Category: plants

  • Revisit: JC Raulston Arboretum

    While in North Carolina for Christmas, my planned visit to Greenbridge Development in Chapel Hill. The closest I got was a peek through the closed windows of the office, and a quick driveby to the building site, which was vacant. Alas, not much to report, until I get some materials… although the real-estate folks were…

  • Revisit: Oregon Garden

    It’s a rainy, gray day in Portland, so i was sorting digital photographs and stumbled upon a few from a November trip to The Oregon Garden in Silverton, Oregon. This was my first visit to the garden, and alas, the camera died about 500 feet into the garden, so a return trip is required. The…

  • For the Love of Trees

    A number of articles in the past few days about the purposeful and sometimes not-so-purposeful changes we are making to our lovely local flora. The first article, from the Seattle Times – Nov. 27: “Trees giving bizarre clues to climate change” talks about trees as an early warning system to climate change by providing indicators…