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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

Denver Botanic Gardens, let's go! Chapter Four of Five, rocks...
The Nature of Things

The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith: A review
Piece of Eden

She Had The Gall
sprig to twig

Digital Mapping And Aerial Photography Today
Gardening With Grace

Plant of the Week: Polygala
Late to the Garden Party

January Projects
The Garden Professors™

Fail to Plan or Plan to Fail? Planning for a year of garden success
Digging

Graffiti plant
Garden Rant

Winter Sun & Guilty Joy: A Letter to The Midwest
Each Little World

Garden visits: Linda and Bruce Christensen
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Resurrection Fern
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Resurrection Fern
Flutter & Hum

Wednesday Vignette – black and white
Garden in a City

Holy Moly, Talk About Your Borrowed Views
Bonney Lassie

It's Gonna Be a Helluva Year
Greenbow

Monday Mishmash
The Practical Plant Geek

Musings on Inspiration and Direction
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal

January 2019: rainy outings and Frosty memories
Close to Home

A January Harvest
Garden Myths

Does Liquid Lawn Aeration Work – Liquid Soil Conditioners?
Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog

New Year, New Garden, New Challenges
The Mindful Gardener

January Jewels
Flora Wonder Blog

January
Whatsitgarden

Garden blogger's bloom day
Chickadee Gardens

Let's Go! UCSC Arboretum and Botanic Gardens Part II
MulchMaid

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - January 2020
Red Dirt Ramblings®

Favorite indoor blooms and tropical plants
May Dreams Gardens

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - January 2020
Life In Robin's Nest

Not Much Garden
Deb's Garden

Best of the Rest: Leftovers from 2019
GardenBook

A New Years Eve Visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden
Urban Landscape, Native Landscape

Columbia City Seattle
The Lents Farmer

What Will 2020 Bring to the Garden?
A Leafy Indulgence

Missouri Botanical Garden Afternoon
Plant Lust

Happy New Year 2020
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
The World's Best Gardening Blog

The Myth of the Killer Walnut Tree
Future Plants by Randy Stewart

Japanese Perilla
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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