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Musa sikkimensis ‘Red Tiger’ (Bengal Tiger) and the Banana Story: Evolution...
Musa sikkimensis ‘Red Tiger’ taken three years ago…before this Tiger lost its stripes! Musa sikkimensis ‘Red Tiger’ backlit. If I saw this plant in a nursery today, I’d be sorely tempted to buy...
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Bocconia frutescens: Choice Tender Garden Plant or Invasive?
Bocconia frutescens with its inflorescence of single seeded fruit, one of the ‘woody’ Poppies that comprise the genus. Macleaya cordata, from the same family, has a similar look, though topping out...
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Roldana cristobalensis (formerly Senecio cristobalensis…now, Roldana...
Roldana petasitis var. cristobalensis shown here looking amazing with Aeonium arboretum ‘Zwartzkop’. Its substantial leaves are some 8″ across, thick and velvety, the undersides of which are...
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Growing and Understanding Globe Mallows in the Urbanized Maritime NW:...
Every plant evolved in and lives in context. They are dependent upon it for continuing support, not just for their survival, but for their well being as they grow, mature and attempt to reproduce. It...
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The Fascicularia and Ochagavia Question: Two Worthy and Relatively Hardy...
The inflorescence of Fascicularia bicolor with its blue flowers. The center of the foliage on a blooming rosette, turns red when the flowers appear and then, like many Bromeliad, that rosette dies...
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Winter 0f ’18 -’19: Cloudy, Mild With a Chance of….On Weather, Zones & Plants
It’s 41ºF at 5:30am on Mar. 12 as I begin to write this. We appear to have come out of the longest sustained ‘cold’ period of the winter of ’18-’19 which began on February 4 and continued through...
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Gardening in Public, Charismatic Mega Flora and the Need for a Public...
We ‘need’ charismatic mega-flora today, plants that scream out to even the most plant blind of us to take notice, those that create such a sudden and uncontrollable ‘stir’ within us that our simple...
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Agapanthus for the Maritime Pacific Northwest: Not all of these are well...
A fellow gardener asked the question about whether there were a list of sure thing Agapanthus, plants that a beginner could confidently choose and have success with in most of the maritime PNW. I’m...
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“To be, or not to be? That is the question—Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end...
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Spruce Park, Redmond’s Newest Park and Our Neighbor: a horticultural critique
Redmond’s Spruce Park looking NNE from the SW corner toward Gray Butte and Smith Rock in the background. The border beds which follow much of the loop path are ‘native’ plantings according to the...
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