Last week Loree inventoried her mahonia collection . Mahonia is my favorite genus of plants (I wouldn’t kick most of Berberidaceae out of bed) so I was very excited. As I read on I realized tha...
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Hey guys, did I miss anything while I was off, not blogging? Hoo, everything is terrible, no? I’m a weird one in that I don’t always find solace in my garden when times are tough. For a lot o...
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Congrats to Laurie G! I used a random number generator and you were selected to win Loree’s book. Please email me at heather justagirlwithahammer.com with your address and I’ll get i...
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I started blogging and gardening in 2009, during the heyday of longform content. I quickly found Loree's blog Danger Garden . She introduced me to so many plants I didn't know and that I didn't k...
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I've just returned from another successful Garden Bloggers' Fling , this time in Denver, CO. I had so much fun (or possibly lost so much blood to mosquitoes) that I'm still trying to recover. One...
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This spring I actually experienced spring fever for the first time in many years. I felt itchy to get in the garden and I purchased prolific amounts of plants via mail order and local nurseries....
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Lately I've been appreciating a bit of seredipity in the entrance to the backyard. Back in 2011 I posted about how I wanted the entrance to the back garden to envelop you , so you'd get a slow r...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/06/happy-accidents-when-you-dont-know-what.html
So when I recently attended the Garden Bloggers Fling I got to meet Carol, the godmother of Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. She has a cute illustration of a Victorian woman pushing a lawn mower on h...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/05/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-may-2018.html
I recently returned from the Austin Garden Bloggers' Fling, which was so fun I feel like I could sleep for a week. I ate my weight in brisket, I got bitten by both chiggers and fire ants, and I d...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/05/bugs-booze-and-brisket.html
It's one of my favorite months of the year! In spite of a pretty mild winter, we've had a pretty cold spring and everything is just a little behind schedule for me. Tulipa 'Flair' Tulipa ...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/04/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-april-2018_15.html
I've been installing trellising material on every surface available so I can garden vertically this year. L.l I actually have a lot of vines planted in my garden, but they all look terri...
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So 2017 was a pretty crappy year, huh? Despite the constant feeling of doom we had some good things happen. We adopted a puppy from the Oregon Humane Society . He name is Bee (Beezus Marie when...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/03/life-updates-and-plans.html
My spring fever is terrible this year, which is a pretty great problem to have. We're all euphorbias and manzanitas and hellebores and crocuses around here. The very first Tulipa humilis 'O...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2018/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-march-2018_15.html
Each year the Association of Northwest Landscape Designers holds a garden tour, showing off some of the projects their members have completed. The proceeds fund scholarships for aspiring landscap...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2017/06/the-13th-annual-anld-designers-garden.html
In other big project news, after eight years(!) in the house, we finally got our wood floors refinished. It took this long because I couldn't afford it for years, then once we could I knew we'd h...
Welp, big projects have been afoot at Casa de Hammer. But it turns out that having a sibling die and then going through one of the most stressful election cycles only to be dropped into an Orwel...
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Back in April I wrote that we were going to remove the cedar tree from our backyard. A huge thank you to everyone who gave me input on removing the pieris (it's gone!), as well as suggestions ...
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On this bloom day I am going to focus on the most exciting bloom in my garden, the one that I catch passerby snapping photos of on their phones. On May 1st I noticed that my Dasylirion texanum ...
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Using random.org , the winner of the ANLD tour ticket is Kris G! Kris, I will email you about picking it up.
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I was recently able to preview the seven gardens that will be featured on this year's Association of Northwest Landscape Designers (ANLD) tour . This annual tour is always good but I thought this...
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I love April. Our front garden is dressed like a pretty pretty princess. Cornus florida and Camassia leichtlinii 'Blue Danube' Othonna cheirifolia Sedum parmeri Gaultheri...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2016/04/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-april-2016.html
Big plans are afoot here. After dealing with a poorly sited Western red cedar for seven years, I've decided to have it removed. While I was completing all the measurements required by the c...
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This March feels less floriferous than usual, I think because we had such an usually early spring last year. The hellebores are still going and the daphne is winding down. Mahonia nervosa ...
http://www.justagirlwithahammer.com/2016/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-march-2016.html
A very happy bloom day to you! Euphorbia rigida Euphorbia x 'Blackbird' Helleborus x 'Black Diamond' Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' Helleborus x ballardiae 'HCG Cinnamon Snow...
Back in 2010 I had the fireplaces professionally cleaned specifically so I could light a fire for Thanksgiving. We have two fireplaces: one upstairs in the living room and one in the finished po...