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A Gardener Comes to Terms with Violet
Violet gets a beating from modern garden designers who label it stodgy, depressing, and even dead.
Gardening with Backyard Bees
Our backyard beekeeping experiment has been an enlivening challenge and we are still learning. Even if we stop keeping bees at some point, we are fore…
Flower Power
It’s spring—time to celebrate new growth, fresh foliage, and flowers! Beautiful blossoms delight. Whether it’s a dynamic, even raucous, sculptur…
WOW Farm Flowers
Where there used to be a large asphalt and gravel parking lot, today rows of amaranth, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos grow in front of the h…
Winning Gardens
Each year at the Northwest flower & Garden show and the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show a panel of local judges presents an award…
Photo Gallery: Portland Memory Garden
As gardeners, we know that staying connected to plants and nature is therapeutic, enlivening, and restorative. –Patty Cassidy The mission of the Portland Memory Garden…
Discovering Violet
Violet, the shortest visible wavelength of light is the least visible color, ideal for shadows, but challenging for the gardener. From “A Gardener Comes to…
Balboa Park
One hundred years ago, the Panama-California Exposition—a Spanish Colonial Revival fantasyland—was built in Balboa Park. The exposition was a dari…