Category: Northwest Flower & Garden Show

  • It’s the Unplanned, a Thing Called Life, in the Garden

    “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect  the whole world looks like home for a time.” Hermann Hesse A great deal has recently grown in this garden—both intended and otherwise. Many of my new plants, sown this year from seeds sent to me in the mail only last winter, have borne great and rich…

  • Dianthus barbatus ‘Green Trick’

    Back at the Northwest Home and Garden Show we saw a plant in an ikebana display we had never seen before. It immediately attracted both my husband and I because we love green “blooms”. As we neared, I could see that the stem looked a lot like a Dianthus, and it was one, but not…