http://myfolia.com/journals?from=rssgraffiti folia journalsThu, 28 Aug 2008 15:17:11 GMTen-gbhttp://myfolia.com/journals/28270?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/28270Thank goodness yesterday is over with!! All I could do to keep from thinking about my tree was to actually photograph her removal …….I”m not quite sure why that made me feel better but I guess it’s kind of a “closure” thing. The 4th photo is Car...Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:17:11 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/28117?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/28117This is a very hard day for me and I know I am getting overly emotional but just can’t seem to fight the tears off. When we returned from our trip to New York I noticed my oldestDouglas Fir which is from old growth forest was shedding needles EVE...Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:10:46 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/27831?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/27831Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:01:04 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/27830?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/27830But boy do we have a beautiful clump of banana trees this year!! She made it back 2 winters now here in Portland OR. Bananas are very touch and go in this area but with our location being up against a hill, we are in a sort of micro climate. I e...Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:58:30 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/27544?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/27544I recently took a 2 week vacation visiting the east coast and took a ton of photographs for a book I’ve been working on. It’s interesting being in the larger cities and scouring the asphalt and glass skyscrapers for signs of vegetatio...Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:48:44 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/24148?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/24148Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:42:06 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/24136?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/24136Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:19 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/24135?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/24135This Oriental Trumpet hybrid by B and D Lilies is so magnificent this year I simply had to do a blog entry JUST about this flower!!! Below is directly from the B and D cataloghttp://www.lilybulb.com/l9045.html Classification: Oriental-Trumpet ...Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:40:33 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/23874?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/23874I am just blown away this year about the number of bird rescues and encounters I’ve had so far in 2008. Yesterday was quite the interesting day indeed!! First in the early AM as I’m sitting in the garden with my coffee, I hear scr...Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:41 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/23312?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/23312• Check out the blooms on my daylily “Custard Candy” this week!!! What a show with the 8” blossoms in mouthwatering custard cream topped with a raspberry eyezone. Such a favorite I wish I could force them to bloom year round....Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:55:26 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/22966?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/22966We just returned from a 10 day trip to the east coast (ohhhhhhhhh it was hot!!) where I gave a talk about my China trip at the National Zoo in DC. What a fun time!!! One of the strangest sights was to see Tai Shan (the 3 year old panda) stomp...Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:32:50 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/20837?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/20837Wow…going out in the morning to take photos is always an adventure but this morning I must have had 20 new varieties of clematis opening for the first time this year. It was insane!! The daylilies are well on their way coming into s...Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:34:42 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/20631?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/20631Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:21:05 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/20630?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/20630Oh yes…the weather I have been craving and waiting impatiently for has arrived!!! 90 degrees and sunny and late evening storms!!! This is growing weather and the plants are in heaven!! I have over 15 different varieties of abutilons in ...Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:13:40 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18691?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18691Looking spectacular out by the roadside this week!!!Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:54:48 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18690?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18690Yesterday after a nice few days of 80 degree temps following a deep soaking rain I finally am being rewarded with the blooms I have been waiting for all spring. Long overdue (by 3 weeks) because of the unseasonably cool temps and cloud cover this...Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:44:06 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/21933?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/21933Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:57:52 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18628?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18628Getting huge this year. All the “pups” growing great and I even divided a few out to other parts of the gardenSun, 22 Jun 2008 04:57:52 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18607?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18607Every year I say it has never looked this good…well I take back every comment I have made each previous year. THIS YEAR it has never looked as good!!!!Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:08:14 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18197?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18197BIG SIGH…my little robin fledgling that I journaled yesterday is gone. He was done in by one of my dogs. I don’t blame the dog and bless her heart she dropped the bird when I yelled but I cried for an hour!! The first and fourth...Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:31:55 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/18052?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/18052This week my little robin babies were raided by something in the middle of the night and I found 2 of the little ones with pin feathers dead on the ground. I did however notice there was still one left in the nest in my gorgeous clematis now in f...Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:53:00 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/16769?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/16769This week I was in for a pleasant surprise after the rains stopped. I was finally able to get outside yesterday evening to take some pix and my volunteer malvas had started their show! I had planted one garish fuschia colored malva about 10 years...Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:33:36 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/16340?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/16340I have been really enjoying some of the old standby’s in the garden this year…the simplicity of the old fashioned annuals and perennials really gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling! The columbine pictured is a volunteer…nothing ...Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:29:27 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/15685?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/15685As I reported last journal entry, my Impressionist rose was starting to go crazy on the trellis that I companion planted with a rich violet early blooming clematis. Well with all this rain and overcast weather in the Pacific NW this year, many p...Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:14:54 GMThttp://myfolia.com/journals/14327?from=rsshttp://myfolia.com/journals/14327I love this time of year as I watch the buds starting to form on the plants but especially my daylilies. They are going to need some warmer weather soon to put on a proper show this season but the 2 early bloomers just scoff at the cool temps and...Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:41:55 GMT