Friday, February 28, 2020

A neighborhood walk yields an update

The sky threatened but I grabbed a jacket and headed out the door anyway, too long setting at my desk hitting computer keys...

I started walking without a destination in mind and ended up here, a garden I first noticed in January of 2019. Back then it was a sea of landscape fabric with a few cool plants tucked in. Things have definitely improved since then...

The spiky characters look much more at home backed by rocks. Agave parryi...

Or even just soil (not cloth). Agave parrasana 'Meat Claw'...

Agave ovatifolia

That's an arctostaphylos (manzanita) but I don't know which one.

I really like the mix of bare soil and gravel, it's a little Roberto Burle Marx.

Walking on I came to this interesting fence. There must be an ADU (accesory dwelling unit, very Portland) tucked in the basement because it had it's own entrance and mailbox here on the side.

I peeked in through the fence.

Walking around to the front of the house...

Nigella seedheads I believe,

That's a nice sturdy support for the wisteria.

Peeking through to the front garden.

Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Red Top’ perhaps?

That's a nice urbanite wall too...


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9 comments:

  1. I love the mixed material used in that fence. I hope you get some blue skies this weekend!

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    1. We were in Seattle Wed-Sat and the skies were lovely!

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  2. I remembered the plastic covered garden from your January post and it's much improved. It's fun to catch a garden while in infancy and follow it's development, especially when it's right in your neighborhood. It's be exciting to see before-and-after shots once or twice a year.

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    1. I will do my best to keep the reports coming!

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  3. I'd love to find a rock mushroom like the one in the manzanita photo! Fun update, thanks.

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    1. I couldn't tell if it was made of wood or rock.

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  4. That's shaping up to be a nice garden. Plant selection implies someone knows what they are doing.

    There's a big push here on ADUs in California.

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    1. Yes! My thought exactly (plant selection).

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  5. Wonderful fences! But i want the home owners to paint that white house a color that is not so stark. Hard to see the garden for the house.

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