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Fort Vancouver Garden

I was not interested in watching the debate last week, so I decided to get out of the house. I've been wanting to visit the Fort Vancouver Garden for years and decided to go on the spur of the moment.  Once I got there, it occurred to me that this was not the peak time to see a vegetable garden but what I did see was interesting and there were quite a number for visitors milling about.  This garden once comprised eight acres and the food grown there fed the Hudson's Bay Company Fort's  residents. Today's garden is a smaller version and the vegetables and flowers grown there are some of the same varieties found in the fort's records. Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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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