27 June: HPSO Study Weekend—Wright garden
Jul 8, 2015 by Tangly Cottage
Saturday, 27 June 2015
Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend, Portland 2015

Wright garden


from across the street

Allan’s photo

The garden provides privacy from a busy street and a bar and other businesses.

in the curbside garden

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Every time I go garden touring in Portland, I remember that of all my Eryngiums, I still do not have giganteum.

By the time I remember, it’s always gone from the nurseries I visit.
(If anyone wants to send me seeds, my address is Tangly Cottage, PO Box 278. Ilwaco, Wa 98624 😉 )


curbside garden

Eryngium ‘Jade Frost’

I think Todd told me what this is, but I have already forgotten.

plant appreciation

between sidewalk and house foundation

at the garden entry

Allan’s photo

arching fronds over the entry way


Allan’s photo

entering the garden (Allan’s photo)

(Allan’s photo)

Allan’s photo

into the garden

by the back deck

Allan’s photo

A roughly circular path guides people around the garden.

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

at the back of the garden

to my left: the center bed

further along

To my right, I spy a little work area tucked in, always of interest.

the corner with the pagoda

hosta in the shade

looking back from the pagoda

by the pagoda, against the fence, just the kind of bamboo that I want…

with fabulous stripes…

that seem to alternate with each section.

densely planted

overhead

another shady corner

another perfect hosta


coming up the other side of the path

Allan’s photo


on the back deck

looking out into the garden from the deck
I decide to take another stroll around the garden.





Allan went up onto the front porch that overlooks the street.

Allan’s photo

outside: city streets

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

back to the sidewalk garden








another eryngium



by the stairs


looking back from the corner

used to have this alstroemeria, saw it at Xera yesterday, did not buy it, wish I had…
I could happily have gone all around this garden again, but we had three more gardens to see and time was ticking away. Next: We revisit the JJ De Sousa garden, which we also saw during last year’s Garden Bloggers Fling.
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Another amazing garden. I look at this garden, then up at my garden, and realize I have so much work to do.
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I always come home full of ideas, most of which I fail to accomplish. Like digging up all the brown dry front garden grass paths and replacing with gravel.
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Sounds like a huge project. What did you eventually do, go inside and rest, because that is what I would have done, in fact I might do that now because it made me tired just thinking about it.
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I read books instead of digging sod. And now the sod. is hard like concrete. And by next winter books will beckon again.
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This is my favorite so far. What an oasis! It must sound amazing with a breeze rustling the forest grass and the bamboo.
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Could have gone round this one many more times.
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like! Azara variegata ? Oakleaf hydrangea looking plant, but not positive???
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I do think that was Azara v. I wonder if was some kind of hydrangea paniculata??
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