Witchhazel ‘Arnold Promise’ Hamamelis x intermedia The seasons of time turn, and changes come and pass, leaving memories of summer, even in the frost of January. Those memories of warm summer days are never forgotten with a witchhazel plant. In the middle of snow and ice the winter seems to fade when the witchhazel blooms bright yellow and orange. The highly fragrant scent is … Continue reading Witchhazel ‘Arnold Promise’
This book put new and different ideas in my mind. Plants in charge? Plants bending us to their will? I hadn’t before thought of this concept; a plant’s eye view of the world. Now I can never go back to the old way of thinking: that people alone shape our world. I know that plants are living and growing, but I didn’t understand how … Continue reading Book Review: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Ukigumo ‘I think that I shall never see a thing as lovely as a tree.’ With leaves of cream and pink and green, Japanese Maples are often seen. The reason being they have beauty all, winter, spring, summer, fall. Ukigumo translates ‘floating clouds’ and when I see them I’m often loud. Exclaiming at their grace and size of eight feet tall and six feet wide. Happiness grows in pot or … Continue reading Ukigumo Japanese Maple
The Canary Islands, native home of echium Some things don’t work out. Growing Echium in Sammamish. New Years resolutions. Life. The lava mouse. Echium pininana is a brilliant plant, but difficult here in the Northwest. A biennial, it produces a flower spike in it’s second year up to 18 feet tall. This tower of small blue flowers will suck any gardener into a bee-buzzed trance. … Continue reading Echium
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