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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

Hints of Fall



A weekend of hazy skies from distant fires and hot and humid days. But change is in the air and we even got a trace of rain - a whopping 0.4 inch - overnight Sunday. 

I can feel the change and I love it. A crisp feeling in the air, overcast skies and, when the sun is shining, stark shadows and lazy rays from the sun. I love autumn almost as much as I love spring.

All these elements are especially noticeable in the early morning sunlight -













Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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  1. Your fall garden is both colorful and relatively floriferous, Phillip. With our long heatwave behind us at last, I'm hoping it'll feel more like fall here soon too but then we often more blasts of heat well into October.

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  2. Fall is my favorite season too. The blooming Persicaria in the first photo is splendid.
    chavli

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