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
Yes, signs of fall are abound. Although I have Autumn Joy and Aster blooming everywhere, it's the emerging summer crocus that really brings it home for me. I wandered if you protect Angel's Trumpet indoors for winter? How about the stunning Black-eyed Susan vine?
ReplyDeleteI am planning on putting the Angel's Trumpet in the garage to overwinter it. I just treat the black-eyed Susan vine as an annual.
DeleteThat smaller begonia in pic 1 with the chocolate foliage and the orange blooms really caught my eye-do you know it's name ? I love all the fuchsia blooms you shared -I cut most of mine back a bit last month because they were looking scraggly (did not cut back hard enough in spring this year) and I think I will get a couple more months out of them. I envy you your touch of rain-we have of slight chance of seeing some this week which is early for us here in Norcal.
ReplyDeleteThe name escapes me at the moment but I will think of it and get back to you.
DeletePlease, please, please bring rain and cooler temps with you to Alabama. Your flowers are all amazing but the autumn crocus touched my heart. I had never seen them until I moved to Portland and found them coming up in my grandmother's yard. Miss them.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you can grow them there? I don't remember seeing any.
DeleteSuch a wonderful assortment of blooms you have. It's impossible to pick a favorite. I do envy you your Northwestern climate. This must be a wonderful time of the year there. We'll still have summer until sometime in October.
ReplyDeleteHappy GBBD! Your late summer garden is absolutely fabulous, Phillip. I adore fuchsias and, although they did moderately well in my former garden 15 miles away, the few I have in pots in my shade house are truly pitiful by comparison to yours. My Erigeron is looking sad after our long dry stretch too but I hope they'll spring back as yours have once cooler temperatures return. I recently planted Clematis 'Rooguchi' and my fingers are crossed that it survives and thrives.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is looking gorgeous, Phillip! The fuchsias, roses...(Chinatown is so pretty!)...and I'd never heard of that tree, either. Very interesting, will have to do a bit of research on that beauty. Just lovely!
ReplyDeleteSpectacular blooms...some of the blooms that are not possible in my hot and dry climate...liked the arrangement of begonias and coleus .Fuchsia can only be grown as an annual in our hot environment ...never seen that variety of salvia...Torch lily or kniphofia is rare beautiful lily .We cant think of growing clematis 'Rooguchi' they dont survive our hot summer days..Happy bloggers blooms day..
ReplyDeleteSo many pretty blooms. The Chinatown Rose is so yummy.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever run by your previous garden in Alabama to see what they did to it?
Your garden blooms are beautiful Philip! The colors on the Crape Myrtles, Caryopteris and Asters are magnificent and I love how you have combined warm and cool colors for maximum impact. Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a note that you were there. Now I can bookmark your wonderful blog as one of my places to visit!!
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