🌱🌿🌾🌲🌧️🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWGarden #drysummer
A mixed bouquet of my Narcissus/Daffodils from the cutting garden, March 28, 2026:
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#organic-gardening #PNWgarden 🌲🌧️🌾 #summerdry 🥀
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River Rock/Drainage: "A dry creek bed using local river rock. Tip: I’ve followed the natural flow of the water in my yard, allowing it to percolate into the soil rather than the storm drain. This protects the local watershed and keeps the garden hydrated." Nursing Logs/Mulch: "Strategic placement of decaying logs among the woodchips. These act as 'slow-release sponges' for moisture and provide essential habitat for the beetles and fungi that drive soil health. This is how we build a forest floor from scratch." Pots Layout: "Native plants in 1-gallon pots laid out according to the Muse blueprint. Note the layering: Tall Oregon Grape for structure, Sword Ferns for the mid-layer, and Kinnikinnick as the evergreen groundcover to suppress future weeds."
River Rock/Drainage: "A dry creek bed using local river rock. Tip: I’ve followed the natural flow of the water in my yard, allowing it to percolate into the soil rather than the storm drain. This protects the local watershed and keeps the garden hydrated." Nursing Logs/Mulch: "Strategic placement of decaying logs among the woodchips. These act as 'slow-release sponges' for moisture and provide essential habitat for the beetles and fungi that drive soil health. This is how we build a forest floor from scratch." Pots Layout: "Native plants in 1-gallon pots laid out according to the Muse blueprint. Note the layering: Tall Oregon Grape for structure, Sword Ferns for the mid-layer, and Kinnikinnick as the evergreen groundcover to suppress future weeds."
River Rock/Drainage: "A dry creek bed using local river rock. Tip: I’ve followed the natural flow of the water in my yard, allowing it to percolate into the soil rather than the storm drain. This protects the local watershed and keeps the garden hydrated." Nursing Logs/Mulch: "Strategic placement of decaying logs among the woodchips. These act as 'slow-release sponges' for moisture and provide essential habitat for the beetles and fungi that drive soil health. This is how we build a forest floor from scratch." Pots Layout: "Native plants in 1-gallon pots laid out according to the Muse blueprint. Note the layering: Tall Oregon Grape for structure, Sword Ferns for the mid-layer, and Kinnikinnick as the evergreen groundcover to suppress future weeds."
River Rock/Drainage: "A dry creek bed using local river rock. Tip: I’ve followed the natural flow of the water in my yard, allowing it to percolate into the soil rather than the storm drain. This protects the local watershed and keeps the garden hydrated." Nursing Logs/Mulch: "Strategic placement of decaying logs among the woodchips. These act as 'slow-release sponges' for moisture and provide essential habitat for the beetles and fungi that drive soil health. This is how we build a forest floor from scratch." Pots Layout: "Native plants in 1-gallon pots laid out according to the Muse blueprint. Note the layering: Tall Oregon Grape for structure, Sword Ferns for the mid-layer, and Kinnikinnick as the evergreen groundcover to suppress future weeds."
March Madness: The 31-Day Restoration Challenge Blog is LIVE! 🌿
From digital blueprints to the dirt. I’m currently installing our "Architecture of Life" design: nursing logs, river rock drainage, and surgical planting into 6-month-old sheet mulch. Read here: zurl.co/awazc
#Dontmowgrow #PNWgarden
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Sundays in the PNW = recharge mode 🌲🦓
Tomorrow kicks off "Doer March", 31 days of invasive removal, sheet mulch planting, and ditching that high-maintenance lawn.
But today? Rest. Observe. Prep for the spring sprint.
See you in the dirt tomorrow. 🛡️
#DoerMarch #NativePlants #PNWGarden
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☕ Saturday challenge: Grab coffee or tea and watch your yard before the March rains hit. Where does water pool? Run off? Stay soggy?
In WildscapeMuse, these aren't problems, they're rain garden opportunities. 🌧️
10 min now = better design later.
#PNWGarden #Dontmowgrow #NativePlants
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Ready to design your PNW ecosystem garden? 🌿 Our final Architecture of Life post shows exactly how to use WildscapeMuse to create biodiverse spaces that support wildlife & thrive naturally.
zurl.co/oDSPq
Stay tuned, in March we go out and start planting!
#PNWGarden #NativePlants #Dontmowgrow
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Mason Bees need 4 things to thrive in your PNW garden:
Nov-Feb: Hollow stems for shelter
Mar-Apr: Blooms when temps hit 50°F
Apr-May: Damp, clay-rich mud for egg chambers
Jun-Oct: Undisturbed stems where larvae mature
Your garden is a life support system. 🐝🌿
#MasonBees #Dontmowgrow #PNWgarden
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Your yard: sponge or drain? 🌿
PNW gardens face climate whiplash, atmospheric rivers then heat domes. Traditional lawns fail both tests.
The fix? Native plants + organic matter = a living sponge that holds 20,000 extra gallons.
