Garden Tour

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,…