Touring on Study Weekend, hosted by Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group The garden we almost skipped due to time factors ended up being the one I most wished was my own. It was only eight years old in 2008, on 2.5 acres, with “a perennial garden, heath and heather beds, lavender grid, formal vegetable garden [...]
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22 June 2008, touring gardens near Eugene
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, gardening, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, private gardens, water, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Study Weekend Touring, hosted by Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group Feeling the anxiety of getting all the tour gardens properly seen before the end of the day we next drove to a hillside garden. A lion’s face greeted us as we entered. I think that this is the garden and creation of Byan Lauber. The [...]
flashback: 22 June 2008 — touring a woodland garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, hardscaping, perennials, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, plants, private gardens, shade gardening, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Study Weekend Touring, hosted by Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group After a Saturday filled with lectures, Sheila and I spent Sunday touring more Eugene gardens. The first was a huge lot behind this house: An entry patio to the right of the above had different types of small stones set into a grid. Beyond is [...]
flashback: 20 June 2008 — garden touring in Eugene, day one
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, gardening, hardscaping, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, private gardens, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
study weekend touring, hosted by the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group The wonderful study weekend featured Dubliner Helen Dillon as the keynote speaker and tours of many Eugene gardens. Sheila and I noticed while garden touring on Friday that too many of the first few gardens had the same feeling about them, as if the same [...]
flashback: 19 June 2008 — Dancing Oaks Nursery
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, Dancing Oaks, garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, magnolia, nurseries, water features on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
At last, on the day before study weekend, I visited Dancing Oaks. I had been hearing and reading of this nursery for years. No one could have been a better companion for this excursion than my friend and sister horthead Sheila. I forgot to photograph a couple of the features that stuck in my mind. [...]
flashback: 24 June 2007: more amazing gardens
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Bloomtown, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, Jeffrey Bales, Nancyland, Portland Oregon on February 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Hardy Plant Study Weekend, Sunday: more amazing gardens Sunday we made it to the lecture hall before 8 A.M. With diabolical cleverness, the organizers got the audience there in time by giving away door prizes before each lecture…wonderful plants and garden gear and literature (none of which we won, sadly.) Three lectures later , we [...]
flashback: 22 & 23 June, 2007 — a weekend of revelations
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Dulcy Mahar, garden touring, gardening, gardens, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, Lucy Hardiman, Woodland Way Nursery on February 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend, Friday and Saturday What a joy it was to be among plant nuts…all but Sheila strangers to me except for the lovely Lucy Hardiman, from whom I have taken a couple of workshops…but it did not matter that we knew almost no one as we all had so much in [...]
25 June 2011: Hardy Plant weekend tours: Jeffrey Bale
Posted in 2011 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, private gardens, tagged garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, Jeffrey Bale, painted ladies, pebble mosaics, Portland Oregon, secret gardens on June 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’d been to Jeffrey Bale’s garden four years earlier and was thrilled to get to return. He has two brightly painted houses, is famed for his pebble mosaics, and has the most lovely grotto in his back yard. Because of the clear warm day, the back yard oasis had carpets and pillows out, unlike four [...]
25 June 2011: Hardy Plant Study Weekend — gardening neighbours revisited
Posted in 2011 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, tagged garden touring, gardening neighbours, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, Linda Ernst and Joanne Fuller, plants, Portland Oregon gardens, privacy screens, water features on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Joanne Fuller and Linda Ernst gardens Four years ago these two next door gardens were on the tour and I rhapsodized about how wonderful it would be to have such a neighbour and how it reminded me of the book Gardening from the Heart. Some changes had been made to each garden. I’m sure one [...]
25 June 2011: Hardy Plant Study Weekend tour, part three
Posted in 2011 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, tagged bees, chickens, garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, Portland Oregon gardens, vegetable gardening on June 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
garden three The third stop on the tour pleased us with its interpretive signs. Down at the end of one of the parking strip gardens of the corner lot, I could see other tourists reading something. It turned out to be a poetry pole. Euphorbias spilled over the wall as garden tourists walked back from [...]
