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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 ...

Daffodils


The daffodils are blooming along the streetside in front of our house. Every year I tell myself that I should add more but I'm thinking now that hellebores might be pretty sprinkled throughout the bare spots. Regardless of what I add, now is the time to decide where they should go because when the other plants fill out, there is no way of knowing.

Winter lingers with cold temperatures and rainy weather. Hopefully warmer temperatures on the way...

Everybody finds our huge mailbox humorous. I wanted the biggest one that I could find because we mail out and receive lots of packages and the last thing I want to do is stand in line at the post office. Two different mail carriers have told us it is there favorite box on their route. Ha!








Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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  1. I love your mailbox! Ours is pretty large too - and it requires a key to access the contents, which says something about the world we live in. My daffodils are peaking at the moment, after finally getting several days here and there with warmer temperatures. I hope yours follow suit.

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  2. Looks like just barely spring where you are. The Daffs are so bright and cheerful--they must lift the spirits of passers by--and the mail carriers--on cloudy days.

    Mailbox is great--you never know when you'll need to mail order a new plant, and its best to be prepared!

    Here we're several weeks later than last year. I'm fine with that--not looking forward to dry, hot weather.

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  3. The Daffs look great along the fence... so have you marked the spots for either more bulbs or Hellebores?
    Chavli

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