Plant dissections
Bleeding heart - dissected. Surprisingly, there wasn't any blood. Enjoy!
Gardens in spring
I am in heat dome denial. The next few posts will be about things that caught my eye when I visited various nurseries and neighborhoods this last spring, when it…
The end of Spring
Well, it's almost official. The end of spring. I always have in the back of my mind a sort of floral calendar that takes me through this time of year.…
Good lord! You bought that thing on purpose?!
-Yup, I did. I bought it. What is it? Some sort of deformed ugly boxwood? You bought a boxwood??? Ewwww. You are dead to me. -Well, actually no. Look closer.…
Random
Random plant photos from the last several weeks. First up, I liked the color of this iris at Portland Nursery from a few weeks ago. Sign of the times. This…
Disappointment (and delight)
Disappointment is when you forget to water just one single day and a newly purchased plant burns on one side (or even worse, dies). Picea abies 'Little Gem'. Delight is…
New plants part 2
As promised, here is what I bought from Portland Nursery last weekend. Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom' (tall rangy thing in the middle) was the evergreen vine I chose for the…
New plants!
Last Sunday, I finally got to go plant shopping up in Portland. At the top of my want list was getting a quick-growing evergreen vine. Ideally something with scented flowers…
Subtle flowers
Today, some subtle flowers that might go unnoticed if we didn't take a closer look. Let's start with Paris quadrifolia, a close relative of our native trilliums. We've got three…
Sleuthing in the garden – Rhododendrons part 2
Previously on Botanica Chaotica I was dealing with a sad chlorotic, root weevil ridden mess of a rhododendron. As a reminder. The darn thing has looked this way for years.…