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Bamboo Craftsman Studio, Garden, and Nursery

Susan Rich — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:11:20 +0000

Tucked away on a quiet side street in a peaceful neighborhood in north Portland is a small business on an oversized lot. It boasts one really big garden. A design studio. And a nursery. There’s also a client base that travels up the west coast to buy plants and order custom woodwork. This enterprise is [...]

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Bamboo Craftsman Studio, Garden, and Nursery

Happy Blooming New Year

JJ De Sousa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:36:48 +0000

I don’t know about you, but this fall season has really snuck up on me. I simply cannot believe how fast this year has gone by. I swear, New Year’s Day 2011 seems like yesterday. Okay, so maybe it is. Or maybe it’s because we had such a late start to our good gardening weather. [...]

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Happy Blooming New Year

Olive Trees in Oregon?

JJ De Sousa — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:52:19 +0000

I love my garden. Just sayin’…. I really love my garden. Over the last two years we have been totally remodeling our outside spaces and now that it is completed, I can hardly believe that it is mine! One of my favorite things in my garden, next to my stellar Agave collection, is my olive [...]

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Olive Trees in Oregon?

Lighting Your Outdoor Spaces

JJ De Sousa — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:59:03 +0000

WHEW! Sure glad that spring is over! What a horrible, wet, yucky, gloomy (well, you get the picture) season it has been. I’m ready to get outdoors, not just to work in the garden and make it pretty, but to sit in the garden, have a cocktail, and enjoy the company of my husband and [...]

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Lighting Your Outdoor Spaces

Put It in a Pot!

JJ De Sousa — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:36:15 +0000

Regardless of the size of your garden, or the lack thereof, you can indeed have a smashing container garden. It requires almost no space, is limited only by your imagination, is ridiculously easy to take care of, easily changes with the seasons, can be as colorful or as monochromatic as you like, is …well, you [...]

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Put It in a Pot!

The Shed

Andrew Almeter — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:03:32 +0000

By the time most people decide that they need a shed, it can be a real V-8 moment of “we could have had this years ago!” My wife and I felt this way after having our first child. We saw many of our possessions slowly getting relocated to make way for things such as vibrating [...]

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The Shed

Confessions of an Addicted Gardener

JJ De Sousa — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:58:58 +0000

If you are into gardening like I am into gardening, you know fully well that it is an addiction. Not a dangerous addiction, like one that requires a 12-step program, but an addiction, no less. When I first bought my house, I was not into gardening at all. Gardening, to me, was weeding for my [...]

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Confessions of an Addicted Gardener

Dahlias, My Favorite

JJ De Sousa — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:18:21 +0000

“Do you have a favorite flower?” a client asked me recently while working on a garden design. I’m not sure I’d thought of it before, you know, having a favorite flower. I mean, there are so many out there, so how would you really pick just one? But when the question was asked, surprisingly enough, [...]

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Dahlias, My Favorite