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Chinese Indigo, a truly carefree plant

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Wordless Wednesday

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Peonies and such

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More roses

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New Dawn - the perfect rose?

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May Roses

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A visit to John's Native Gardens

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Phillip Oliver: Vancouver, Washington; Retired librarian, relocated from Alabama to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in the Pacific Northwest. Currently working in a plant nursery during the summer and retail during the winter to satisfy my gardening obsession.

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Favorite Blogs

The Garden Professors™

Saving for the Future: Seed Saving Tricks and Tips
Site & Insight

The Medicine Wheel and the Four Directions
A Gardener's Notebook

Vintage Botanical Prints – 10 in a series – Shewy Fig-Marigold Botanical Print (1797) from The botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed … / by William Curtis. Volume 11, 1797
Piece of Eden

Fall Cutback
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal

12 Sept, part two: silver and gold
the blackberry garden

A morning of No Dig Gardening with Charles Dowding
The Nature of Things

Poetry Sunday: Monarchs, Viceroys, Swallowtails by Robert Hedin
Outside Clyde

After Hurricane Waters
Garden in a City

CALICO ASTER, YOU WIN
CanadianGardenJoy

Autumn is Closing in.
Flora Wonder Blog

Conifers Part 1: The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs, 9th Edition
Late to the Garden Party

Shade Plant Successes
danger garden

Yucca Rostrata peekaboo
Urban Landscape, Native Landscape

UC Davis Arboretum
Jeffrey Bale's World of Gardens

Garden Paths, A journey
Yard N Garden Land

Planting Bulbs
Digging

Tropicalesque Tanglewild, where bananas and palms grow big and bold
Chickadee Gardens

Smoke of September
Each Little World

The bedroom re-do
Close to Home

It's A Bad Air Day When You Have Purple Air
Garden Rant

Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes in MY Neighborhood?
Flutter & Hum

Wednesday Vignettes – hugs
MulchMaid

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - September 2020
Whatsitgarden

Garden Blogger's bloom day
MySecretGarden

Duris Cucumber Farm's Market
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies

Sunshine Blogger Award!
Hayefield

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 2020
May Dreams Gardens

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - September 2020
Digger magazine

Garden Trends Report for 2021 explores ‘The Great Reset’
She Quilts It

Pickle Dish and Mariners Compass in one quilt
LOOSE AND LEAFY IN HALIFAX

A LADYBIRD SUMMER
Garden travel, ideas, and inspiration.

Diamonds are this gardener’s best friend
Red Dirt Ramblings®

Gluten-free biscuits and wildflower honey, please!
ROCK ROSE

OXBLOOD LILIES Rhodophiala bifida
Plant Lust

Editing Season in the Garden
GardenBook

Brought to You in Living Color
Photobotanic

Summer-Dry Project – Book Release
Nitty Gritty Dirt Man

Tying One On — And Then Some
Life In Robin's Nest

August in the Garden
Garden Myths

Foliar Feeding – Does it Work and Should Gardeners Use It?
Gardening With Grace

Plant of the Week: Saponaria x lempergii 'Max Frei'
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Verbesina virginica
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Verbesina virginica
The Lents Farmer

Summertime Evening - August Edition
Casa Mariposa

The Final Post
A Leafy Indulgence

July Bloom Day
The Queen of Seaford

Planting Trees, Root Wash and Grandkids
Jim's Camellias

Survivors
The Rainy Day Garden

Touring M & M's Garden in West Linn
Future Plants by Randy Stewart

Polka Dot Plant
Greenbow

New Blogger, Old Blogger
The Mindful Gardener

Sustainable Change
Urban Rose Garden

Adding Old Garden Roses to My Garden
Garden of Aaron

Evenings with a Blue Bird
Real Gardens Grow Natives

Just the Thicket … For Wildlife Habitat
Hardy Plant Society of Oregon

Nursery Interview: Brothers Herbs & Peonies
Deb's Garden

2020 Spring Garden Review
The Practical Plant Geek

Doing the Garden Shuffle
Native Plants PNW

Maidenhair Spleenwort
Fairegarden

Worth The Wait
Rindy Mae

Life Lately: 2/2020
The World's Best Gardening Blog

10 Fun Annuals to Grow from Seed This Year
Bonney Lassie

It's Gonna Be a Helluva Year
Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog

New Year, New Garden, New Challenges
Rhone Street Gardens

Wideshot Wednesday - 10/16/2019
Garden Inspiration Blog - Alyse Lansing Garden Design

Heather’s Garden
Suburban Garden Life

Adventures in Hosting an Open Garden
A Plant Geeks Garden

Photo Friday: Catalpa Flowers
Just a girl with a hammer

Diary of a wimpy gardener
Secrets of a Seed Scatterer

Spartacus
Bear and Briar

Patio Project with Sweetstone Pt. 3
The Outlaw Gardener

What Next?
Cultiverity

Visiting the Gardens of Portugal & Galicia: Part 1
One Vancouver Garden

Seeds!
A Tidewater Gardener

The Last Sunset of 2018
sweetbay

Late winter/early spring
The Rainy Day Gardener

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - February 2018
xeraplants

2/3rd of winter down. What winter?
gravy lessons

My Ten Favorite Photos From 2017
Organic Garden Dreams

Christmas Time at Our House and Garden
Journeys and Jonquils
Love Letters to My Garden

Baptisia: My Favorite Spring Perennial

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Great Plant Picks
Hansen's Northwest Native Plant Database
Hardy Plant Society of Oregon
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Native Plants PNW
OSU Extension Service
OSU Landscape Plants
Paghat's Garden
Plant Lust
PNW Plants (Washington State University)
WSU Gardening Guide

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