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Phillip Oliver: Vancouver, Washington; Retired librarian, escaped 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

danger garden

Part Two of my 2019 visits to the Kuzma-Halme Garden
Digging

What makes garden art effective?
Garden Rant

Mad for Madison
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal

20 Feb: Port of Ilwaco boatyard
the blackberry garden

The Questions - Tamsin Westhorpe: author The Diary of a Modern Country Gardener
Late to the Garden Party

In a Vase on Monday: The new and the old
Site & Insight

Advice I’m Giving Myself
ROCK ROSE

CAN YOU SMELL FREESIAS?
Each Little World

A vase on Monday — and its neighbors
May Dreams Gardens

Happy Birthday, Potted and Pruned
Garden in a City

How I Pruned My Crabapple Tree
Outside Clyde

To And Fro
The Nature of Things

Poetry Sunday: February by Margaret Atwood
Flora Wonder Blog

Peter Gregory (June 1929-February 2020)
Piece of Eden

One Hand Planting
Gardening With Grace

Plant of the Week: Ribes roezlii
Flutter & Hum

Wednesday Vignette – a little reductive gardening
Garden Myths

Soil Borne Diseases – Does Soil Make Gardeners Sick?
Plant Lust

Ferns: got a thing going on
The Garden Professors™

When Good Seeds Go Bad: How long can you store seeds?
The Rainy Day Garden

Winter Blooms in the Rainy Day Garden
Greenbow

Gardening and Learning
The Practical Plant Geek

Bamboo
MulchMaid

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - February 2020
Garden travel, ideas, and inspiration.

A Before & After of Buffalo’s bowling ball totem garden
The Queen of Seaford

Mid-February Garden Blogger Bloom Day 2020
Whatsitgarden

February. Bloomday
The Mindful Gardener

Lux
Red Dirt Ramblings®

Heart-shaped plants
Chickadee Gardens

Nursery Visit: Xera Plants
Future Plants by Randy Stewart

Chilean Wine Palm
Rindy Mae

Life Lately: 2/2020
Urban Landscape, Native Landscape

Helleborus foetidus
Deb's Garden

Late Winter is Looking Like Spring
The World's Best Gardening Blog

10 Fun Annuals to Grow from Seed This Year
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Resurrection Fern
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Resurrection Fern
Bonney Lassie

It's Gonna Be a Helluva Year
Close to Home

A January Harvest
Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog

New Year, New Garden, New Challenges
Life In Robin's Nest

Not Much Garden
GardenBook

A New Years Eve Visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden
The Lents Farmer

What Will 2020 Bring to the Garden?
A Leafy Indulgence

Missouri Botanical Garden Afternoon
Real Gardens Grow Natives

Pacific Northwest Native Plant Profile: Red-flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Hardy Plant Society of Oregon

Happy 35th Birthday HPSO; Looking Forward to Many More
MySecretGarden

My Summer Garden-2019
Rhone Street Gardens

Wideshot Wednesday - 10/16/2019
Yard N Garden Land

sept test
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
Garden of Aaron

Bees and Partridge Peas
Just a girl with a hammer

Diary of a wimpy gardener
Native Plants PNW

Wildflower Seed List
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

Helpful Websites

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
WSU Gardening Guide

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