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Clark County Mini-Tour

It is a rare rainy day here in August (or more accurately, a wet, drizzly day). That means a break from watering and a good chance to catch up on blogging and other computer-related tasks. Before I continue with my England tour highlights, I wanted to share photos from this past Sunday's mini-tour of four gardens here in Clark County (an event sponsored by HPSO - Hardy Plant Society of Oregon). I saw three of the gardens on Sunday. I had already visited the fourth one, Lynne Heidsiek's native habitat garden, when she was part of the Study Weekend tour that we were on.  Our first stop was the marvelous shade garden of Margaret Stapenhorst. A bluestone patio is surrounded by towering mature trees that shade a woodland garden. There was a fern table and a moss garden, as well as garden art by Steve Farris. Loved, loved the waterfall. This is what I'd like to do in our front garden, but I don't know if we have the room. Just a few streets over is the garden of Eloise and Bo...

Wildlife Botanical Garden


I made another visit to the Wildlife Botanical Garden in Brush Prairie, about 15 minutes from our house. We had visited earlier in 2018. Since that time, it was not surprising to see that things had really grown. I was looking over the photos from my earlier post and I didn't even see certain plants this time (for example, the Mimosa tree). 

Fall flowers, like rudbeckia and asters dominated -





Most of the plants were labeled but not all. I would like to know what this plant is - an aster I'm guessing but not sure which one.


Also, this beautiful pine.

Plants that I did recognize -

Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)

Abelia 'Frances Mason'

Bluebeard (Caryopteris)

Red Bark Dogwood (Cornus alba) 

Dwarf Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea 'Kelseyi)

Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli)

Hydrangea paniculata

Sweet Crabapple (Malus coronaria)

Persicaria but not sure which one it might be

Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)

Scouler's Willow (Salix scouleriana) - Oh I wish I had room for this!
Japanese Anenome 'Honorine Jobert'




Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy




Comments

  1. What a wonderful place to have so close to home!

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  2. Just 15 minutes away, what a great place to have a walk. That pine is perfection!

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