Tag: Prunus

  • Le Monde Végétal and the Green Embrace

    Pardon my French, but it’s simply the way things have to be for me nowadays. As I enter into a new phase of life, one post-illness (aka in remission), post-marriage as I knew it, and during which I must pick and choose what really matters to me now, and ever-will-be it seems, I have to…

  • Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden (Portland, Oregon)

    Ever since I can remember I’ve been visiting what my family always referred to as The Rhododendron Garden, though nowadays, I’ve finally started calling it by a name others actually recognize: Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. The garden was started back in 1950, when my dad was a boy, and not long after my Grandfather Salvatore, aka…