Upcoming Plant Sales
There will be FOUR events in the next few weeks, so mark your calendars and be sure to stop by one (or all!) of them. All proceeds help benefit our local schools. Each of the sales will offer native plants (note that some are not on the Portland Plant List). Please see below for more details about each sale! Fort Vancouver High School Plant Sale: Wednesday, April 24, 8am-6pm, Thursday, April 25, 8am-5pm and Friday, April 26, 8am-4pm Native plants available: Trees: Cascara, Oregon White Oak, Vine Maple, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar; Shrubs: Mock Orange, Flowering Red Currant, Red Twig Dogwood, Cascade Oregon Grape, Baldhip Rose, Nootka Rose, Douglas Spirea, Thimbleberry , Serviceberry, Red Elderberry, Blue Elderberry, Black Hawthorn, Salmonberry, Golden Currant, Smooth Sumac, Salal; Groundcovers : Western Yarrow, Wild Ginger, Sword Fern, Goldenrod, Blue-Eyed Grass, Soft Fruited Bulrush, Tufted Hair Grass, Oregon Sunshine, Maidenhair Fern, Checkermallow, Sedum Spat
Lovely story of your Patchouli Phillip ... I have enjoyed the incense over the years but it must be a delight to brush up against your very own plant! Good luck with the overwintering inside... more opportunities for contact and spills of its lovely fragrance. Carol
ReplyDeletePatchouli incense from the 70s! That's what I remember! LOL
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that it could be grown here. I thought it was an exotic Asian plant used to mask the smell of other exotic Asian plants.
Cameron
What a very cool plant! It's not a scent I've ever been able to learn to enjoy, but what an awesome conversation piece! Since lots of people think it's odd that I've underplanted roses with creeping rosemary, I can fully relate to your experience of brushing against a very fragrant plant and getting that burst of scent! Looking forward to seeing how it overwinters...
ReplyDeleteI didn't even realize that patchouli is a plant. Thanks for all that info. Too bad I dont like the smell.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of Patchouli before, sounds very interesting!
ReplyDeleteI always think of Patchouli as the oil that the "granola" types used as perfume or incense. I never even thought about where it came from.
ReplyDeleteSo this is where that scent comes from.
ReplyDeleteYou really should go for it, see if you can get it through winter and bring it into flower next year.
I learnt something new today as they say.
I had never heard of patchouli. It sounds interesting. I have never seen it for sale around here I would imagine because we are out of its growing range.
ReplyDeleteI love the essential oil of patchouli, being a closet hippie. Thank you for this informative post on the plant!
ReplyDeleteThank you also for identifying the camellia on my blog!
Mmmmm I love Patchouli and used to buy it from the Indian stalls in markets for 50p a little bottle of oil and wear it as a perfume. I've moved on from my hippy days now and wear expensive perfume, but funny enough I am often seduced by fragrances that have an undertone of Patchouli without even realising it. I would love to grow some but have never seen it here in the UK as a plant.
ReplyDeletePatchouli is the scent of the late sixties and seventies to me Phillip! Every third person wore it! I preferred flowery scents. Who knew it was an herb and could be grown in the garden!
ReplyDeletegail
I have known 3 people who wore this fragrance all the time, and whenever I smell it their images pop into my head. One used it so much (I think she bathed in it) that I began calling her Patch-Julie.
ReplyDeleteHow cool, Phillip. Like others, I remember that this was the secret scent of the hippie era! I didn't even realize it was a plant, thought it was more of a mixture of things. Hope you can over winter it. I will be on the look out for it, I love that smell, brings back pleasant memories that we won't go into here. :-)
ReplyDeleteFrances
I can remember that scent from college dorms, Phillip... not my dorms, but kids'. We thought the scent it was trying to mask was unwashed laundry...they'd save it up for months to bring home to mom & the free machine.
ReplyDeleteSo patchouli is just one plant? Guess I assumed it was a blend!
Hope yours winters well!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose