On a beautiful, clear day at the end of June, the Garden Conservancy, in partnership with the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, organized 5 open private gardens. We made it to 4 of them, and they were really wonderful. First, we visited the garden of Bill & Charlene Tuttle in Lake Oswego. It was pretty sizable at 1.34 acres, and stretched from the street to…
Every year the Association of Northwest Landscape Designers puts on a tour of a bunch of local (around or in Portland, Oregon) gardens that their landscape designer members have had a part in creating. Happily, there are lots of ways to tour gardens here in Portland (and next weekend is our Garden Conservancy tour!), including the wonderful Hardy Plant Society of Oregon open gardens program,…
We had some epic weather last week (the final week of March) and over Easter weekend. It was 75 and fully sunny. That’s absolutely crazy for Portland in March, and I am not complaining. It gave me a great chance to take some photos of our garden’s progress…
There are some beautiful new plants for 2013, and the lush combination of purple/black foliage, blue-ish foliage, and golden foliage remains a favorite. This container combo would be especially beautiful if done as a symmetrical pair flanking a patio entrance or garden gate. Here are the plants shown above: Belamcanda chinensis ‘Gone with the Wind’ Coleus ColorBlaze® Marooned™ Cedrus deodara ‘MonKinn’ Sedum ‘Cherry Tart’ Can-Can™…
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