This is a photo of a tree sucker sprouting from an existing root. The root is attached to a Black Locust tree stump in our neighbor’s front yard. Over 100 feet away. On the other side of our house. About 2 years ago, our previous neighbor (in the same house) decided to spruce up his property […]
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Learning how to camera
My phone has a pretty great camera, but after many lackluster specimen photos and no ability to zoom, I figured I should try to level up using better equipment. A few days ago I dug up John’s DSLR and have been noodling around with it. And by noodling around I mean taking photos on the Auto setting. […]
2017 NW Flower and Garden Show
John and I went to our first Northwest Flower and Garden Show on Saturday. I was sure we’d only be there an hour but stayed for 2+. In fact, I could have poked around for a little longer, but opted not to torture the husband who isn’t as much of a plant freak as myself. […]
Back at it!
After a long winter hiatus I decided to start noodling on this gardening website again. It’s been an extra-cold winter in the PNW and I just can’t bring myself to go outside and gardening in freezing weather. But I’m excited to see the snowbells popping out of the grown and that’s lit a fire under my butt to […]
First Post!
Every year in about February I get the gardening bug. And every year at that time I pull out the increasingly fat binder that I keep all my plant tags in and think “there’s got to be a better way”. I do WordPress development by day and am always looking for personal projects to up my […]