So I dug the hole, I planted the plants. I met a LOT of my neighbors. Working in your front yard is totally different than working in the ba...

My sister-in-law and I chatted recently about how we've both been reluctant to put Oregon grape in our yards. I see it in landscaping un...

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...

This took all day. It doesn't look any different and yet everything hurts because I spent the whole day fighting with a roto-tiller. ...

Man, I love this time of year. The daphne is still scenting the yard, the tulips are all opening, and we still have all the summer and fall ...

Annie of Annie's Annuals calls herself a "flower floosie." I'd probably lean toward calling myself a shrub whore but now ...

I was so good, you guys. There were so many plants at the HPSO sale and I stuck to my list (mostly). I wanted ferns and I wanted crocosmia,...