Compelling subjects I had to snap

 
HVD original photo / spotted, spring 2019 / last year, the Dinner With a View pop-up was ruffling feathers in some cities due to placement and prices / now we all need a personal-pan-pizza-size dome #montreal #montrealcanada #larondemontreal #dinner
HVD original photo / ain’t no party like a Western Sword Fern party some days, watching the groundcover :: mulch ratio slowly shift toward green seems too metaphorical / other days, it’s an enormous comfort when the final fronds make th
HVD original photo / baby redwood sorrel (oxalis oregana “Klamath Ruby”) with newish plugs of the balletic carex praegracilis yes, if these young natives had some age on ‘em it’d be a more exciting shot...but it’s prime
HVD original photo / I can’t say time’s flying these days — but I also can’t believe it’s been 8 years since I spent a few days at Korakia Pensione here, the property’s entrance courtyard beckons guests to a 1924
HVD original photo / PNW native evergreen huckleberry (vaccinium ovatum) / late March transition from buds to bee-magnet flowers IMO one word separates those who garden (me) from true gardeners — and that word is “patience” even t
HVD original photo / neighbors #naturehelps #springisntcancelled #citygarden #citygardeners #urbangarden #urbangardener #pdxgardening #pdxgardeners #oregongardening #oregongardener #pnwgarden #pnwgardening #gardengram #texturestudy
HVD original photo / when you can’t paint the town red, paint something blue? / door chore creeping blue speedwell (also thrives as an evergreen groundcover for me) #naturehelps #springisntcancelled #springbloomers #citygarden #citygardeners
HVD original photo / detail, Ron English’s “Mona Lisa” for the 2017 Montreal Mural Festival / taken in spring 2019 a lot of art unsettles me exhibit A currently I want comfort but not complacency thank you to the artists from al
HVD original photo / a 🐛-eye view and intense sun makes this compact pieris japonica look much more imposing than it is (and hides the crap in our back corner...win-win) its lovely lily-of-the-valley-like blooms are past their prime and a rejuvenat
HVD original photo / adorably frivolous violas that I’m pretending are on my master plan Because of course I tossed the tag 💯 cheerful, evergreen carex Everillo behind #decomposedgranite path #springbloomer #pdxgardening #pdxgardeners #oreg
HVD original photo / spotted while wandering: breeze-swept euphorbia and painterly tulips in a hellYEAHstrip #naturehelps #springbloomers #tulips #tulipseason #sidewalks #urbannature #hellstrip #hellstripgardening
HVD original photo / wind meets willow #naturehelps #willow #willowtree #sidewalks #urbannature #citytree
HVD original photo / detail, 2011 fence mural / like looking in a mirror #vernacularart (can’t ID artist sig) #publicart #streetart #streetartistry #urbanstreetart #mural #murals #currentmood #iknewthiswouldcomeinhandy
HVD original photo / this western wakerobin (trillium ovatum) continues to adjust to its new surroundings after leaving the verdant forested setting of Bosky Dell Natives a few weeks back seems like a long time ago, now does it start its day wonder
HVD original photo / Discovery Trail the natural beauty of Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula creates such a spell that I can look at a photo from years ago and remember the awe I felt while the Chinook people were first to call the area home,
HVD original photo / waiting game this Korean Spice viburnum (viburnum carlesii “Aurora”) was one of the first things we planted as novice gardeners back in the day cons: it anchors a back corner that gets very bare when its leaves go
HVD original photo / the streets in my city may be strangely quiet, but they’re far from empty #foundart #takeawalk #hellstrip #creativity #imagination #fairygarden
HVD original photo / the delicate nodding blooms of this epimedium — alias Bishop’s Hat and barrenwort among others — bear the brunt of my current frustration they weren’t supposed to be pink! they’ve messed everything
HVD original photo / corona’s presence looms as my household continues to chip away at the DIY portion of our urban garden rehab maybe that explains why planting lungwort (pulmonaria “Dark Vader”) next to a stepping stone path has
HVD original photo / for years and years, this evergreen clematis obscured a chain link enclosure we’d never bothered to remove due to a complicated situation involving a large concrete fishpond (legacy of prior owners) as part of our big part