Upcoming Plant Sales
There will be FOUR events in the next few weeks, so mark your calendars and be sure to stop by one (or all!) of them. All proceeds help benefit our local schools. Each of the sales will offer native plants (note that some are not on the Portland Plant List). Please see below for more details about each sale! Fort Vancouver High School Plant Sale: Wednesday, April 24, 8am-6pm, Thursday, April 25, 8am-5pm and Friday, April 26, 8am-4pm Native plants available: Trees: Cascara, Oregon White Oak, Vine Maple, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar; Shrubs: Mock Orange, Flowering Red Currant, Red Twig Dogwood, Cascade Oregon Grape, Baldhip Rose, Nootka Rose, Douglas Spirea, Thimbleberry , Serviceberry, Red Elderberry, Blue Elderberry, Black Hawthorn, Salmonberry, Golden Currant, Smooth Sumac, Salal; Groundcovers : Western Yarrow, Wild Ginger, Sword Fern, Goldenrod, Blue-Eyed Grass, Soft Fruited Bulrush, Tufted Hair Grass, Oregon Sunshine, Maidenhair Fern, Checkermallow, Sedum Spat
Hi Phillip, I've read two of the three, the Beatrix Potter one, and Jenks' new book. I loved them both. I haven't read the others. I'm reading The Living Landscape by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy right now. It's very detailed and is taking me some time to get through it. However, wonderful book.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteDee, I have read that one too. I will have to include it on my next list!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me about the Potter book. I've been meaning to read that for a while. I'm a librarian too and also try to keep up with the trade publications. The new Rosemary Verey biography is on my list to read as well. And like you, I usually read in the winter but this summer heat has driven me inside to enjoy my garden from the window! Lately I've read two quite enjoyable garden books: Virginia Woolf's Garden by Caroline Zoob and Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden by Rosamund Wallinger
ReplyDeleteFelicia, I read the Verey bio last year and I also read the Wallinger book years ago and loved it. I am not familiar with the Virginia Woolf book, will have to look that up!
ReplyDeleteI think you will enjoy it very much!
ReplyDeleteI have read the Beatrix Potter one. I really liked it and the illustrations. I will have to get the one about the forest. I wish our library would get some of the others.
ReplyDeleteHi Phillip, thanks for reviewing these books on your blog! Some sound quite interesting to me and I will put them on my book wish-list, but my reading has to wait a bit. There is so much to do in the garden in the moment, I hardly even get to do my own blogging. Warm regards,
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Phillip, I've read The Forest Unseen~a really nice book of nature essays that can be read at your leisure; and The Living Landscape is winging its way to me!
ReplyDeleteI'm also hoping to get The Living Landscape soon. I've heard lots of good things about the Jenks Farmer book, so on your recommendation, I'll put it on my reading list (which is way too long at the moment!).
ReplyDeleteThanks for these ideas. I'll be visiting my library soon to find them and/or requesting them if they're not already on the shelves!
ReplyDeleteSome great reading there! Currently I am studying The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists by Lois Trigg Chaplin. It is a modest book with no inspirational photos, which I usually require in my garden books, but I have found it a terrific reference book.
ReplyDeleteI'm so looking forward to reading all of these as well as the others suggested. As usual, you find the very best things!
ReplyDeleteI have read several and Dee Nash's is one of them
ReplyDeleteI usually read gardening books in the winter, too, and spend summer downtime reading mysteries. But I have about four new gardening books waiting on my shelf to read, including Dee Nash's book. Now I will have to add a couple of these! I loved Beatrix Potter as a child and so did my children, so this one is definitely one I'd like to read. Thanks for the great recommendations, Phillip!
ReplyDeleteI've got to add Dee's book to my list!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the list! I got some great ideas from the comments too. :) I've got a few hand me down gardening books from family, and I'm ready to start building my own library.
ReplyDeleteHappy Gardening!!