I’ve always loved an excuse to go to the airport. Any airport! I just love watching an airplane take off and thinking about all the fabulous discoveries that lay ahead for some of the passengers. Are they off to Europe? New York? Phoenix and a gorgeous desert landscape? Even though I came of traveling age when the romance of flying was all but gone I still understand the concept, and embrace it. Especially when you can walk out of the airport and come face to face with a wall of green.
So beautiful!
And lush…
These plantings on the side of the parking garage at Portland International Airport provide the perfect welcome to Portland. And help to keep the romance of flying alive, at least for me.
For more fabulous foliage visit Pam's blog
Digging...
So beautiful! 
And lush…
These plantings on the side of the parking garage at Portland International Airport provide the perfect welcome to Portland. And help to keep the romance of flying alive, at least for me. 
For more fabulous foliage visit Pam's blog Digging...
That lush wall of foliage was my first impression of Portland. No, actually, my first impression was looking out the window before my airplane descended and seeing those three stunning mountains rising above the clouds. Wow! Portland definitely has a way with dramatic hellos.
ReplyDeleteLove it Loree! Vertical gardening made simple :)
ReplyDeleteGosh it's been ages since I've been to the Portland airport. I love this wall of foliage but I wonder, if it's deciduous, how it looks in the wintertime.
ReplyDeleteLoree,
ReplyDeleteSo funny to see this right now! I have been putting off purchasing a roundtrip ticket to San Francisco for my bday because I would much rather drive. After looking into flying with plants, and having seen so many at the Fling participants packing plants, I think I am done pouting. Ruth Bancroft Garden, here I come! And dear old Annie's Annuals, you're going to challenge my packing abilities...
We need such creativity to green cities!!
ReplyDeleteSuper Envious! I wish LAX had something like this.... I wish any buildings here had something like this :/
ReplyDeleteThese plantings took a long time to establish (with lots of carping from nay-sayers). I hope they have all been back to look at them now. Thanks for capturing it so well. Best airport in the world!
ReplyDeleteHow Cascadian! I wish my climate even allowed such trailing growth, let alone might we have such cool spaces. Opuntias get a bit heavy doing that...
ReplyDeleteThat foliage wall just gets better every year. I remember when it first went in, it took quite awhile to get going, and I wonder if the gardeners replaced some less robust plants with new ones. Now it's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love those airport plantings...I remember them vividly from when I first visited Portland years ago...I was pretty sure at that very moment I was in the right place ;-)
ReplyDeleteOur local airport and our botanical garden are right next to each other. Unfortunately the garden peace is often interupted by the planes taking off, but there is a great observation deck in the garden overlooking the runway with a live link to the tower. It is a great place to take kids. The airport has borrowed the garden theme and has managed to keep lots of wooded areas, green spaces and monsterous azaleas. It is very unairport-like.
ReplyDeleteThat welcome at your airport is only the beginning of what is to come in terms of greenery and gardens. I hope all who visit appreciate that welcome. We certainly enjoyed our visit tot the rose garden and to the park and to the Saturday market. We didn't queue up for donuts at Voodoo Donuts though!
ReplyDeleteReally good!
ReplyDeletePam, so glad you got to see the mountains!
ReplyDeleteMark and Gaz, and although I've had a hard time tracking down the date of the plantings it would also appear this went in way before the vertical gardening trend hit!
Grace, actually it's beautiful no matter the time of year. I think they did a great job of mixing. There are no bare spots that I remember.
Ann, uhm...maybe have Annie's ship so that you have more room to pack plants from Ruth Bancroft!?
B&K, agreed!
Mary C, I will readily admit something like this is much easier in our climate than yours!
ricki, do you know when they went in? I was talking with a ticket agent who has been at PDX since '97...she knew they had gone in since she started but couldn't remember exactly when.
DD, oh but what danger that would be!
MulchMaid, oh I bet there was quite a bit of trail and error along the way! Do you remember what year it went in?
Scott, glad the plantings helped convince you Portland was the place for you!
Les, this sounds fabulous! Have you ever posted pictures? Will you?
Lancashire Rose, nor have I! (Voodoo).
Hoover, thank you!
Now THERE'S a good way to make soulless buildings like airports much more welcoming. More cities should follow suit and transform their airports into buildings with green walls and roofs. Great photos!
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