Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Rubus

  • The Annual Blackberry Pilgrimage (Willamette Valley, Oregon)

    Yesterday I drove south on I-5 to Woodburn to pick blackberries with a friend of mine at another friend’s house. This has become an annual pilgrimage of sorts and is something we look forward to because good clean berries are becoming so hard to find in the city. A beautiful blackberry bloom. We picked for…

  • Golf Course Garden Inspiration

    OK, so if you didn’t know this, we live and garden at the base of an extinct volcano (Mt Tabor) in the city of Portland, Oregon. This volcano of ours is a cinder cone, and at its top we have trails, a park, and picnic areas—among a variety of other cool things. From the swings,…