Earlier this month my carni-bro Kinjie and I had the pleasure of visiting Jerry Addington. (Ron, great seeing you too!) It is always an honor and a joy spending time with Jerry. No matter how much time I spend there – I simply can not comprehend the amount of botanical beauty and badassery that is present. I won’t even try to describe it – so hope you enjoy a few photos from this visit!
Highlight photo reel in the post below, full photo set in the slideshow. Check out the full Screen slideshow here.) Enjoy!
And Jerry – as always, thank you for your generosity and kindness. Thank you for being an inspiration to me and to so many others. You’re awesome man.
Back on 6 and 7 Jun 2014, a plan went into effect to surprise one of the wonderful botanical inspirations in my life: my friend, Jerry Addington the GREAT. Jerry was hosting an assemblage of carnivorous plant growers at his place in the Washington countryside and this was something that I did not want to miss. I figured it would be the perfect time to surprise Jerry.
In addition to this, another good friend of mine – the legendary Wes Buckner and his family were all going to be there as well! I saw Wes, Megan, and Caleb a couple of weeks prior to Jerry’s event. They stopped by my place on their road trip out from Tennessee and I got to show them a little bit of the SF Bay Area. Good times!
Anyway, I figured I might as well just surprise them ALL at Jerry’s. Helping me organize this surprise was my brother from another mother – Kinjie Coe. (Yeah, I knowwww – Coe and Co!) I flew out to Portland the day before Jerry’s gathering on Friday, 6 Jun 2014 where Kinjie picked me up and we started on our journey to Jerry’s. On the way up there, Kinjie took me on a little detour to visit another local grower, The Professor. What a way to start a wonderful weekend full of carnivorous plant goodness. (See previous post.)
It was amazing seeing plants, but it was definitely awe inspiring to to meet many other fellow growers and carnivorous-plant-o-philes in person! I am very thankful that I got to meet so many amazing people on this epic weekend.
Below you’ll find a short video (gotta love Jerry’s reaction!) as well as a slideshow and some highlight photos.
Kinjie – thanks so much for helping make this happen, bro. Chiemi, Malia, Bently, and Ipo – a huge thank you for allowing a couple of plant crazed guys into your home. 🙂 Jerry – as always I am filled with gratitude for your hospitality and generosity. I am beyond blessed to know you. Thank you.
I recently returned from a family vacation up in Seattle, WA. I love it up there! While I was up there, I had the privilege of visiting my friends Karen Oudean (Oudean’s Willow Creek Nursery) and Jerry Addington (Courting Frogs Nursery.) While at Jerry’s I had the grand pleasure of meeting Pheadra Dunko and Kinjie Coe. It was great meeting you both! (Brie – sorry I just missed you! Next trip!) I put a short video of clips from each place together above. Hope you enjoy it. Below are slide shows from each nursery, and a few highlight photos from each visit.
Karen and Jerry – Thank you as always for your kindness and hospitality!
Note: If the video is a bit choppy, try turning off the HD by clicking “HD” in the lower right corner.
Back in February I had a nice visit to my other favorite city, Seattle. Whenever there, I always travel out of the city and visit two very good friends and inspirations in my growing: Jerry Addington (Courting Frogs Nursery) and Karen Oudean (Oudean’s Willow Creek Nursery). I took quite a few photos and put together this small montage with only a fraction of the photos and video clips that I took. Bear in mind that these photos were taken in the cold still of winter, and the plants are all still dormant. There were even solid frozen water puddles here and there at Jerry’s place. Snow eventually fell that evening as well, and that’s always nice to this California boy who never sees snow. The pitchers you see are mostly remnants of last years growth. You’ll see a lot of S. purpurea and purpurea hybrid pitchers for example as it’s one plant that can withstand the cold. Even outdoors the S. purpurea’s shrugged off the cold as if it was nothing. At Karen’s place, her outdoor growing areas were covered in frost cloth as an extra precaution to protect the plants. Winter was a nice change of pace to visit Seattle, Jerry, and Karen. Hauntingly beautiful place. But, I must say that visiting their places during active growing season is quite a sight to behold; it’s simply amazing and I hope to return again soon to see it all in it’s full growth glory!
Jerry and Karen – thank you again so much for your kindness and hospitality!
Hello from Seattle again everyone! I don’t know exactly what it is about this place that I love so much. Is it the coffee in this city? Perhaps. It’s a hauntingly beautiful city indeed. Anyway, for now a few photos to share with y’all.
[The Needle]
Yesterday, I did get a chance to visit a couple great friends and Sarracenia inspirations to me – Jerry Addington and Karen Oudean. It’s always great to see them and reconnect. I am always awestruck and dumbfounded whenever I visit them, it’s just amazing stuff happening at their nurseries. (I’ll add a post later on with more photos and perhaps even video.)
Now, It’s very early in the season and pretty much all of the Sarracenia up here are dormant versus the active growth I have back home. Heck, today it was snowing. Snowing! For me this is a big deal – I don’t get snow where I live. I was watching the white flurry fall from the sky in utter amazement.
[A field of Sarracenia purpurea – Jerry Addington’s Courting Frogs Nursery]
[A few Sarracenia still looking good- Karen Oudean’s Willow Creek Nursery]
I only have a couple days left here in Seattle – and I am savoring every moment of it. Sleepless in Seattle I am, for I am in love with this city.
A special THANK YOU to Jerry Addington and Karen Oudean for your hospitality, generosity, kindness and inspiration. Thank you so much!
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Jerry. And that shirt tho.
Trophy house.
Kinjie and Ron admiring the plants.
5:37 AM at Jerry’s. Beauty.
Kinjie in effect.
Ugh. I just love this leuco! Short stubby lid, and it’s pubescent!
This one is for you, Jenn.
Sarracenia on the road – Mt. Shasta in the back ground!
Had to share this shot. On the road back home, we were in Shasta County somewhere. It was 107°F and the sky was falling.
#SelfiesWithJerry!
