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welcome!

Welcome to Blooms & Greens, our adventures in a Pacific Northwest garden in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains. Come along!
Western Columbine, Kenai Fjords National Park (via NPS/Paige Calamari)
Western Columbine, Kenai Fjords National Park (via NPS/Paige Calamari)

Welcome to Blooms & Greens, a Pacific Northwest garden in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains. This renewed space is devoted mostly to gardening here at home, with the occasional side trip along the way. More than anything, it is a place to share notes from the garden as it changes from season to season and year to year.

Our current cover photo features a Western Columbine taken at the Kenai Fjords National Park (via NPS/Paige Calamari). This flower appropriately puts the wild in a wildflower! Known as "Aquilegia Formosa" this striking wildflower is both graceful and wonderfully wild, with spurred petals that bring to mind an eagle’s talons. And oh, how gorgeously wild it is!

Blooms & Greens will follow the rhythms of the garden — the plants, the birds, and the small discoveries that appear when you spend time outdoors. If you’d like to follow along, you’re warmly invited to subscribe and receive an email whenever a new post is published. We hope you'll tag along on this adventure.

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The Garden Keeper

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