SERIOUS TOOLS FOR GARDENERS
Vintage Granny Chic is how shop co-owner Dani Correa,
who was born and raised in Hood River, describes the pickings at APPLE GREEN (413 Oak St., 541-386-4222 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), the gardeners’ paradise that she owns with her mom, Cheryl Wilson.
Serious rose growers and landscape professionals will make a beeline for the high-quality garden tools in the back of the shop such as the Sheffield, England-made Burgon & Ball line ($24 for a stainless steel Shrub Rake; $40 for a Bonzai Trimmer) that’s been around for the last 275 years. Spear & Jackson is another old English line that’s available here ($75 for a pitchfork). You’ll also find stylish Womanswork gloves ($24), which are made to fit a woman’s hands.
   Not that you need a plot of land to buy something in this artfully arranged, Granny Smith-hued shop. Trapp Private
Gardens perfumed candles, fruit-imprinted tablecloths and Veggie Heads reproduction flour-sack-cotton dishtowels ($11.50) will transport the garden into any space.

WHERE RUSTIC MEETS MODERN
If you’re among the anti-antler chandelier crowd who likes your interiors to say rustic and modern, be sure to stop in  RED FEATHER MERCANTILE (311 Oak St., 541-386-7341), a furniture and home accessories store that also has a design center upstairs.
  “We work with local designers, contractors and homeowners,” says manager Rheva Wren, standing amid swatches of finishes near a display of Stone County Ironworks hardware and hooks ($53 for a double-twist hook). “We can project-manage a custom home from start to finish, from floor to ceiling—and everything in between.”
  Downstairs, a highly stylized Canadian-made Bison Head ($98) in rusted steel looked “Brokeback Mountain” modern. But it didn’t stop us in our tracks the way these brown-glazed plates (left) did. Mississippi-based ceramic artist Richie Del Watts creates the line of eye candy as The Good Earth Pottery ($30 for a Little Pagoda Plate in Ostrich, Caramel or Cappuccino; $235 for a large Couped Charder).
“Aren’t they exquisite?” asks sales associate Lee Taccogna, who’d unpacked the dishes recently. “I just want to have a hot fudge sundae on them!”

COOKING ACCOUTREMENTS–AND A DARN GOOD CAFE
Whether you’re in search of a Schott Zwiesel beer glass ($13) or a club sandwich ($9.95) and an order of beer-battered onion rings ($4.95), ANNZPANZ (315 Oak St., 541-387-2654 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) delivers.
  The left half of the store is a popular cáfe that serves up the fixings of Jim Jordan (right), a former chef at Skamania Lodge. Watch out for the display case when you pay up: It’s filled with goodies and topped with baskets of blood-sugar boosters such as Hood River-made Blissful Brownies ($3 for a German Chocolate square). The right side of the shop shelves quality cookware and culinary accesories such as an All-Clad Roti Pan (on sale for $199), an L-Press Citrus Juicer ($149) and the Canadian line of Cucina products.