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Puget Sound Garden Fling 2024

 "What is The Fling? It sounds interesting," I'm glad you asked. Since 2008, The Fling has been an annual gathering organized by local bloggers in a different city each year, bringing together garden writers and bloggers. It offers the opportunity to explore public and private gardens in the area and to connect with like-minded individuals who share a love for gardening, including bloggers, photographers, and social media enthusiasts. I first became aware of The Fling a few years ago when I noticed multiple people I follow on Facebook posting from the same location simultaneously. Upon inquiring with a Facebook friend, I was excited to learn that this year it would be held in the Puget Sound area." To attend you need to have a social media presence.  Luckily, I've have my blog  My Life with Plants  where I've been posting for 15 years and also a Facebook page (also called My Life with Plants) where I post mostly photos of our home garden and garden related tr...

Eclipse of the Bluebonnets

The Huntington

Plantas de Patagonia

Bristlecones Take Your Breath Away

Northern England Gardens

Charming Calochortus

The Catalina Channel Islands

Anza-Borrego Early Flower Show

Castle Hotsprings

Cycling in the Carolinas Fall Color

Sea Ranch

The Ruin Garden at Chanticleer

Portuguese Wildflowers

Makin' More Mosaics

Yahoo, Oahu

California Dates

Home Alone - 2020

January 2020

Chocolate Cake and a Vase of Yarrow

Costa Rica Riches - Talari Mountain Lodge

Costa Rica Riches - Las Cruces Botanical Station

Costa Rican Riches - Around San José

Mystical Machu Picchu

Lady Elizabeth Rocket Launches

Eureka, I have found it!

Peruvian Puya Pursuit

Papa, can you hear me?

2019 - Malvern Spring Festival & Chelsea Garden Show

Powis Castle Garden

Off to Keukenhof

Borrego Bonanza

Salton Sea Highway Bloom

The Riads of Morocco

The Road to Marrakech

Wyoming's Wonderful Wildflowers

Crete's Unusual Plants and Wildflowers

The Other Grecian Formula

Makin’ Mosaics

Jardin Exotique d'Èze

Portland’s Lan Su Garden

Cuyamaca - Green Valley Trail

Climbing Cuyamaca

Crazy Carrizo

Southwest Australia - Tingle Tree Trek

Southwest Australia - Stirling Range National Park

Southwest Australia - Fitzgerald River Park

Southwest Australia - Cape le Grande NP

Southwest Australia – The Wave Rock

Southwest Australia - King's Park

Agavaceae – the Aggravation

Agavaceae – the Adoration

The Plants Start to Go In!

O Canada! Revisited

South Africa – The Garden Route

Kirstenbosch – This is the place!

Nieuwoudtville, South Africa

Pool Be Gone

Gopher Madness

Downward March

Seville’s Romantic Real Alcázar

Lots of Blocks

Step Challenge

Making a Home

On the Move

Raising the Roof

Holy Basil

Uncle Harry

We are Legal Now

1994

Perennial Adventure

Everything is Connected

Early Mentors

Annual Adventure

Middle-Earth, Land of Ferns

Nothing but Dirt

Head South Young Man!

The Scottish Herbaceous Border

Hub of the Bay

Starting Small

Valley of Heart's Delight

The Apartment

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

The Rear View Mirror

Tomatoes and Marigolds

Town Lake, Austin

Ostentatious Austin

My First Landscape

Going Back to Houston

Kansas City, Here we come!

Return to Kansas -- Dorothy hated it!

Florida's First Commercial Tourist Theme Park

River of Grass

Florida Paradise

Wichita and the Cold War

Collecting Seeds

My First Plant Memories