Skip to main content

Search This Blog

Dirt Therapy - Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

Gardening activities in the Washington state garden of Phillip Oliver, garden travels, local gardening related events

Pages

Home
The Alabama Garden (1992-2015)
Gardens I Have Visited

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2019

June Roses

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Two Open Gardens - Alan Bertin and Richard Hoffman

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Grow in the Dark - a book review

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day for June 2019

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Newer Posts Older Posts Home

Powered by Blogger

Theme images by Gintare Marcel

Phillip Oliver: Vancouver, Washington, United States

Archive

2026 35
- May 4
- April 6
- March 5
- February 11
- January 9

2025 91
- December 12
- November 8
- October 8
- September 10
- August 13
- July 10
- June 8
- May 5
- April 5
- March 3
- February 5
- January 4
2024 63
- December 7
- November 5
- October 2
- September 5
- August 4
- July 6
- June 9
- May 4
- April 4
- March 4
- February 5
- January 8
2023 79
- December 5
- November 7
- October 6
- September 8
- August 9
- July 6
- June 8
- May 7
- April 8
- March 7
- February 3
- January 5
2022 68
- December 9
- November 10
- October 7
- September 4
- August 6
- July 7
- June 4
- May 6
- April 5
- March 5
- February 1
- January 4
2021 78
- December 6
- November 4
- October 3
- September 6
- August 7
- July 7
- June 7
- May 8
- April 7
- March 6
- February 6
- January 11
2020 96
- December 10
- November 10
- October 6
- September 12
- August 10
- July 8
- June 10
- May 4
- April 6
- March 5
- February 8
- January 7
2019 57
2018 49
- November 3
- October 6
- September 3
- August 4
- July 9
- June 4
- May 5
- April 3
- March 6
- February 3
- January 3
2017 43
- December 5
- November 2
- October 4
- August 5
- July 6
- June 3
- May 3
- April 1
- March 6
- February 5
- January 3
2016 51
- December 7
- November 4
- October 1
- September 2
- August 3
- July 7
- June 5
- May 4
- April 5
- March 3
- February 6
- January 4
2015 24
- December 1
- November 2
- October 4
- September 1
- August 2
- July 4
- June 1
- May 2
- April 2
- March 1
- February 3
- January 1
2014 40
- December 6
- November 6
- October 2
- September 4
- August 1
- July 3
- June 2
- May 7
- April 3
- March 4
- February 2
2013 59
- December 2
- November 3
- October 6
- September 4
- August 3
- July 8
- June 7
- May 7
- April 8
- March 4
- February 3
- January 4
2012 75
- December 4
- November 3
- October 3
- September 2
- August 8
- July 7
- June 9
- May 12
- April 10
- March 8
- February 6
- January 3
2011 72
- December 3
- November 8
- October 4
- September 6
- August 6
- July 6
- June 6
- May 8
- April 8
- March 8
- February 5
- January 4
2010 90
- December 7
- November 11
- October 6
- September 6
- August 3
- July 4
- June 11
- May 10
- April 11
- March 7
- February 7
- January 7
2009 85
- December 7
- November 10
- October 5
- September 10
- August 7
- July 6
- June 7
- May 4
- April 6
- March 6
- February 10
- January 7
2008 72
- December 6
- November 6
- October 5
- September 5
- August 5
- July 7
- June 6
- May 4
- April 7
- March 11
- February 6
- January 4
2007 34
- December 4
- November 6
- October 8
- September 4
- August 8
- July 4

Show more Show less

Labels

'Snow Flurry' camellia1
A Tapestry Garden1
acer palmatum1
Actinidia kolomikta1
Aesculus pavia1
Alabama1
Alan Bertin garden1
Anemone blanda1
annuals19
Asheville North Carolina gardens1

Show more Show less

Subscribe

Get new posts by email:

Favorite Blogs

Garden Myths

Does Expanded Shale Fix Clay Soil?
Garden Rant

Where the trees have no names – just bad labels
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal

6 May: day at home, evening out
tz_garden

Drifting Plans
A Growing Obsession

Dirty Diggers plant sale (describing a beschorneria in bloom)
danger garden

Bricks and basalt remind me of home
Late to the Garden Party

In a Vase on Monday: A new color palette to work with
Places of the spirit

Getting ready to return to Quebec
Feeding My Enthusiasms

Happy Mother's Day!
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

A MOMENT WITH ED O'NEIL
The Nature of Things

Mother's Day
Eliza Waters

Silent Sunday – Primroses
PlantPostings

Busy, Busy
The Last Drive In

The Time of Their Lives (1946)
The Garden History Blog

Nancy & Norah at Kelmarsh
Botanica Chaotica

Popularity Contest
The Garden Professors™

Where do bees nest
the miserable gardener

loopless, for a moment
clay and limestone

First Wednesday Taking Care of Wildlife Challenge: Where Have All My Insects Gone?
Lee Reich

IT’S A HARD, HARD WORLD
Silver Screen Suppers

Silver Screen Suppers is twenty years old!
Piece of Eden

Myrsine africana, It Turns Out/Traschelospermum Starring Moment
Garden travel, ideas, and inspiration.

The Smart Gardener’s Guide to Spring Plant Shopping in Buffalo Niagara
Blog - Enchanted Gardens

Keukenhof’s Dazzling Displays
Digging

Goodbye to my garden; hello to my next garden adventure
Garden Musings

Is It or Isn't't?
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies

Movies I Watched in April
The Garden Diary

Bloom Thyme: Trust Issues with Spring
Life In Robin's Nest

April Beauty
Chickadee Gardens

Of Catios and Watering Cans
Landscape Design In A Day

Wabash Backyard Landscape Design Part 3 – Arbor Lodge in NE Portland
A Traveling Gardener

Guernica, an oak tree and a flower
Nitty Gritty Dirt Man

Bloomin’ Update 67: The Art of Doing Nothing & More
J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.

