Tag Archives: Native Plants

Something is Still Sensitive Here. Maybe it is just me.

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

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 →

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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part three, a change of plan)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

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 →

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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part two)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

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 →

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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part one)

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

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 →

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Yellow Lake

Posted on January 11, 2013 by
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October, year over year…over year

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

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.

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Replacement, Addition, Enhancement, Again

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

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 →

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