Whorled Peas and Other Botanical Musings

I've decided that this is really Bletilla 'Yokohama', the hybrid of striata and formosana, rather than pure formosana. So I plan...

I've been going on hour or two walks lately now that the rains have mostly abated... except for the occasional June downpour. Here are s...

A couple nice things are open now. Cypripedium pubescens, for a starter. I've had this for many years, but it declined during our 2008 m...

The Gardener's Choice Nursery, on Hwy 99W in Tigard, has blooming Cypripedium kentuckiense and reginae (and an ugly macranthos hybrid) f...

After the rock wall was finished (dry stack), I dug out and shaped the earth into a trough with a slope that runs down to the end of the roc...

This is a seed grown Lilium columbianum. Quite nice. I have a much larger one with a dozen flowers still in bud.

I haven't posted a photo of our finished pergola over the deck yet. It really looks excellent. It provides a bit of shade at the end of ...