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A Tapestry of Foliage and Flower.

Posted in Bulbs, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, tagged April blooming flowers, Attractive leaves, colorful foliage, Cyclamen coum, December blooming, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant winter blooming, frangrant flowers, fuschia colored flowers, interesting leaves, January flowering plants, magenta flowers, March blooming, Mauve Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, white flowers, winter blooming, winter flowers, winter garden plants, winter interest on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »

A bright sunny day always induces me in get out of the house and investigate local gardens and other favorite places. One never knows what will be spring up from the rocky crevices here. Bright spots of color are seen in berries that have remained over the winter, the earliest buds of bulbs and other [...]

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An Odd Couple For The Iris Family.

Posted in colorful berries, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, evergreen, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged Algerian Iris, Beacon Hill Park, broadleaved evergreen, colorful berries, December blooming, Early yellow flowers, February flowers, Febuary blooming, fragrant flowers, fragrant winter blooming, frangrant flowers, Gladwyn Iris, Glendale Gardens, Government House, groundcovers, Iris foetidissima, Iris foetidissima 'Variegata', Iris unguicularis, January blooming, January flowering plants, June Blooming Flowers, lavender flowers, March blooming, May Blooming Flowers, North African Plants, orange berries, plum colored flowers, purple flowers, variegated foliage, Variegated Gladwyn Iris, white flowers, winter blooming, winter interest, Winter Iris, yellow flowers on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Another grey week and another plant hunt for something special. Usually I have a list of plants in mind but right now it is hard because some of the plants I wanted to do were damaged by an unusually hard freeze which came in early November last year. At that time many of the plants [...]

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Finding x Ericsmithii.

Posted in Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged broadleaved evergreen, deer resistant plants, Eric Smith, Eric Smith Hellebores, evergreen perennials, February blooming, Finnerty Gardens, Glendale Gardens, Government House, Hellebores, Helleborus argutifolius, Helleborus lividus, Helleborus niger, Helleborus x ericsmithii, hybrid hellebores, January flowering plants, Long blooming plants, March blooming, pink flowers, plantsman Eric Smith, propagator Eric Smith, rabbit resistant plants, white flowers, winter blooming, winter flowers, winter interest on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Although it has been unusually cool and wet already this winter it is surprising how much is going on in the garden right now. Already the buds on many shrubs are stirring and growing larger and I have seen germinated seedlings with their first leaves emerging from places. The earliest blooming plants are starting to [...]

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Now A Completely Different Type of Plant – Moss.

Posted in evergreen, groundcovers, Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, native plants, North American Plants, Ocean exposure Tolerant, West Coast native Plants, tagged all season interest., Dichodontium pellucidum, Dicranum tauricum, Fragile Fork Moss, Government House, green plants, groundcovers, Kindbergia oregona, Lichen, minature plants., moss, mosses, Oregon Beaked Moss, Pixie Lichen, Playfair Park, small plants, Sphagnum, tiny plants, West Coast native Plants, Wet Rock Moss, winter interest on January 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »

The are a few types of plants which can be found just about anywhere on earth. Some are grasses others are very successful annuals which have short life cycles and survive even in hostile climate even if it is for a short while. Others are extremely ancient and where some of the first types of [...]

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2010 in review

Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 46,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]

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