More South Portland Study Weekend Gardens, pt. 2
The last three gardens on last Saturday's tour included a large shade garden, a tropical oasis and an Asian-inspired retreat. First, the Hilderbrand garden in Oregon City. This garden is set in a grove of Douglas Fir trees and has paved pathways that meander through plantings of dogwoods, hydrangeas, viburnums, kalmias and other shade-loving plants. The garden of Michael Hicks and Megan Big John is a quarter-acre plot in West Linn. This garden is packed with plantings of tropical plants with big beautiful leaves and vibrant pops of color. Helena Wagner's "4 Seasons Garden" is a garden that I have visited in the past. It features an Asian-inspired theme with beautifully placed plants, with nice colors and contrasts. Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy
The white cloud, which is also in our creek bottom, could possibly be Ageratina altissima, aka white snakeroot? Ours is happy with its buddy New York ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, and good old goldenrod.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful drive through the outback. Lovely wild flowers. I don't know the names of all of them but there are a lot of the same blooming around here.
ReplyDeleteTerrific pictures! I had forgotten how pretty it is here on back roads.
ReplyDeleteI love this post and your photos of the country. I, too, love to drive back roads. My parents always took us on Sunday drives in the country although we always lived in suburbia. Your pretty pictures bring back some good memories.
ReplyDeleteThe pumpkin face really makes me smile! Great pictures.
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So beautiful! It looks like the more rural parts of VA. :o)
ReplyDeleteI haven't actually seen swamp sunflower growing in the wild, those big stands of it are beautiful. The plant with the feathery foliage is dog fennel.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, beautiful pictures. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteWhile I dearly love a cultivated garden, this has to be one of my favorite posts. I just love rural countrysides and wild meadows. This looks so much like the Ohio countryside where I live. I dearly love this quiet kind of beauty.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. Don't you just love fall? It's starting to look similar here too, but we're a bit colder, and further along by about three weeks. Have a great week!~~Dee
ReplyDeleteSweetbay, thanks for the ID!
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely. Back roads are best--"blue highways", someone called them.
ReplyDeleteI had a chance to head west yesterday towards Williamsburg. It looks exactly like the pictures you have shown.
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