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February 26, 2018

Getting the first vegetable seeds planted

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February 18, 2018

Old Fashioned Chocolate Loaf Cake

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February 12, 2018

Rocky Butte in Portland

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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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Garden in a City

The Calm After the Tulips
Life In Robin's Nest

Lovely May, and Still at Home in the Nest
Piece of Eden

Because Recent Events Have Been So Awful
Each Little World

Life intervenes
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal

27 May: plant sale prep
the blackberry garden

End of Month Review - May 2020
The Nature of Things

Poetry Sunday: The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Jeffrey Bale's World of Gardens

Jardines de Laribal, Parque Montjuïc, Barcelona
Site & Insight

More Befores and Afters
Digging

Cactus flowers and 3D-printed agaves
The Mindful Gardener

The Whole Heady Mixture
Late to the Garden Party

My latest project
danger garden

Visiting McMenamins Anderson School (Part Two)
Outside Clyde

A Walk With Phacelia
Garden Rant

Kathy Jentz and the GardenDC Podcast
Hardy Plant Society of Oregon

Nursery Interview: Brothers Herbs & Peonies
Flora Wonder Blog

Leaves of Gold
Chickadee Gardens

May at Chickadee Gardens
Photobotanic

Public Gardens in the Pandemic
Red Dirt Ramblings®

Vegetable garden report
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Penstemon calycosus
clay and limestone

Wildflower Wednesday: Penstemon calycosus
Flutter & Hum

Wednesday Vignette – checks, balances, and Prozac
ROCK ROSE

STATICE, Limonium sinuatum
MySecretGarden

The Garden of Mary and Whit Carhart - Pacific Northwest Style
May Dreams Gardens

Garden Fairies Provide an Update
Yard N Garden Land

Clematis
The Garden Professors™

The weed apocalypse
Garden of Aaron

Three Shots in the Garden - May 2020 Edition - Carefree Beauty rose, oakleaf hydrangea, smooth phlox
Whatsitgarden

A favorite bit
Garden Myths

Aspirin Spray for Tomatoes and the Vegetable Garden
Close to Home

Charm (and the 'Ballerina' Rose)
Garden travel, ideas, and inspiration.

A tulip time lapse
A Leafy Indulgence

May 2020 Bloom Day
MulchMaid

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - May 2020
Greenbow

Color Changes and seed planting
Urban Landscape, Native Landscape

Distillery District Toronto
Hayefield

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – May 2020
Gardening With Grace

Plant of the Week: Spiraea x vanhouttei 'Pink Ice'
The Rainy Day Garden

A Misty Day in April
Real Gardens Grow Natives

Earth to Humans: “Wake Up!”
GardenBook

Bloomday Caboose-April 2020
Deb's Garden

2020 Spring Garden Review
The Practical Plant Geek

Doing the Garden Shuffle
The Lents Farmer

State of the Garden - April Addition
Native Plants PNW

Maidenhair Spleenwort
Future Plants by Randy Stewart

Fringed Orchids
Plant Lust

Magnolia maudiea aka Smiling Monkey Forest Tree
The Queen of Seaford

Mid-February Garden Blogger Bloom Day 2020
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
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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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