My friend Andrea just returned from a sun filled vacation in Tucson, Arizona. She brought me an Octopus Agave! This little guy came off the...

How lucky am I? My first bloom day and it’s in April. Who wouldn’t have something blooming in April? Actually since I don’t garden for the ...

This picture was taken at the Eugene Masonic Cemetery. The Euphorbia were growing next to the Hope Abbey Mausoleum. The cemetery is listed ...

I really thought I’d selected more than just 11 plants! When the time came to pick up our treasures and head to the check out lines I expec...

My parents came down from Spokane to spend the weekend with us and attend the HPSO sale. I warned them there would be crowds. I was not pre...

I saw these in a couple of places around town during our recent outing to Eugene. They were always in a parking strip (or Hell Strip if you ...

We met at my first Hardy Plant Society sale, 3 years ago. It was shopping paradise: a huge room full of plants from favorite nurseries and n...

Okay – just one last post about the great flax collapse of winter 2008/09. After the snow and ice cleared, and I was able to drive around to...

Sammy is a Yucca Rostrada – we think he is about 10 yrs old (so we were told by his previous caretakers, the folks at Cistus Nursery). Sammy...

Now imagine that curly straw on the side of your house connected to your gutters and acting as your downspout. Don’t ya just love it? The pi...