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
Happy New Year, Phillip! I enjoyed seeing what is succeeding in your garden, though I am very jealous of your mild summers! I discovered Wallflowers a couple years ago. Amazing, they do very well here in Alabama. I grow them through fall, winter and spring like pansies. They will survive the summer but look dreadful.
ReplyDeleteA good word for poison oak: It provides the most beautiful red color in fall in moist areas in the mid-elevation mountains in southern California.
ReplyDeleteLovely! You've got a great knack for color, Phillip. I want to try that Cuphea :)
ReplyDeleteAubretias knock me off my socks when they bloom, and then--I've never solved this at all--they look like heck. Then they bloom and I forgive them again. Traditional companion with them is Candytuft (Iberis), which also drapes, and stays nicer looking, but it is an older look. (It was once THE ubiquitous spring look here--with the Phlox subulata types and Grace Ward Lithodora--pretty much OVER done.) Ericas & Callunas will cascade after some time, as will Helianthemum, Zauschneria, Dianthus. You say this is a tall wall though? There are some large/long cascaders--I can think of several...wondering which sort of look you're after--fat and fluffy like 'Ogon' Spiraea, or straight down like a vine maybe? Xera's got a cool one (vine) for hot-dry...the name escaping me at the moment. Kinnikinnick makes a great spilling form after a few years, drought tolerant, native. If it's a REALLY hot, dry wall...hmmmm. A bit of irrigation would help all of the above, in that situation. Perhaps the Zauschneria best for that.
Alyse, thanks for the suggestions. I think the Zauschneria would work. These are the retaining walls that run along the driveway. Our driveway goes downhill from the street (the garage is under the house) and the front garden area is raised. I want long and cascading plants to drape over them. Bougainvillea would be great but I have yet to get it to winter over.
DeleteI love that you call your plants "winners." I always call my new plants "survivors" and "champions." We have the worst soil (if you want to call it that) in Folsom...basically sand and rocks/boulders...so anything that survived was a champion in my book.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Cerastium candidissimum, Rubus calycinoides “Creeping Raspberry” and/or Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ for spilling over? They grow down to Zone 5. (FYI ideas from Annie's Annuals, but not currently available.) Each offers different textures and colors, and two out of three are drought tolerant.
It will be interesting to see how Zauschneria behaves in your zone by the end of the year. As a native, it typically grows way out of bounds here in CA. I had to search for the most-manageable variety for my garden.
It has been fun watching your garden grow. You must be thrilled.
Thank you for those suggestions. I actually have considered the Rubus. I will take a look at the other two.
DeleteYour flowers are pretty. I can't tell you what would hang over your wall and be pretty all summer. You can grow so many things I could not grow. I hope you get some good suggestions. As to my gardening year past...ugh...I hate to whine but it didn't rain and then we had such a drought. I am hopeful that all the shrubs and trees we planted survive. I will have to wait to see. I am looking forward to this 2018 season of gardening. Right now record cold so I can stay inside and dream.
ReplyDeleteI hope they turn out okay. There is nothing worse than a drought!
DeleteAll the fabulous color in this post really gave me a boost on this white and bitter cold winter day here in Ohio!
ReplyDeleteI never thought of trying to overwinter Cuphea and have always grown it as an annual. I'll drag mine in next year! All of these warm and wonderful colors are just the thing for this cold winter day!
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