Yucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies'
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talk to me about the weather
When I was a callow youth, a period of uncertain beginning and dubious ending, if all you could talk about was the weather, you had my sympathy. (Possibly you also had my barely concealed disdain as well as sympathy. I … Continue reading
Posted in edibles, Occasional Daily Weather Report, Plant Portraits, science
Tagged Zea mays 'Tiger Cub'
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Lotus jacobaeus’ nonstop summer concert
a summer garden is a lot like an outdoor jazz concert, the surprising improvisations and unexpected solos. I checked past Bloom Day posts, and this nearly black-flowered lotus started its nonstop performance back in January. This short-lived perennial for zones … Continue reading
salvias, large and small
Two salvias new to my garden, both in bloom this first week of July. Looking at these photos, I can easily imagine a response of: You’re kidding. Those washed-out things? So what? Why I find certain plants appealing is a … Continue reading
crocosmia
Thin stands of crocosmia are what’s left of the formerly generous clumps of fast-thickening cultivars with names like ‘Star of the East,’ ‘Solfatarre,’ ‘George Davidson.’ They pop up now as anonymous singletons in surprising locations every year, always some shade … Continue reading
plant crushes
New plant crushes developed since visiting the Huntington Botanical Gardens on Saturday. For frost-free zones 10-11, from Mexico, South America, Jatropha multifida. Easy from seed, fast growing, drought tolerant shrub or small tree. Spectacular coral flowers give it the common … Continue reading