Full Sponge Strategy Blog: zurl.co/8uk9C
#Dontmowgrow #PNWgarden
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The oregano I’ve neglected and let spread further in our garden beds than intended each year brings so many birds when it’s at seed, I can’t see myself taking any of it out. 🌱 #PNWgarden #ChaosGarden #BirdFeed
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🌲 While others bundle up their garden "divas" for winter, PNW natives are living their best life! From glossy Evergreen Huckleberry to burgundy Oregon Grape, they're thriving (not just surviving) in our winter weather.
Ready to stop the winter stress?
#PNWGarden #NativePlants #Dontmowgrow
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The December garden is in full swing. There is still a lot to see out there. New post up at chickadeegardens.com
#chickadeegardens #pnwgarden #PNWgardening #oregongarden #droughtadapedgarden 🌱
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🌿 Before planting your dream garden, become a sunlight detective! Those shady spots & warm pockets are your garden's secret weapon.
Map your yard's microclimates to work WITH nature, not against it. Here's how: zurl.co/m2VrO
Follow for more like this!
#NativeGardening #PNWGarden #Dontmowgrow
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🦋 Replace your boring lawn with a thriving ecosystem that feeds birds, bees, and butterflies.WildscapeMuse shows you exactly how.
🎯 3 MONTHS FREE Visionary Pass - Follow to get the link this Friday November 28th!
💚Don't mow...Grow!
#EcosystemGardening #WildlifeHabitat #ClimateSmartPlants #PNWGarden
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Mucilagenous seeds on my rush grass. I thought they were galls of some sort at first glance.
Side note-mucilagenous is now my fav word.
Side, side note- why is there not an emoji for slime?
#rushgrass
#pnwgarden
#seeds
#wordoftheday
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Honeysuckle flowers in the morning sun
Late bloomer. #PinkHoneysuckle #Honeysuckle #Gardening #PNWGarden #PDXGarden #PNWNativePlants #mobilephotography
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Just love the transformation of this hydrangea every summer- it starts out with white flowers in early summer and transitions to this beautiful pink as summer comes to an end.
#gardening #flowergarden #hydrangea #hydrangeas #flowers #summer #pnwgarden
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Artichoke blossoms are looking gorgeous!
#gardening #vegetablegarden #artichokes #flowers #artichokeflowers #summer #pnwgarden
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Thus endeth the three months out of the year when it's warm outside. Nice while it lasted. #whine
Unfortunately this is also the time to prep for fall starts, scrub dozens of pots and planters. Can put on long sleeves but WET + chilly is still not fun.
#pnwgarden
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re: Hyacinth bulbs (Hyacinthus orientalis) - if they're planted outside, in the Seattle area strip of 8B along the Sound, will they get enough winter chilling to bloom well in spring? I'm running out of fridge-chilling-space here.
#pnwgarden #hyacinths #gardening
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Hardy Fuchsia 'Delta's Sara'
Hardy Fuchsia 'Winston Churchill'
Hardy Fuchsia 'Hawkshead'
Hardy Fuchsia 'Tom Thumb'
#HardyFuchsias are happening #TodayInTheBackyard
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#pnwgardening #pnwgarden #fuchsias #fuchsialovers
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When you garden more for your cats than yourself. 😁
I do love plants and cats.
#gardening
#pnwgarden
#gardencat
#asparagusfern
#portlandor
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A tomato ripening surrounded by other tomatoes and leaves.
A pumpkin ripening surrounded by leaves.
A ripe strawberry hanging over a garden box
dry silk on an ear of popcorn.
GARDEN TOUR: Everything is starting to ripen in the #garden. From beef steak tomatoes and pumpkins to strawberries and popcorn!
How is your harvest going?
#gardening #PNWGarden #vegetablegardening #vegetables #DIY #homestead
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tomatoes, onion, carrots, potatoes, basil, jalapeño pepper, and a bell pepper in a strainer.
Just went out to the garden and snagged some delightful looking produce for dinner. Tonight, I am making a one-pot chicken and rice with garden vegetables.
Recipe will be up on the blog soon!
#garden #gardening #pnwgarden #vegetables #vegetablegardening #foodie #recipe
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Alfie helping me to water the garden a week or so ago.
#cats #gardencat #gardening #junipergate #pnwgarden #portlandor
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2” deep red dahlia bloom. The petals are rolled and look as the one would imagine if you rolled your tongue.
4” berry magenta colored bloom
My dahlias are beginning to open. First time growing them.
Enjoy!
#dahlia #pnwgarden #flowers
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Grateful for my garden and orchard. #apples #applesauce #gardening #gardener #gardenlove #pnwgardener #pnwgarden #zantopiagardens #raisedbeds #raisedbedgarden #beans #lughnasa
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Yellow Dahlia
Orange/pink dahlia
Pink/white Dahlia
Orange dahlia
Dahlias are brightening my day. #pnwgarden #dahlias
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Onions growing in a garden box with a little bit of water on the leaves.
Beefsteak tomatoes on the vine. They are green.
A watermelon hiding in the leaves.
Ripe strawberries hanging over a garden box.
Garden tour.
How are we doing this year? I'm doing good except for my beans (dry and green) all got zapped by the heat in July. They're recovering. Everything else, *chefs kiss.
#garden #gardening #pnw #pnwgarden 🌱 #vegetables #oregon #vegetablegarden #homestead
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