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…
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.…
Looking good right now
How is it already mid-May? Spring is almost over (by my plant phenological standards) and summer is lurking. Spring has always been my favorite time of year. I love the…
Sleuthing in the garden-rhododendrons
Gardening involves a lot of disappointments (I promise I will end on something less depressing!). You have visions of how well a plant will do in the garden and what…
South stream garden part 2
It is shaping up to be an extremely dry year, I'm afraid. After last year's massive forest fires that darkened our skies for weeks and dropped ash on the surrounding…
The ice storm – part 3
One last picture of the ice storm damage. This was a 30 foot tall black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) snapped by the ice storm. I planted it about 13 years ago…
The ice storm – part 2
February 13, 2021. It soon became apparent that we weren't going to get electricity back any time soon. Looking up and down our rural road, there were trees lying down…
In the beginning…
Every good story starts with a disaster... Let's go back to the night of February 12, 2021. It's been raining and the temperatures are beginning to plummet to freezing. Not…