Happy Arbor Day 2026!
Poseidon's Underworld

It Actually Happened: Quiet! I'm "Speaking!"
The Garden Visitor

The Palmetum, Tenerife
Natural Gardening

I’m a wildlife-friendly gardener. Nice that the local mama bear and her three cubs like lettuce!
Yard N Garden Land

Plants That Are Slow to Wake Up
Digger magazine

May 2026: the Sustainability Issue
TERRA NOVA® Nurseries

Planning the Garden: Using Color Theory
The Queen of Seaford

Spring has Sprung in South Carolina
The World's Best Gardening Blog

Is Your Pollinator Garden Lacking Pollen?
Tending My Garden

You May Benefit from a Reader’s Story and questions
Garden Foreplay

Early Spring Planter Tips
Deborah Silver & Co.

Thirty Years
Garden Blog - Seattle's Favorite Garden Store Since 1924 - Swansons Nursery

What to Grow From Seed: Garden Ideas for Every Space and Skill Level
Swansons Nursery

What to Grow From Seed: Garden Ideas for Every Space and Skill Level
Dreams Are What Le Cinema Is For

THE GO-BETWEEN 1971
MySecretGarden

Pictures from Marcia Donahue's Garden
Hayefield

Hayefield Highlights: Summer and Fall Natives
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping

Few But Not Forgotten: Paying My Respects at the Houston County Poorhouse Cemetery in Dothan, Ala.
Planting Diaries

Anna Maria Garthwaite’s Horticultural Patterns
Gardenhistorygirl

Gertrude Jekyll's 'Munstead Flower Glasses'
The Lents Farmer

Forecast for Spring 2026!
Out of the Past

New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (26)
Harmony in the Garden

Designing an HOA Garden You Love
CAROLYN'S SHADE GARDENS

Snowdrops at Thenford Gardens
Jeffrey Bale's World of Gardens

Sezincote, a Mughal inspired house and gardens in the Cotswolds of England
Just a girl with a hammer

Trying new plants, just because you can
Hardy Plant Society of Oregon

A Conversation with Loree Bohl: Gardening with Foliage, Containers, and a Touch of Danger (2025 Annual Meeting Speaker)
Gardens, galleries and walking around

Standen House
A Leafy Indulgence

A Type of Zinnia
Red Dirt Ramblings®

Garden update: July
The Novel Approach Reviews

Review: To Sketch a Scandal by Jess Everlee
The Fuchsietum
The Fuchsia+Blog | The Fuchsietum
Veddw

What to do with a squirrel (without getting prosecuted)
Future Plants by Randy Stewart

Dalbergia
GardenBook

Bloomday-The Merry Month of May 2025
Plant Lust

Kazuyuki Ishihara’s Garden of Happiness: Timeless Japanese Garden Design Ideas from Chelsea 2024
The Humming Gardener

Rusted Steel Scrap Yard Plant Trellis Wall and Bench
Southern Meadows

Dimpled Trout Lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum)
Growing With Plants

Success with Cyclamen
Flora Wonder Blog

Sayonara
Lady Eve's Reel Life

Eternally Marilyn
Flutter & Hum

Wednesday Vignette – horsemen and horseshoes
CanadianGardenJoy

Moon Pie ?
Whatsitgarden

June in the garden
Site & Insight

Booongo slot ค่ายเกมส์สล็อตที่ได้รับความนิยมสูงสุด
Alternative Eden

Arab Baths in Palma de Mallorca
The Teddington Gardener

Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (October 2022)
Middle-Sized Garden

By: Alexandra Campbell
Close to Home

Foggy and Cold Outside
Garden Bloggers Fling

Saturday's Private Gardens: Impressive Urban Retreats
The Mindful Gardener

The Rewilding Experiment
Urban Landscape, Native Landscape

Paeonia veitchii
The Rainy Day Garden

A Mid-April look at the Rainy Day Garden
It's The Pictures That Got Small ...

THE THURSDAY GLAMOUR 15!
The Practical Plant Geek

Speaking of the trees
MulchMaid

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - February 2020
Gardening With Grace

Plant of the Week: Hebe
Urban Rose Garden

Elizabeth Park
Deb's Garden

Late Winter is Looking Like Spring
Bonney Lassie

Wednesday Vignette -- The Lurie Garden in June
eGardenGo - Tips to Inspire, Organize, and Grow Your Garden

5 Four-Season Trees for Small Gardens
Greenbow

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - October 2019
Garden Inspiration Blog - Alyse Lansing Garden Design

Heather’s Garden
A Plant Geeks Garden

Photo Friday: Catalpa Flowers
The Galloping Gardener

Iconic British gardens - Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex
Native Plants PNW

Wildflower Seed List
Secrets of a Seed Scatterer

Spartacus
Bear and Briar

Little Prince of Oregon Nursery visit
Rindy Mae

The Yard: 2/19/19
Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog

Intro to My February Bulbs
One Vancouver Garden

2019 Bloom Where You’re Planted
Cultiverity

Embarking
sweetbay

Late winter/early spring
The Rainy Day Gardener

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - February 2018
Suburban Garden Life
Floret Flowers

Show 7 Show All

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
PNW Plants (Washington State University)
Storyteller Garden
Trees of Sanford
WSU Gardening Guide
Xera

Social Media