New York Botanical Garden
Apparently there is a theme to my sight-seeing when traveling and it involves lots of plants. What a shocker! I […]
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design, garden, plants, travelingWashington DC Botanical Gardens
Our trip to Washington DC was relatively short, allowing ample time to visit Mount Vernon the first day and one
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design, plants, travelingEarly Flowering Plants: Part II
Last week I wrote the first part of this post on early flowering plants here in the Pacific Northwest. There
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design, flowers, plants, schoolEarly Flowering Plants: Part I
Another term of tromping around in the rain for my Plants class has passed, and sadly so. The Plants sequence
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design, flowers, plants, schoolProblem Solver: Evergreen Huckleberry
Planning and planting typically keeps my mind on the garden even in winter. As I have learned, it can take
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design, food forest, plantsProblem Solver: Salal
Salal is one of those Northwest natives that I have often heard people talk, but have never been familiar with
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plants, schoolPlants Class
No matter what we do for our day job, I think it’s safe to assume we are “plant people”. We
Divide and Conquer
It’s been quite rainy here in Portland, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to capitalize on frugality in the
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food forest, frugal, plantsMay Plantings
A big highlight from this weekend was spending the day with my sweet nephew, Evan, on Saturday. Evan, Jay and
The Fig Tree That Could
It all started at the Horse Brass… Jay and I were sitting around a table of friends the other night
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food forest, garden, trees