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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 ...

February Garden

 


 

 It is turning out to be a very mild February. 

Crocus beginning to appear

 

 

Sarcococca (Sweet Box)

 

Snowdrops (Galanthus)

Cotoneaster 'Mooncreeper'

Hebe 'Pretty in Pink' and
Northern Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)



Clematis 'Bill MacKenzie'

Euonymous albomarginatus

Cedrus deodora 'Feelin' Blue'

 African Boxwood (Myrsine A. 'Scarlet Marglin')


Pinus contorta 'Chief Joseph'

Thymus praecox (either 'Nutmeg' or 'Coccineux')


St. John's Wort (Hypericum inodorum 'Pumpkin')    


Parahebe perfoliata

 

 


Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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