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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...

Late winter arrangement



We are having a few friends over tonight to watch the Oscars. I picked some camellias, daffodils and hellebores and Michael did an arrangement for the kitchen.

It is winter?? You would not know from the temperatures. Close to 70 today. I felt guilty about not getting out and working but there was too much to do inside. Enjoy the Oscars if you watching!

 

 

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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  1. I love to make arrangements to enjoy indoors almost as much as I like growing them. This is beautiful!

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  2. Well done Michael. This arrangement looks more like spring than winter. Beautiful.

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  3. That is just beautiful! Wish I had Michael's talent!

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  4. Gorgeous arrangements, I bet the aroma is outrageous!!

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  5. Very pretty. I'm not sure what's happened to my camelia's. They are looking sad like they've been through a harse winter. Mary

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  6. Absolutely beautiful!


    Sable

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  7. That's a beautiful arrangement Phillip. Hope the party was fun. gail

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  8. Beautiful arrangement. You'd never know it was the beginning of March here either -- got to 80 degrees here today!

    You asked about the apple trees -- I'm no expert, but here's what we did: sticky fake apples for maggotfly and another trap for other pests too. That's it. I think if you want pretty fruit you probably do have to spray -- we didn't in the past and used the apples for cooking.

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  9. Phillip, Michaeeel, it is one lovely arrangements!

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  10. Absolutely gorgeous!

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  11. wow, that arrangement is absolutely beautiful!

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