Categories: garden, Garden Destinations
… I’ve killed more plants than you have. Really! As I write this my garden is encased in snow and ice. Unfortunately, so are the many succulents and the world’s most-beleaguered lemon tree. Not a day has gone by in the past 2 months that I haven’t told myself to move said plants indoors. Alas. The [...]
Categories: Friends & Commrades, Garden Destinations, Road Trip
Yes, I know gas tops $4 a gallon(!) And Pullman, Wa is a long ways from… well, most places. But it’s time to fill the tank and point your ride toward Eastern Washington. ROAD TRIP! I promise it’ll be worth your time and investment. Join Debra Prinzing, Maryann Newcomer (MA to those of us who [...]
Categories: garden, Garden Destinations, Road Trip
You are SOOOOO going to want to catch this plant sale. I know; a bold statement here in the Pacific Northwest, land of wall-to-wall spring time plant sales. But check out this line up of local nurseries that will be on hand offering plants: Hardy Fern Foundation Sundquist Nursery Far Reaches Farms Naylor Creek Nursery [...]
Categories: Design, Garden Destinations, Road Trip
Giant dead tree in the middle of your proposed garden site? No problem! At least not if you’re Claude Cormier. New life was given to a diseased tree slated for removal by decking its branches with 75,000 retrofitted sky-blue Christmas balls. The landscape equivalent of a Photoshop eraser saturated this natural tree with the artificial [...]
Categories: Community, Garden Destinations, Navel Gazing, Road Trip
Tomorrow morning I’m taking the train to Portland. A relatively quiet weekend out of town sounds pretty good about now. I’ll be handing in my edited and proofed manuscript to my publisher (!!!) and taking in the Yard Garden & Patio show, a quieter, gentler garden gathering than next weeks’ Northwest Flower & Garden Show. [...]
Categories: Community, Garden Destinations, Road Trip
This past weekend I was lucky enough to get away from gray February skies and rain for a quick trip to sunny and warm San Diego. I am a board member of the Pacific Horticulture Society, an unique, non-profit organization which hosts a variety of events, lectures and educational opportunities including regional symposia and travel [...]
Categories: Edibles, Friends & Commrades, Garden Destinations
It’s Groundhog’s Day 2011 and Punxsutawny Phil has forecast an early Spring! Tell that to the unfortunate 100 million (!!!) folks suffering the impact of one of our country’s largest winter storms…EVER! I find weather endlessly fascinating and a never-ending source of amusement. Think of the implication of it’s absence? …weather that is. Of course [...]
Categories: Edibles, garden, Garden Destinations, Road Trip
Garden show season commences this week (yippee!!!) with the Tacoma Home & Garden Show running January 36-30, 2011 at the Tacoma Dome. You can catch my talk “the Kitchen Garden & the Gardening Kitchen” on Wednesday (1/26) at 4 pm; Saturday (1/29) at noon or Sunday (1/30) at noon, in the Green Theater. You’ll come [...]
Categories: Friends & Commrades, garden, Garden Destinations
How am I supposed to concentrate on prepping for Christmas – secret shopping, candy-making, light stringing, bulb forcing and decking those cursed halls – when I keep remembering that the Northwest Flower & Garden Show is right around the corner!!?! OK, so it’s not exactly riiiiight around the corner – this year’s show runs February [...]
Categories: Community, Garden Destinations
Some gardens are so delicious you just want to swallow them whole. Tina Dixon’s landscape is one of those…and she’s a got a giant fork in it to feed you her lush, beautifully planted and artfully composed plantings. In just a few short weeks, Dixon and her husband, Paul Stredwick are opening their fabulous garden [...]