Thursday, June 7, 2018

Salem Study Weekend, the Strubel and Crowe gardens

It's my second to last post from the 201 Salem Study Weekend tour...this one is a double shot, two gardens! The first one is the Strubel garden...

"Our garden is a fairly young garden. Each year another area has been developed so that we now have an Aphrodite garden, a woodland garden amongst ancient white oaks), a rhododendron garden, a sunny perennial garden, an extensive lavender bank, and an inviting walk through river birches to the new vegetable garden. What makes this garden unique is the use of numerous rock walls to define areas and to keep the hill under control. All rock work has been done by Michael, including his current project: a large “foodscape” garden. This involves French Intensive gardening as well as combining edibles with ornamentals in unusual ways. This last area is experimental and fun to create and will likely be underway well into summer. Also of note are our expansive valley views to the west and north, including the meandering Willamette River, distant farmlands, and the mountains of the Coast Range."

Whew, that's a lot! I did't manage to photograph it all, and looking at my photos and that description I'm not even sure of what I did photograph...

But it was a nice garden, even if I didn't know what I was looking at.

Oh how the bees loved the Lavender...

And they even had a cute little framed artwork to call their own, should they want to.
The second garden in today's post is the Crowe garden...

"We are continually trying to compress a large country garden onto our city lot! With many ideas and way too much plant lust we are hampered only by space. With a great deal of shade we indulge hostas, ferns, epimediums and their many companions. We fill our sunny patches with roses, lilies, grasses and many shrubs. We're also addicted to Japanese maples and small conifers — which you're just as likely to find in pots as in the ground. Garden art is intriguing. Like treasure hunters we enjoy looking for objects that delight us — as we hope they delight you. End of day will often find us sitting by the pond watching the koi dart and the dragonflies flitting about."

Artemisia versicolor 'Sea Foam'

Chartruese and black, always a good combination. Even when blurry.

Green!

There are things I would change, but I do love the idea of using a metal egress window edge as a garden bench.

Pots sunk into the pond, to keep the fish from munching on the plants?
Dierama pulcherrimum

Aka angel's fishing rod, at the pond's edge, pun intended?

Weather Diary, June 6: Hi 80, Low 52/ Precip 0

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19 comments:

  1. I like that wooden walkway, I bet that prevents a lot of muddy feet. I'm sure the angel's fishing rod hanging over the pond is deliberate, I wish I'd thought of it.

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    1. Wasn’t that just genius? You can steal it...

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  2. Love that walkway through the boggy area and the pot with the Hostas. If you have Koi, they will eat pond plants.

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    1. I guess I’m glad I don’t have Koi!

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  3. I put my tropical bog plants in pots to bring them in for the winter. I suspect you are correct in determining in this situation that they are in pots so they are not destroyed. I have seem koi, however, jump to shore to eat.

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  4. That boardwalk across the ferns is pretty wonderful!

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  5. How I'd love to have that much space to plant en masse! Like Alison, I admired the boardwalk, although I suppose that'd have little usefulness here.

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    1. That shouldn’t keep you (or your husband) from building one!

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  6. That Artemisia 'Seafoam' is making me drool. Lovely gardens where it obviously rains a lot. Yes the pond pots are to protect the plants. Adult koi are vegetarians and have big appetites. I've seen them shove themselves halfway out of the water to eat the grass at the edge of a pond. That they are able to do it without teeth tells you something.

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    1. Well, rains a lot until it doesn’t. Remember we don’t get summer rain. Dry for months...

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  7. A good garden joke wins my heart every thime!

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  8. Sorry to say I am stumped by the metal window egress edge. I am pretty sure that is not a thing here. But whatever it is, I like the bench they made out of it. I would have painted the wood parts black though.And the last photo of the Strubel garden, really nicely done with the placement of those silvery blue Hostas and the matching hues of the oil jar.

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    1. Really? I’ll have to take a photo and send it to you.

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  9. What gorgeous gardens! Amazing views, love the grasses and all the lavender. But - that's a city lot? Can I ask how much space they have?

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  10. Two lovely gardens to tour. I particularly was drawn to the meandering paths at the Strubel garden and the whimsical creativity the the Crowe garden. The angel's fishing rod at the pond's edge is fantastic: kudos for noticing it.

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  11. AnonymousJune 09, 2018

    I'm taking notes.
    rickii

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