Showing posts with label Dan Hinkley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Hinkley. Show all posts
Friday, July 5, 2013

A garden lives on for the next generation: Heronswood Open

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This weekend marks the 2nd open house for the world-renowned Heronswood garden in Kingston, WA. Once a famous nursery introducing some of ...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Impulse Buy: A fragrant sausage....vine.....yup yup

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Needing some slug bait and twine, I went to a local nursery and ran into horticulturist, Joe Abken, who informed me of a new shipment of vin...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

"Hardy" Schefflera taiwaniana found at local nursery

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Ok, so Zone 8 isn't quite hardy, but there's been so much hype amongst avid gardeners here about when Monrovia will release these GO...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Pretty with Pink

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It's always so thrilling to have a plant I brought back from China do well and flower in my garden. This plant was actually sent to me b...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Visiting the garden of a famous plant explorer.

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What a treat it was to join my colleagues at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens for a grand tour and visit to a one of a kind lan...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009

YouTube gardening videos

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While I'm recovering from this back injury, I still need to be productive somehow. It's a goal of mine to create and post some garde...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Magnolias in the Arboretum, The UW President's Home, Dan Hinkley's book launch, and late May garden shenanigans!!

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The heat is certainly on, YAHHHOOOOOO!! I had to make sure I was constantly drinking water during the intense heat of today as I had contain...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Dan's New Book:

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So many of us plant geeks are eagerly anticipating the launch of Dan Hinkley's new book in his "The Explorer's Garden" ser...