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
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entering the garden (Allan’s photo)
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into the garden
by the back deck
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A roughly circular path guides people around the garden.
Allan’s photo
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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.
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outside: city streets
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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.
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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