Ann Loves Plants: a life in horticulture
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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.
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Garden Dinners in 2020 and Why I Love to Host Them
This year you can expect a lot more homegrown vegetables at my dinners—and some will be more familiar to guests than others. I’m not the vegetable grower that my Grandpa Sam and his father both were, but I’m not too shabby.
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Polystichum munitum (Western Sword Fern): an Early Plant Crush
The first plants I loved, were native plants. I say this without some of you knowing, I’ve never lived anywhere except in the Pacific Northwest in the Portland area. I love where I grew up and early on, many of my closest friends were the the ducks and crawdads that lived in the creek that…
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