Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Jenn Ferrante's garden, from the HPSO Study Weekend

Back to June and the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon's Study Weekend garden tours. I'd visited this garden previously, in 2014. Five years later I was curious to see what had changed...

From the tour booklet: "Foliage Rules!" on this large corner city lot. The garden owner says that she swoons over chartreuse and dark-leaved plants, and many have found their way home to her garden. Rustic basalt paths lead around the house to a shady plant-filled east side, a private back corner oasis, and through to the sunny west side with a large deck.

The previous views were of the hellstrip, now we enter the garden proper...

Looking to the west, but the preferred flow is to head east first...

...and so we go east...

They're looking up, I thought maybe we were being invited to go up the stairs, but you'll soon see those stairs are creatively blocked.

Pyrossia! I'm experiencing a bit of a pyrossia obsession at the moment.

See, aren't these metal planters a nice way of saying "don't go up there"...

But we can go here, stepping down into the west-side garden.

These are what I most remembered from my first visit five years ago.

I was thrilled to see they were still here.

The booklet specifically mentions them: "The original old terracotta drain tubes that were dug up during garden development have been artfully re-purposed throughout."

I believe these "planters on a stick" were done by the same artist who did the stair-blocking planter (Indio Metal Arts).

Chartreuse and dark foliage...no wonder I love this garden!

I covet this planter too, and was glad to see it was still in use.

Weather Diary, Nov 18: Hi 58, Low 52/ Precip .10"

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14 comments:

  1. Great post about a lovely garden! I've visited this garden too, probably during that same Garden Conservancy tour in 2014, but I didn't recognize it until I saw the drainage tubes. I remember that long planter, made from metal guttering, I think. I seem to recall it was hanging on a fence, or is that a different one? That Pyrossia is really magnificent.

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    1. There's a different one on the fence, kind of hard to see because of the shadows, it's in photo #8.

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  2. I'm enamored by contrasts of chartreuse and dark foliage myself. This garden has a very comfortable, established look about it. I loved those decorative doohickies in the 10th photograph - they accent the plants well without standing out too much.

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    1. Agreed, garden art like that usually calls so much attention to itself, but she placed them just right.

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  3. Nancy L. SarpolaNovember 19, 2019

    Thanks for posting Loree. I was at the tour this summer but saw a LOT of gardens in such a short time it was hard to remember it all! Great foliage combos.

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    1. They do tend to run together don't they?

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  4. Nice use of color and textures. I esp. like the disc planter on the front walk and the mixed planting near the Pyrossia.

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  5. I'm a sucker for chartreuse. This garden pulls it off so well. Quite lovely.

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  6. Sorry I missed this one, lot's of interesting details.Those drain tubes are great !

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  7. It's a real pleaser "visiting" a June garden in the second half of November. I like the very unusual ceramic stakes. Its also cool they reused the terra-cotta pipes; planting in such a narrow margin agains the house could be challenging.

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    1. Yes, those clay pipes are perfect there.

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