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Wednesday Vignette – parking lot plants and the horticultural disconnect
We’ve all heard the term “parking lot plants”, correct? And most of us think of them with with at least some measure of disdain. They are common to the point of nauseam, they are often sheared into...
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Wednesday Vignette – changes
I have some news! I got a fun job! This week, I started my training to become a plant buyer for Teufel – a huge landscape company here on the west coast. For as much as I like design, I’ve learned...
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Wednesday Vignette – evolving sensibilities
I have started to see an interesting change in myself. Ever since first becoming a gardener back in the last century, I have never really liked pink very much. Granted, a lot of plants with fab leaves...
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Wednesday Vignette – a wind is blowing
As the world is in turmoil, the most ravishing grass in the world is going to seed. As I was heading out, having just caught up on the barrage of morning news, the long, fuzzy strands of Stipa barbata...
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Wednesday Vignette – change is in the air!
At the end of October, the several hundred bulbs I had ordered for the strolling garden at the Benedictine Monastery project finally arrived. I divided them up into bags, and took a trip down to the...
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Wednesday Vignette – creative cleansing
Received word the other day that yet another one of the great features of our neighborhood will be disappearing – or at least moving – to yet undetermined new digs. Delia – a collaborative of three...
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Wednesday Vignette – new beginnings
This is a big week with lots of milestones. Not just in terms of our earthly rotation – as the end of fall almost unnoticeably glides into winter – but also worldly events on the national, political...
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Wednesday Vignette – seeing
A little over a month ago, we spent a week at the Oregon coast. Somehow life was quite different on the other side of that vacation, compared to what it is now. The most recent month has been full of...
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Wednesday Vignette – a new deal
Staggering changes at work this past week. Into the norm of relative, quiet predictability, was thrown a major disruption. It made home life seem like the only real stability – which of course, is...
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Wednesday Vignette – off the beaten path
The other day, I got sick of sitting in traffic, and jumped the freeway for a shortcut through the remnants of Portland’s NW Industrial area. There was something about this building, with the Fremont...
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