An errand had me parking next to
McMenamins Chapel Pub (previously a funeral home built in the 1930’s known as the Little Chapel of the Chimes) so I figured a walk around the garden was in order. First a visit to the Lyonothamnus floribundus (Catalina ironwood)…
Such fabulous bark, and the foliage is pretty sweet as well.
Moss, fern, palm… what’s not to love.
I don’t know what this yellow thready business is, but there were a few small red berries.
Autumn color in full swing…
Mahonia doing their bloom thing.
Flowers and fruit of Arbutus unedo (the strawberry tree).
It does make a bit of a mess.
Parking lot Gingko.
I am at a loss as to the ID of the small tree on the far left…
Maybe a Daphniphyllum?
Abutilon doesn’t stop flowering just because it’s November…
Anyone know the ID of the low rosette?
No one was eating outside on the drippy, cool, day of my visit.
Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Theta’ (I think).
Taxus baccata (I think)
Nearby, Cunninghamia lanceolata ‘Glauca’ with cool cones and fabulous foliage.
Another Trachelospermum climbing the wall and palm, T. asiaticum ‘Ogon Nishiki’
This was an unexpected sighting, Cussonia paniculata.
Not hardy here in Portland, the gardeners must tuck it away for the winter.
Oh, I missed exploring that far corner, must go check it out...
Cryptomeria japonica ‘Rasen’
And a sweet Mahonia eurybracteata.
Berberis some somebody?
In another outdoor dining area, Mahonia gracilipes.
So fabulous!
The paving here was interesting.
I like the small aggregate sections mixed in.
Everyone who can grow them needs at least one Arctostaphylos.
Finally, I had to peek in the gardeners work space behind the building. Always interesting to see the proof of gardeners at work.
Now time to head over to the North Portland library…
And pick up the hold that had me parking there in the first place, I can’t wait to dig in!
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That's a fabulous garden and I'm happy to see that McMenamins saw fit to maintain (and I expect improve) it. I also think it's great that a former funeral home is now a pub! The "yellow thready business" with the red berry made me think of asparagus fern - mine don't turn that yellow but then we don't get as cold that you do. I hope my Ginkgo tree looks that good someday!
ReplyDeleteYep, it's an asparagus of some kind.
DeleteThe amount of green lushness just blows me away. The growbox cage (that those cabbage-like plants are in) is pretty cool. That Mahona gracilipes leaf shape is something else, gorgeous with the pink stalked berries, wow. So many wonderful things to see here, the cone on the Cunninghamia lanceolata ‘Glauca’ looks like an overgrown hops.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, and thanks for the tour! Some sort of asparagus, maybe even just regular old edible asparagus. The small tree is a Pittosporum of some kind, maybe a wide leaf form of illicioides. And the plant under the abutilon looks like Erigeron pulchellus 'Meadow Muffin'.
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