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Working with what you've got
One of the best things about gardening is that everyone enjoys it for different reasons. Some love the precision of clipped hedges and perfect roses, others may delight in bringing the wild to them and...
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Sprinter
Arctostaphylos silvicola 'Ghostly', against the warm south end of the house.No, I'm not talking about someone who runs quickly over short distances. I'm talking about that peculiar intergrade between...
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Bamboo
Verdant green leaves flutter in the breeze on gracefully swaying stems, uttering a million soft whispers that build together into waves on a shoreline. Sound, motion, and color combine in almost...
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Speaking of the trees
I've always loved trees. As a child, I spent hours and hours climbing vine maples, beaked hazelnuts, bigleaf maples, cedars, and any other tree I could climb. Walking through forests, even to this day,...
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Bamboo: pruning clumping bamboos
If running bamboos are too aggressive or intimidating, clumping types may be a good way to bring the beauty and utility of bamboo into your garden. Thanks to the structure of their rhizomes, they...
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Fargesia scabrida
Fargesiascabrida'Silver Dragon' is a selection found at Bamboo Garden Nursery in Oregon. with lightly variegated foliage, most apparent in spring and fading in summer. Photo taken at Bamboo Garden...
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Doing the Garden Shuffle
Brace yourselves for a tangled look into the thought processes of a gardener. I'm sure it will look familiar to many of you, no matter what kinds of plants you grow. We all shuffle things around,...
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New boos on the block
Time for a new plant parade! I acquired quite a few new bamboo species in trade last week and am so excited, it motived me to finally write a post! I got these in trade with Ian Barclay at The Desert...
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Bamboo Identity Crisis
A friend gave me a bamboo to test, sold under the name Yushania confusa. This modestly sized plant is said to reach a maximum height of 6 feet, growing from a base only 2-3 feet wide, and arching up...
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Where did the new boos go?
At the beginning of last month, I wrote about seven new bamboos I had just acquired. After several weeks in quarantine and a couple rounds of neem oil and miticide (just to be sure they were free of...
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The trials of dry shade
Gaultheriamucronata and Luzulasylvatica, 2 plants that are actually succeeding in this tough area.I have a long border at one edge of the garden, sitting between the lush shade garden area where the...
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My Garden is in a Book!
Ehem. Testing. One two, one two. This thing still work? Oh, hi. As you might have guessed from the title, I have some rather exciting news. I've been keeping a lid on this for about 2 years now, but...
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Wide shots
It's been quite some time since I shared wide views of the garden, or much of anything, really, so I thought I'd finally rectify that. Before I get into recent photos, here's a link to a post I did in...
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