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2015 PNW trip day 1-2: Portland, OR
If from yesterday’s post you guessed that we’re headed to the Canadian province of British Columbia, you would be correct. But we’re not there quite yet. Day 1 (really just a half a day) and day 2 were...
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2015 PNW trip day 3: Tacoma, WA
Day 3 of our 2015 Pacific Northwest road trip took us to Tacoma, Washington’s third largest city (after Seattle and Spokane). My personal highlight of our half-day visit was the garden of Peter Herpst,...
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2015 PNW trip day 4: Seattle, WA
Day 4 of our summer trip was spent in Seattle. Even before we left our hotel by the airport we heard about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision ruling in favor of marriage equality. The rainbow flag was...
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2015 PNW trip day 5-6: Vancouver, BC
We’ve been in Vancouver, British Columbia for two days now, and it hasn’t been love at first sight. True, its location is stunning, as you can see below.But the city is very large, very crowded, and...
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2015 PNW trip day 7: Vancouver, BC
My day began with a visit to the University of British Columbia (UBC) Botanical Garden. I got there right at 9:30am when the garden opens and for a few minutes I had fairly even lighting. It didn’t...
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2015 PNW trip day 8: Vancouver to Nanaimo, BC
We ended our three-day stay in Vancouver with a walk among the trees—75 feet above ground. The Greenheart Canopy Walkway at the UBC Botanical Garden (UBCBG) is a series of suspension bridges that...
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2015 PNW trip day 9: Canada Day in Victoria, BC
Today is Canada’s birthday. 148 years ago, on July 1, 1867, the British North America Act turned New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the United Province of Canada into one country called Canada. It...
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2015 PNW trip day 10: Victoria, BC
This morning we visited Butchart Gardens, with close to a million visitors a year one of the most popular public gardens in North America. Located in Brentwood Bay about 15 miles to the northwest of...
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2015 PNW trip day 11-13: Vashon Island to Forks, WA
In my last post we were saying goodbye to Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Early on July 3 we took the ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles, WA and from there headed...
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2015 PNW trip day 14: Forks, WA to Seaside, OR
On most of our trip, daytime temperatures have been in the 90s, with the Pacific Northwest firmly in the throes of a prolonged heat wave. You can imagine how happy we were when the overcast sky that...
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2015 PNW trip day 15: Seaside to Bandon, OR
Before we left Seaside, OR I took a stroll through downtown and along the oceanfront promenade. The public plantings along Broadway Street, the main drag, were remarkably varied. I found quite a few of...
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Butchart Gardens, Victoria, BC
With almost a million visitors a year, Butchart Gardens is the most popular botanical garden in all of North America. Talk to friends and relatives, and you’ll be surprised by how many of them have...
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Agave bulbils—hundreds, maybe thousands of them!
I know you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the next installment in my ongoing saga centering on the Agave desmettiana ‘Variegata’ near our front door. It began to flower about nine months ago....
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Return to the Danger Garden, Portland, OR
Like many of you, I’ve been a long-time reader of Loree Bohl’s blog Danger Garden. During and after the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling, I had the opportunity to visit Loree’s garden in Portland, OR not...
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Why are there dogs and eyeballs in my succulents?
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night with this image fresh in your head:At best you feel uneasy. At worst you're afraid of going back to sleep.Why is it that we find this image so disturbing?...
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Succulent container gardening on a small lot in Portland, OR
On our recent Pacific Northwest road trip I had the opportunity to visit the garden of Doug Norseth and Bruce Hegna in Portland, OR. I’d met up with Doug and Bruce at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut...
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Carpets of duckweed
I know as much about water gardens as I do about growing orchids, but from reading posts on favorite blogs like It’s Not Work, It’s Gardening! and Danger Garden I have at least heard the word...
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Pat Moore’s exuberant garden in Portland, OR
I must admit that I’m stuck in the summer doldrums at the moment. I’m not feeling much motivation to work in the garden, either because it’s too hot or because the garden is in its brown phase—the...
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Love letter to the Outlaw Garden, Tacoma, WA
Can you write a love letter to a garden? I suppose if Robert Burns can compose an address to a haggis, I can create a visual love letter to a garden I visited on our Pacific Northwest trip last month....
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Pictures from a long, hot summer
I posted this screenshot from Weather Underground on Succulents and More’s Facebook page the other day:For a number of days now we’ve had temperatures above 100°F (38°F) and a few about 104°F (40°F)....
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