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
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Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Anemone coronaria 'Marianne Blue' is spectacular - I will look out for that one! I didn't realise hummingbirds love Ribes - if only we got hummingbirds here, I would be out with my camera trying (and failing) to photograph them. Wishing you a happy GBBD.
ReplyDeleteYou have so much blooming already Phillip! Love seeing all this color. I would love to find a blue/purple corydalis for my garden. I wonder if they are as prolific as the native one?? I have tried growing wall flowers before. They are very short lived here. I always figured the heat got them. Maybe it was just their nature. Happy GBBD.
ReplyDeleteHappy GBBD Phillip! The purple and orange wallflower combination is gorgeous as are all your blooms. If you like variegated foliage, check out rhododendron 'Super Flimmer.' The flowers are a bit ho-hum but the foliage is fantastic. R. 'President Roosevelt' also has nice variegated foliage and gorgeous pink and white flowers. 'Roosevelt' can be a bit of a weak plant as far as leaning over though.
ReplyDeleteOh Phillip, your first photo of the wallflowers is wonderful. I've had them in my garden here and they came back for several years but slowly declined. I just found some on the clearance shelf and snatched them up but their roots looked kind of pitiful. I'm hoping the 3+ inches of rain that we got overnight give them much more interest in living. You have such wonderful diversity in your plantings. I miss that giant spurge - had it in my Portland postage stamp front yard and it was such a statement every year.
ReplyDeleteWho would have thought that purple and orange would look so good together? Yay for the wallflowers.
ReplyDeleteI like wallflowers too, and that combo is great. That area of your garden must smell wonderful too, I love their scent. They do tend to look a bit ragged after a few years. Maybe they're only short-lived because gardeners get fed up with how they look and yank them out. I'm jealous of your Camellia 'Nuccio Bella Rossa,' I've been looking for one. Oh, my Ribes sanguineum, which started as single whips 9 years ago, are now about 10 feet tall. They're taking up a lot of space in my garden, but it's my favorite of our PNW native shrubs, so I keep them.
ReplyDeletePhillip, your blooms are so different from mine now. It's like getting a whole new lesson in flowers. Happy Bloom Day.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteYou have such beautiful blooms and they are all so wonderfully photographed! The wall flower combination is gorgeous. Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteOh, so much in bloom! I am ready for spring and it is taking its time about getting here.
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Phillip, one would never know you are not native to the PNW. You've embraced all our early spring beauties with zeal! All of your blooms must be so cheerful when we (occassionally) get a touch of sunshine :) Happy GBBD!
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see what is growing in the PNW, as opposed to Alabama. I truly adore the Erisymum 'Bowle's Mauve' and 'Apricot Twist' combination. I grew wallflowers for the first time a couple years ago. They flourished through a fall and winter and spring, then limped through the summer. I finally pulled them up and would have replanted again last fall but could not find any.
ReplyDeleteSo many lovely blooms! The orange and purple combo is gorgeous. I wonder if wallflowers will grow in my zone 5 garden. Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteOh my, wonderful. And always wonderfully photographed. My 'Nuccioss Bella Rossa' perished in the drought. What a beauty yours is. Enjoy it for me, please.
ReplyDeleteThe purple and orange is shockingly stunning. Congrats for being able to pull it off and get them blooming at the same time. Seems like your spring is a month ahead of everyone else ... and with no weird weather.
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Lovely flowers and colors throughout your garden, it is definitely ahead of my own.
ReplyDeleteI love the fiery-orange flowers of Flowering Quince but seem to think it usually bloom on bare branches... I'm surprised to see that your had leafed first.
I have never seen such magnificent Anemone,that rhododendron looks spectacular ,seems you have amazing collection of flowering perennials.
ReplyDeleteHooray for the Ribes sanguineum!! (You know I love the natives... but I think that would be a favorite even without native status...)
ReplyDeleteWow Philip, just wow! There’s something about the climate there that just seems to be ideal for so many flowers. I must visit your area in the spring some day.
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