Ann Loves Plants: a life in horticulture

  • Not Just Your Average Walk in the Park: Mt Tabor
    Not Just Your Average Walk in the Park: Mt Tabor

    Ann writes about her 22 years in Southeast Portland’s Mt. Tabor Neighborhood, intertwining personal growth with her surroundings. While on a walk, she confronts past struggles related to CPTSD, and embraces self-care. Gardens and plants remain a source of joy while navigating life changes and newfound spontaneity.

  • The Other Grey Gardens

    When I think of “grey” gardens I tend to think of cemeteries—not so much Big Edie and Little Edie. I’m one of those people who was raised visiting such bucolic settings, and with the grey rainy days we relish so much here in the Pacific Northwest, visiting certain old cemeteries once spring has sprung can…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Welcome to Spring 2013

    Camellia ‘Bob Hope’. Sedum obtusatum boreale. Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco’. Sedum cockerelli grown from seed. Helleborus.  Stinking Hellebore, Helleborus foetidus. Mukdenia rossii.  Camellia ‘Black Magic’. Japanese Spurge, Pachysandra terminalis. Yellow Stream Violet, Viola glabella. Spurge ‘Blackbird’, Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’. Helleborus. Helleborus with Ranunculus ‘Brazen Hussy’. Aquilegia with Clematis heracleifolia. Sulphur Heart Persian Ivy, Hedera colchica ‘Sulpher…

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