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  • Hacking away

    • Post published:March 22, 2022
    • Post category:Drought tolerant plants/Storm damage, drought, pestilence
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    Roots forming on the lower trunk

    Today's post documents some of the winter pruning I have been doing on my dwarf Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa 'nana'. First off, was cutting out…

    Buckwheat

    • Post published:March 13, 2022
    • Post category:Garden tips/Native plants/Propagation/Rock garden
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    I decided to try something new this winter. This rather untidy looking mass of gray leaves is a white-flowered form of the arrowleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum…

    19 and holding

    • Post published:March 12, 2022
    • Post category:Drought tolerant plants/Garden disappointments/Native plants
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    Garrya x issaquahensis 'Glasnevin Wine'

    19. That, of course, is the temperature in Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius) that we dropped to after I wrote "Is winter over?" Then it rained. A…

    Is winter over?

    • Post published:February 21, 2022
    • Post category:Drought tolerant plants/Native plants/Rock garden/Storm damage, drought, pestilence
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    Veronica (Hebe) pinguifolia 'Sutherlandii'

    That's what I am wondering as I write this post. We've just made it through almost a whole month without any rain, which is weird,…

    Thaw

    • Post published:January 30, 2022
    • Post category:Native plants/Phenological calendar/Storm damage, drought, pestilence/Variegation
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    Our snow was pretty short-lived. Starting on Wednesday, December 29th, the rains returned. I was curious how things had faired through some pretty dramatic weather…

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