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Clark County Mini-Tour

It is a rare rainy day here in August (or more accurately, a wet, drizzly day). That means a break from watering and a good chance to catch up on blogging and other computer-related tasks. Before I continue with my England tour highlights, I wanted to share photos from this past Sunday's mini-tour of four gardens here in Clark County (an event sponsored by HPSO - Hardy Plant Society of Oregon). I saw three of the gardens on Sunday. I had already visited the fourth one, Lynne Heidsiek's native habitat garden, when she was part of the Study Weekend tour that we were on.  Our first stop was the marvelous shade garden of Margaret Stapenhorst. A bluestone patio is surrounded by towering mature trees that shade a woodland garden. There was a fern table and a moss garden, as well as garden art by Steve Farris. Loved, loved the waterfall. This is what I'd like to do in our front garden, but I don't know if we have the room. Just a few streets over is the garden of Eloise and Bo...

Rain, glorious rain!


I'm doing a big happy dance today because last night we got 4" of rain! I went to bed grumpy because it had thundered and rained around us all evening and all we got was a sprinkle. This is not the first time this has happened. Anyway, I was awakened by a severe thunderstorm around midnight. This morning - a big 4" - and possibly some more tonight?

I was talking to my friend Rebecca last night who said that she was going to do a nude rain dance. I must call and thank her for that!



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  1. Hey,I know how you feel. We got some rain too after ages and ages of not getting anything (like all summer). Soooo happy now.

    Nice garden photos! Cheers, Yvonne

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  2. Hi Phillip and thanks for visiting my blog. Your rain photos are very nice. I like the hardscapes in your garden. Nothing like a birdbath to show off the beautiful rain!

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  3. Hi Phillip,

    I see by your post here that you had a 'frog strangler. ' I hear from my friends nearby you that you've had the worse drought in history. I did a post on it today and was wondering if you could tell us how you've managed to keep your beautiful garden alive.

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