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Study Weekend Garden Tours - Southeast & North Portland - pt. 1

Despite all the work and hoopla of preparing for our open garden on Monday, I did manage to steal away on Friday and Saturday to visit the gardens in Portland. There were six gardens on Friday, located in the Southeast and North Portland neighborhoods.  Beginning with the first three - Jenn Ferrante garden - Cool and calming, an oasis of serenity with pinks and blues and touches of chartreuse. And a majestic weeping beech. Peter Eastman and Dayrol Griffin garden - another colorful oasis with many tropical touches and a well-executed street border planting. Anne Davis & Miles McCoy garden - This small garden packs quite a punch with borders, potted plants and artistic touches. Check out that pathway! More to come... Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

My new article

I have an article in the April issue of Alabama Gardener. It is a garden profile of John and Lynn Ingwersen's garden in Killen, Alabama (just outside of Florence).

Here are a few photos that I took of their garden last year (some of these appear in the article, some don't) -








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  1. Nice pics! You can tell a lot of work goes on in that yard.

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  2. Great pics of a lovely garden. Congrats on getting an article published!

    Found your blog via Faire Garden.

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  3. Phillip,

    Are you a garden writer and librarian? Good photos, very fine garden.


    gail

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  4. Congratulations on the article, Phillip! I like the vegetable garden with the rosemary and brick edging around the corn... guess those are chives flowering? It looks like a good place to spend time.

    Annie at the Transplantable Rose

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  5. Thanks Wayne!

    Yolanda, thanks for visiting - please come again.

    Gail, my full time job is librarian. Writing about and photographing gardens is a new venture, just something to do on the side. Maybe I can retire early and have this to fall back on. It is sure more fun than my full time work.

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  6. Congrats on the article! Love the photos, especially the Autumn pic with the water.

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  7. Beautiful pics! I need to subscribe to that magazine.

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  8. All that and a windmill too!

    Awesome garden.

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  9. That is a beautiful garden. Congratulations on the article.

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  10. Congrats on your beutiful garden, it absolutely belongs in a magazine!

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  11. Phillip, we just got our first issue last weed and we found your article and photos. We were just tickled that you were in our first one. Good Job!

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  12. Lovely garden, Phillip. It certainly deserves recognition. Congrats on being published.

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