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Galega x hartlandii 'Lady Wilson' On Monday, our garden was included in the HPSO Study Weekend. This is a four-day event that includes speakers, plant/art sales and garden tours. The event rotates every two years between the cities of Portland, Seattle, Victoria B.C. and Vancouver B.C. It will be 2033 before Portland hosts again. I toured the Portland gardens on Friday and Saturday and will share some photos in my next post. The weather was perfect on those days. Not so much on Monday, the day for the Vancouver, Washington gardens tour, and by late afternoon, the temperature had reached 94. However, it wasn't too bad in the first part of the day, and that's when we received the most visitors. We didn't have an exact count, but making an estimate based on our guestbook, I would say around 200 people. It was a hectic but fun day! We had a lot of visitors from Seattle and areas north of us as attendees were making their way home. Every time we open our garden, there ...
Now that is much appreciated. Fantastic pics and wish I had even one bloom still here. Thank you for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers and gorgeous captures, Phillip! I did see the little ladybug. The weather has been bizarre.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great surprise...especially that Campanula!
ReplyDeleteHow I wish we could grow camelias... exquisite... Larry
ReplyDeleteI need to go and check my camelias. I haven't walked around and checked thing out since knee surgery. I did go into the greenhouse to water the shrubs I bought on close out and the field mice are chewing the limbs off. I gave the something else to eat and put another one down a couple of days later as the first one was eaten. I need to get rid of them before spring. Two years ago they ate the seeds that I was starting out of the containers and I'm not having that occur again next spring.
ReplyDeleteHave a Merry Christmas Phillip and Michael.
happy Christmas Phillip and Michael, I hope the season is filled with goodness for you both, gail PS pretty flowers.
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays! Thanks for your great gardening posts, always enjoy them. Anne
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Phillip! Lovely to see your beautiful blooms! Sigh!
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Carol
Our Camellias are look good here also. I hope they don't all pop open too soon though. Merry Christmas to you both.
ReplyDeleteWishing you and Michael a "Very Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year".
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Those Bellflowers are exquisite. Exquisite image of the pink camellia too. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
So lucky! I would do anything to be able to grow Camellia here! When i lived in ATL we had so many. Nothing in Nashville winter blooms!
ReplyDeleteGreat photos as usual!
Beautiful blossoms still! Merry Christmas to you and your family, Phillip. May 2012 be kind to us all and bring continued well-being.
ReplyDeleteFlowers on the first day of winter. What a wonderful find!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Phillip.
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