There's still some great statuary. This lady does not seem amused in the least with the little robot.
It seems like a lot of nurseries are featuring citrus, some hardy some not, for growing in the Pacific Northwest. Were they always doing this and I wasn't paying attention or is this a growing trend? Jungle Fever has carried them for years.
Loving the glass flowers!
Made using the "Reeder Technique" of gluing to a bud vase or, in this case, a bottle, for placement on a piece of rebar driven into the ground, these were quite nice. I'll definitely steal the idea of gluing glass blobs to the plates/bowls!
Acacia cognata 'Cousin Itt' is also a more frequent sight at nurseries these days.
gotta love a nice full nursery in the summer. O.K. a nursery at any time of year is pretty wonderful!
A little something from south of the border.
A creative use for some of those broken plates you have sitting around to make mosaics with someday.
Flat Cats.
And of course, TAAG (there's always an agave)
Yellow kniphofia, red and white penstemon, and orange crocosmia make an interesting combination. Fun fact about crocosmia from Wikipedia: The genus name is derived from the Grek words Krokos, meaning "saffron" and osme, meaning "odor" - from the fact that dried leaves of these plants emit a strong smell like that of saffron (a spice derived from Crocus - anothr gnus belonging to the iridacaea) when immersed in hot water. I'm going to go out and grab some crocosmia leaves to check this out!
Seeing Schefflera taiwaniana reminds me of the excitement many of us felt when these were first being introduced and were very difficult to find.
These almost came home with me because they're so bizarre and were on sale but I decided to think about it and when I went back, they had run away.
Delicious foliage! Notice those adorable pink eucomis blooms in the foreground.
What are two mermaids in a birdbath to do? Looks like they should have a chess board between them.
We've had a lion of a summer, which still has a couple of weeks left, this year and I hope you all have enjoyed the heat (A relative term. In the PNW a hot summer is one during which sweaters are not necessary) and sun as much as I.
Oh, one of those coneheads would have been right at home in your garden. What a bummer that they were gone. When my son was young he watched the movie so many times, he can still recite the lines from it. I love that Aztec horse too. Love the colorful sails too!
ReplyDeleteLots of fun stuff and great plants too!
DeleteCousin Itt, I'm still on the look out for one (or two). Those conehead guys looks are unique, haven't seem them before. Happy gardening to you too!
ReplyDeleteCousin Itt should be making an appearance over there soon as it's becoming a fairly common sight at nurseries here. This nursery is the only place the I've seen the coneheads and I fear that they won't be getting any more of them.
DeleteHow did you know about my collection of broken plates? You don't know about my aluminum dishpan with the hole in the bottom -- well, now you do. Maybe I'll put them together. I'll try to restrain myself from Alyssum 'suds'...
ReplyDeleteDon't all wonderful and wacky creative types save broken plates, cups, saucers, bowls, interestingly shaped rocks, jars, seed heads, cones, etc? The dishpan idea is wonderful and I'd definitely go with Alyssum 'suds.' How funny would that be?!
Deletethanks for posting daily!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your blog.
Mia
Thanks Mia, It's garatifying to know that you enjoy reading my ramblings!
DeleteIt looks like a wonderful place to spend an hour. Was that Acacia 'Cousin Itt' in a 6-inch pot?! They've only been available here in large (3-gallon+) pots, at hefty prices, and I'm hoping they've finally become popular enough to be offered in smaller pots as I "need" more!
ReplyDeleteSince they're grown as houseplants here, smaller, less expensive specimens are easy to come by. Hope you find what you need soon but if not, perhaps it's time for that plant buying road trip to the Pacific Northwest!
DeleteEnjoyed your tour of Furney's, I've been there a few times since it is near my sister's house. They really have a wide selection of plants now! I like the Aztec horse too, very cute. The Coneheads take me back to favorite skits on SNL. It finally dawned on me this very hot dry summer, hotter down south here near Portland, that Crocosmia is one plant that is spreading a lot in spite of the dry summer and 'Montbretia' doesn't flop too badly, so I'm going to dig up lots of corms and spread it around a little more this fall to take care of some areas with not enough plants growing. Interesting about the name and foliage, I'll have to try that too!
ReplyDeleteCrocosmia is a tough plant and doesn't mind the heat at all! Glad you enjoyed the tour of Furney's, it's a great place to find cool plants and related stuff!
DeleteLooks like a great place to visit!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed! We're very lucky to have so many great nurseries in this area!
DeleteWe stopped by Furney's about two weeks ago, but didn't see any glass flowers. I do know that my post about our "Reeder style" flowers has had more hits than any other post in my five or so years of blogging, so I guess we're bound to see them crop up.
ReplyDeleteI saw a "Reeder style" flower in an open garden in Seattle last summer. What a great idea! I can't believe I wasted all that time drilling glass plates.
DeleteWhat a wonderful nursery! The garden season is winding down here, and about the only color you can find in our garden centers come from all the mums and pansies. Too bad about the conehead figures--they would surely have drawn some attention in your garden:)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are about a month ahead of us. Although we do have nurseries that will have some sort of color going on all year. October and November will bring lots of fall foliage to go with the pumpkins, gourds, etc. December is all about evergreens and by January, the primroses and hellebores start showing up. We're very lucky to have some very nice winter blooming plants to keep us going until the spring bulbs start their show in February.
DeleteIt's funny, when they had a lot of those coneheads romping around at full price, I thought they were very strange and didn't particularly like them. Eventually they grew on me.
Once again I'm fascinated by the glass flowers and vow (once again) to try and create one. It could be a good winter project when being in the garden isn't always possible. The idea of a miniature chess board between the mermaids is a riot. I love it!
ReplyDeleteOnce you make one glass flower, you'll become addicted and want to make more!
DeleteYour PNM nurseries and this one are amazing in scale and exotic-to-me plants. Good ornamentation sold, too...generally more tasteful than what I see. (the mermaids needing a chess table between them...ha!)
ReplyDeleteCitrus - interesting trend there, Though NW Europe and the PNW have a similar climate, and at least some of the classical gardens in the former place have grown citrus for centuries; part selection, then protection or bringing indoors in winter?
Here's to a sunny winter for you, so you don't need to hibernate much!
Thanks for the sunny winter wish, David! We are lucky to have so many fabulous nurseries in our area!
DeleteYou're right about citrus in Europe. Many fashionable gardens had orangeries to overwinter their citrus trees. We have some citrus that are hardy here but the ones that produce really tasty fruit must be brought in.
Why do you tease me with all this garden porn? Sigh....
ReplyDeleteAs Paula Deen was fond of saying when she used a lot of butter in her recipes, "Because I can." You could always move out west when your hubby retires.
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