Sunday, 26 June 2016
Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend
presented by the Salem Hardy Plant Society
garden 24: an eclectic, artistic garden in Woodburn
This garden’s artistic touches strongly appealed to me along with its selection of interesting plants. The shady nature of the garden was welcome on a 90 plus degree day and also made pocketcam photography difficult. We did our best to do the garden justice.
Hardy Planters who were departing had delighted expressions and said we were in for a treat.
Some free range chickens, including one with a cute topknot, were also around. They were shy and hidden in the shrubbery so I failed to get a photo.
I don’t want to leave this paradise, yet I must. There was one more garden to see (the last one written about in the previous post; it did not take long but I did not know that would be the case) and a three hour drive home.
Takeaways: I need Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’, and a larger lot, and I need to get the salmonberry groves cleaned out to make room for more shade plant collections, and I need more repurposed junk and some stone pillars. Dang it.
You can see more photos here, on The Eye of the Lady, taken with a much bigger camera and with great skill.
the way home
We were interested to learn that there is a trail all the way from Banks to Vernonia.
After a scary drive over the coast range, facing long lines of impatient and pushy drivers heading back to the city after a seaside weekend, we were pleased to enter maritime weather.
Four days, 25 gardens (including the Oregon Garden)! Tomorrow, we will resume publishing just in the mornings, at least until another garden tour day comes up. There are three in the near future, unfortunately all on the same day.
Thank you for thjs comprehensive garden tour. I enjoyed it very much especially the morning AND evening posts. Impossible to pick a favorite but I enjoyed those with views, featured conifers, personal, handmade whimsy such as mosaics, unusual gates, and metal sculpture. The heat seemed significant.
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The heat kind of fried my brain at times on day three. Day one was the best touring and photography weather…and the prequel evening at Oregon Garden the best weather of all once the rain stopped. Thanks for enjoying the twice a day posts instead of finding them annoyingly long and too frequent…always a concern. 😉
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Wow, that was great. Thanks so much for sharing! I wish there were a few garden tours in my location.
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Thanks for reading!
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I absolutely love that garden. Have you seen the photos of it here? https://eyeofthelady.smugmug.com/Private-Gardens/Cheryl/
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No, I was checking her site for photos but hadn’t seen that. I’ll add a link. Her camera is ten times bigger than pocketcam 😉 iso could assuredly deal with the weird bright/dark lighting of that day better.
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I love your photos — I always see details and aspects of the gardens that I don’t see anywhere else!
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Thank you so very much!
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