Plants in the Wild When The Going Gets Tough, Botanize! by Ketzel Levine December 29, 2008 • A lot of the people in my life had very unusual holidays. Certainly the economy had something to do with it, as did the weather, and a sad variety of different illnesses.
Way Beyond The Garden 24/7 Open House At Ketzel.Com by Ketzel Levine December 22, 2008 • Talking Plants Entry #196
Way Beyond The Garden Talking Unemployment by Ketzel Levine December 11, 2008 • NPR Talking Plants blogger Ketzel Levine begins to talk about being laid off this week.
Way Beyond The Garden When The Cows Don't Come Home by Ketzel Levine December 7, 2008 • If you happen to be a vegetarian, the news that a farmer's been losing money on his cattle and has decided to sell them is a good thing. The equation's very simple: fewer cows, fewer cows slaughtered.
Plants and Design Camellias At Dusk In A Chinese Garden by Ketzel Levine December 2, 2008 • If it isn't already on your radar for the trip you will inevitably take to my fair city, Portland, OR. (enough about theirs), do not choose between this and fill-i
Private Gardens What Happened to November? by Ketzel Levine December 1, 2008 • I know it's amusing when death takes a holiday (see: movies, books, musicals, The Sopranos, etc), but infinitely less popular when a blogger does the same. And I didn't even go anywhere, at least not physically, though I do remember enjoying mysel...
Plants and Politics WHO? White House Organics, That's W.H.O. by Ketzel Levine November 20, 2008 • The chorus is growing louder and louder to get our President-elect to convert a few acres of the White House lawn into a productive organic farm.
TP Flickr Pix Winter Dip Into Our Flickr Pool by Ketzel Levine November 18, 2008 • Radial blurs and sepia tones are showing up among the flora in the Talking Plants Flickr pool.
Hot Gardeners Great American Garden Survives Santa Barbara Fires by Ketzel Levine November 17, 2008 • When the Santa Barbara fire began last week in the community of Montecito, I thought of two people: T.C.Boyle and Ganna Walska.
Hot Gardeners Welcome To Candyland: Portland's Platt Garden by Ketzel Levine November 7, 2008 • It's a candyland of yellow, purple, red, blue and silver foliage at one of Portland's oldest and botanically best private gardens.
Hot Gardeners An Autumnal Peek At A Great American Garden by Ketzel Levine November 5, 2008 • The campaign promises are over; now to deliver the sublime, as we throw open the gates of a private Portland garden on the headiest day of American democracy we are ever likely to know.
Good Ol' Plants The Sun Break Season by Ketzel Levine November 4, 2008 • After my dog ran away, my house was broken into, my water heater burst and a flu invaded my body, I'm still willing to believe in autumn foliage as its backlit by a Northwest sun.
Way Beyond The Garden Exclusive Interview With Runaway Beagle by Ketzel Levine October 26, 2008 • In an exclusive interview with Ketzel Levine's runaway beagle who has just returned from four days on the road, a wannabe Brooke Gladstone of On The Media fame gets to the bottom of the story.
Way Beyond The Garden The Beagle Has Landed by Ketzel Levine October 24, 2008 • That's the headline, the happy ending details TOMORROW!!
Way Beyond The Garden Where The Hell Is My Dog? Day 3 by Ketzel Levine October 23, 2008 • It's been almost 72 hours since my beagle ran away and despite taking all the recommended steps, there's simply no sign of Starlet.
Way Beyond The Garden Starlet Still Missing Day 2 by Ketzel Levine October 22, 2008 • If you read yesterday's blog, you'll know that my 9 yr old beagle Starlet is missing. And if you're among the kind people who wrote w/advice and various OMG's!, I thank you from the heart.
Way Beyond The Garden Starlet The Beagle Is Missing by Ketzel Levine October 21, 2008 • Not that I think it will help me find her since none of you reading this blog entry are likely to live in my Killingsworth Ave/North Portland neighborhood, but since I can't think about anything else, I thought you should know that my beagle has b...
TP Flickr Pix Wonder What To Do With Your Fab Fall Photos? by Ketzel Levine October 20, 2008 • Talking Plants has amassed an online gallery of gorgeous fall photographs and is sending out an all-comers welcome invitation to come see and share.
Way Beyond The Garden Shivering to Sleeveless in 24 Hours by Ketzel Levine October 14, 2008 • From flowering dahlia to mountain snow storms and on to an October summer day in Chicago: a few days on the road with NPR's Ketzel Levine.
Plants and People Look What's Rocking At Versailles by Ketzel Levine October 8, 2008 • Among the Jeff Koons works now on view at Versaille is a whacko floral fantasy that could have sprung whole from the head of Louis XIV.
Techno Plants Lady Bird Would Roll In Her Grave by Ketzel Levine October 5, 2008 • Imagine corporate logos spelled out in the flowers on the sides of America's highways and you'll understand why Lady Bird Johnson would roll in her grave.