Category: gardening
Gardening in Oregon
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Six years ago Craig built a couple of 4×8 raised beds for a tidy vegetable garden where we could grow tomatoes, tomatillos, squash, raspberries and, sometimes, garlic. He chose 1×6 redwood planks because they outlast by several years most other woods available in our Pacific Northwest region. But for the upright posts on either end…
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Why isn’t it enough to enjoy the beauty in other people’s gardens? You walk by and drink it in. All the pleasure. None of the work. Other people’s gardens full of black-eyed susans got me started with this color-saturated perennial and its dense drifts of bright blossoms. Desire drove me like a toddler who wants…
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Sometimes Wisteria outdoes herself. You never quite know when she’ll show up. And then one morning you step outside to see her gorgeous drapey perfection almost crooking a finger and saying: “Hey, girl, isn’t it cool that I’m smack in the middle of the back gate and ready for my photo shoot? Do get my…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 