Tag: native plants
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The Fruits of my Garden: Figs, Apples, Pomegranates, Asparagus and Berries
The second fig crop is still ripening on my Ficus ‘Petite Negra’. Days are shortening and nighttime temperatures are cooling down. Yesterday was our first dreary and wet reminder that our days are numbered. It misted and rained. Clouds hung in the air all day—as did the smell of PNW dampness. The city of Portland felt…
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Wordless Wednesday: My Garden Mythology as Seen by Examining My Roots (Home, on the Sandy River, and in the Gorge)
Achillea ‘Moonshine’. Sicilian Honey Garlic, (Allium siculum aka Nectaroscordum). Lamb’s Ears (Stachys byzantina) and an Armeria. Dutch Iris, Iris x hollandica. Miniature Climbing Rose, (Rosa ‘Clove Love and Kisses’). Columbine, (Aquilegia ‘McKana’s Giant’.) Clematis ‘Mrs. N. Thompson’. Growing up beside streams and rivers in the PNW this is how I learned to arrange rocks. Funny…
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