I bought this giant chain fern ( Woodwardia fimbrata ) last year at the HPSO Hortlandia sale . I wasn't sure how it would like the ra...

I didn't really know what I was doing when I built the rain garden in the backyard . For starters, it's comically large. When I do s...

Hey Portlanders! If you've ever been interested in building a rain garden on your property, now's your chance! There will be a ...

Guys, I'm so sick of watering the garden. I'm sick of sunshine and warm weather and the hard rocky soil that prevents me from puttin...

When I built the rain garden out front I only intended to use rocks right where the water was entering it, to prevent erosion. I had used e...

Because I had AC installed and I put tomatoes in the ground, it rained a lot this week. We got a break yesterday afternoon so I decided I w...

This past weekend the boy and I missed the 80 degree weather in Portland to fly off to Minnesota for a really lovely wedding. The weather wa...

One thing I never knew before I dug my rain garden was how nerve-wracking the first winter would be. Did I make it big enough? (Yes.) Will i...

We wanted to reroute more gutters to the rain garden but I didn't want to do anything permanent until we'd really tested whether it...

Here's a quick video of the rain garden in action.The excitement, I can barely stand it. The basin is maybe a third full. I'm no...

Greg and I hustled back from the coast this weekend to pick up plants from the last sale of the year from the Audubon Society . When you let...