Category: gardening

Gardening in Oregon

  • I began pressing flowers from the garden this summer. Here’s a sample preserved in my notebook for future color reference. The foxglove blossoms washed out colorwise. The pansies — those crazy stalwarts of the garden — popped, as did the penstemon and the nasturtium. The color wasn’t great, but the shape of the fuchsia made…

  • These guys! They’re like the last guests at a party who don’t want to go home. Pansies, a dahlia and my wonderful blue corydalis.

  • The rains have begun in Oregon, and soon the last of the flowers will wrap up their show and bed down until spring. I didn’t want to say goodbye for that long and so have been cutting and pressing a few blooms, mementos of all this year’s sunny garden pleasures. It’s surprising and fun to…