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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 ...
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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