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Tag Archives: Native Plants
Something is Still Sensitive Here. Maybe it is just me.
Almost two months of fairly enforced idleness (gardenwise, anyway) have given me ample opportunity to look out the window at my past labors and think about this land–shortly mine no longer–the health of the forest, and property restrictions in the … Continue reading
Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part three, a change of plan)
In late December and into January, while I waited for the soil to thaw and my special-order mutant Native plants to arrive, I studied up on Mountain Beaver control (this creature, which eats a few hundred dollars a year’s worth … Continue reading
Posted in 'green, or Green?', DIY, Family Activity, Landscaping, Native Plants, Property Restrictions
Tagged Bigleaf Maples, Changing My Mind, giant rocks, Hakeem Olajuwan Dream Shake, House Sold, Mountain Beaver, Mountain Beavers, Native Plants, Nature, New house, Project List, Property Restrictions, Vine maple 'Pacific fire', Western Hemlock 'Iron Springs'
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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part two)
Returning to my snug and solidly built home after a day on a precarious roof and in the crawlspace of a dangerously sagging structure, I remarked to my wife how “we had wanted more outdoor living, but came very close … Continue reading
Posted in 'green, or Green?', DIY, Landscaping, Native Plants, Property Restrictions
Tagged Acer japonicum 'Bloodgood', Azalea 'Hino crimson', Confinement Fence, Hearthsong swing, Native Plants, Nature, Property Restrictions, Schroedinger's Cat, Schroedinger's Mime, SCIENCE!, Vine maple 'Pacific fire', Western Hemlock 'Iron Springs'
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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part one)
When our home was for sale last fall, one evening we found a note taped to our door: “I have questions about your house,” with a name and phone number. Thinking it a potential sale, I called her the next … Continue reading
Yellow Lake
Posted in Family Activity, Native Plants, Outdoor Living
Tagged Clear skies, community, douglas fir, Ducks, Ice quackers, Mystery drupes, Native Plants, Nature, New Year's walk, outdoors, sword fern., Yellow Lake
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October, year over year…over year
All photos on the left taken by the Mitigation Planner, October 5, 2010. Center photos taken by me October 8, 2011. Photos on the right taken by me October 7, 2012.
Replacement, Addition, Enhancement, Again
In my experience, the adaptive response of most common nursery plants, when excessively pruned, is to die. In a previous life, my wife worked for a decade or so in the wholesale floral industry. When she expressed an interest in … Continue reading
Summer-y summary
Autumn is upon me, here in the nether region between I Don’t Want to Live Here Anymore and Now I Live Somewhere Else. When you exist in a shadow world such as this, you tread a fine line between the … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Family Activity, Moss Gardening, Native Plants, Outdoor Living
Tagged Autumn, Dozuki Saw, Dream House, End of Summer, For Sale, Grievous self-injury, Moss, Native Plants, Nurse stick
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‘green,’ or Green? the epilogue
I’d like to tell you that as I set my motorcycle-booted foot across the threshold of the City Hall meeting room last March, ‘Bad to the Bone’ began to play out of nowhere. I wish I could say that I … Continue reading
