good gardens

Holst Architecture’s Smart Little Office Garden

06/21/2011 By Kate Bryant

upcoming events

Grow Your Own Seeds Workshop and Ayers Creek Field Day

06/19/2011 By Kate Bryant

contest

Terrarium Craft Contest

enter to win book, video and a darling terrarium kit!

06/16/2011 By Kate Bryant

plant of the week

Oriental Poppies

Fragile looking but tough as nails, these gorgeous old-fashioned flowers are ephemeral but oh-so-worth it!

06/09/2011 By Kate Bryant

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Want to Learn About Trees?

The City of Portland’s Neighborhood Tree Steward program offers a Heritage Tree workshop

06/06/2011 By Kate Bryant

plant of the week

Chilean flame tree (Embothrium coccineum)

06/03/2011 By Kate Bryant

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Cistus Design Nursery

a fine place to drink in springtime

06/01/2011 By Kate Bryant

gardening events

Attracting Native Pollinators To Your Garden or Farm

05/29/2011 By Kate Bryant

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The Sensual Garden

Artist Jeffrey Bale’s thoughts on making the garden a playground

05/27/2011 By Kate Bryant

gardening events

Inviting Vines Garden Tour, Schreiner’s Iris in Bloom, and a Country BBQ

05/23/2011 By Kate Bryant

get dirty

Ready, Set, Plant!

05/20/2011 By Kate Bryant

Mudroom

Plantwise: What’s Growing this Month

Plant Summer Veggies

05/20/2011 By Kate Bryant

Feature

Secret Gardens

With a freewheeling spirit and a small army of fervent plant geeks, the McMenamin brothers have casually cultivated some of oregon’s most stunning gardens.

05/20/2011 By Kate Bryant

gardening events

Rare Plant Research Open House

with wine-tasting, lunch, and three other nurseries offering open house events

05/16/2011 By Kate Bryant

plants and politics

Jasmine Banned in China

start your own "jasmine revolution"

05/15/2011 By Kate Bryant

plant of the week

A Fantastic and Often-Overlooked Native Perennial

False Solomon’s Seal – Smilacina racemosa

05/13/2011 By Kate Bryant

adventures in garden writing

I Know It’s Spring…

…when the trial plant samples show up in the mail!

05/12/2011 By Kate Bryant

upcoming events

Portland Audubon Native Plant Sale

05/09/2011 By Kate Bryant

things to do

Question: When is the Best Time to Plant Tomatoes and Summer Flowers?

Answer: Not Quite Yet!

05/05/2011 By Kate Bryant

plant of the week

Grow Rapini or Spring Raab

keep an eye out for seeds to sow in July

05/03/2011 By Kate Bryant