So last Saturday was a terrific planty/gardeny day. I spent the morning visiting a renowned local garden that I'd wanted to see for quite sometime. I took a lot of photos, so many that it will be awhile before I tackle going through them and editing them down for a post. Later in the day Andrew and I set out for an open garden event that we'd been invited to on Sauvie Island, Linda Wisner's garden. I always enjoy wandering her large garden and this time it was made even better because I knew friends would be there, including Tamara who had asked about bringing me plants (all I offered in return was empty pots for her to reuse). My haul included Dorycnium hirsutum (hairy canary-clover), Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana (progeny of the plants at Joy Creek Nursery which I visited every time I was at the nursery), and Mimulus aurantiacus ‘Jeff’s Tangerine’... thanks Tamara!
In addition to fantastic sit spots like the one above, there was also a huge quantity of photographable crops; vegetables and flowers...
And then there was the tree with nails...
I asked Linda for the backstory... "That was my beloved Damson plum tree, which died of some mysterious disease. The nails went in to give the clematis I planted at its base something to grab onto. But then the clematis died. So now there's an ornamental kiwi from Windcliff that's struggling to take hold. I hope it eventually grows to cover the tree."
Lots of buzzing and pollinating creatures moving about the garden.
Love the arching allium drumsticks...
Such a super tall gunnera, easily 5ft tall, if not more. I should have asked Andrew to stand next to it for scale.
The "old vegetable garden"...
Brassaiopsis hispida, Linda bought this from me last spring when I was selling at the Dirty Diggers plant sale.
It was so nice to see it happy and know it was living it's best life out on Sauvie Island with a real greenhouse where it would spend winter.
Courtyard tables with food and drink under the grapevines. I love this location so much!
Linda has several large potted plants in the courtyard area, this Manihot grahamii...
A couple of interesting coleus with a dwarf nectarine.
Maybe Begonia T REX® ‘First Blush’?...
Now we're out in the very shady front garden, the first area Andrew and wandered though. I think this is maybe Rhododendron sinogrande?
Plums!
Another sit-spot.
Schefflera delavayi
And the first photo I took upon our arrival at the garden.
Before the garden visit, since we were on Sauvie Island, we swung by Cistus Nursery. I missed their big Summer Extravaganza back in July, since I was in Buffalo. Tree fern! Dicksonia antarctica I assume? Everybody's doing it...
Andrew looked up to the ceiling of this corner pavilion and said "that's art"... I don't disagree.
Several large Hedera canariensis 'Sulphur Heart' for sale. I've long appreciated this plant growing out in the Cistus display garden along the driveway, but don't remember ever seeing it for sale in the nursery.
I'm growing it under the name Hedera colchica 'Sulphur Heart' having been lucky to receive several rooted cuttings from a friend (AI says: "Hedera colchica 'Sulphur Heart' and Hedera canariensis 'Sulphur Heart' refer to the exact same clonal cultivar of large-leaved evergreen ivy. Botanically, it is correctly classified as Hedera colchica 'Sulphur Heart' (Persian ivy), though it has historically been mislabeled in the nursery trade as a form of Algerian ivy (Hedera canariensis)." Take from that what you want...
Now to wander Linda and her husband Chet's garden...
Love the combo of swirly metal and serrated Melianthus leaves.
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Thanks for sharing your tour of that wonderful Sauvie Island garden! I particularly appreciated all the fine sitting spots it offered, something I often ignore when wandering other peoples gardens. I also fixated on the coleus-nectarine combination.
ReplyDeleteSo many nice sit spots! I wish I would have photographed more of them.
DeleteI would do bad things for that Yucca rostrata. *I couldn't load photos at all yesterday on blogger - had to drag them over after texting them to myself, how stupid! What a fun garden, I can imagine sitting under the grapevines with a nice sangria. I'm jealous of those delicious looking plums. Mmm.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like they're trying to make Blogging more and more difficult so we quit. And ya... that Yucca rostrata is HOT!
DeleteLove that Dicksonia and the two headed yucca. My doubled headed variegated
ReplyDeleteYucca I received from Lance Wright, lost its second head(in the process of decomposing) but it is putting out another head. Cerberus yucca?
Cerberus yucca! And actually the one at Cistus has 3 heads too, I just didn't photograph it well.
DeleteIn spite of your frustration with Blogger I assure you the post is just as enjoyable back to front! The haul photo at the beginning briefly threw me but I recovered. I love seeing Mimulus aurantiacus ‘Jeff’s Tangerine’ in Tamara's garden and I hope it does well for you.
ReplyDeleteVery photogenic veggie garden: the veined cabbage leaf is stunning, and although coleus doesn't do well for me, I love the potted combo photo. Maybe I'll try to copy it next year.
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As I said to TZ, it feels like they're trying to make Blogging more and more difficult so we quit. I think I tried to load these photos 5 or 6 times before finally getting them to go, but backwards. Glad the post was enjoyable nonetheless.
Deletevery cool I always liked the idea of an ornamental veggie garden, Food and drinks under the grape arbor would be awesome.
ReplyDeleteYes to both!
DeleteOnce the kiwi gets established it will definitely swallow the dead tree! I have a huge one growing in Spokane and it is a very vigorous vine! Sadly, it has to come down as it is on the property line and our new neighbors need to build a fence for their dogs. One good thing is that we will once again get to see the lovely copper trellis my brother built many years ago when we move the trellis to its new location and I don't plant such a vigorous vine on it this time.
ReplyDeleteThat's looking at the bright side! I do love kiwi vine, with ot without the kiwi, it's gorgeous.
DeleteObviously a very different photo uploading process than WP, but then again I pick the photos I want to use one at a time. I like the nails, very DNA helix.
ReplyDeleteYes! (DNA helix) There was a time I worked on both a Blogger blog (mine) and a WordPress blog (plant lust, and later the HPSO blog), it was rather interesting to see how the two platforms did things. Uploading photos one at a time is a possible solution to this issue, but I can't imagine how tedious it would be!
DeleteI could drag them all in one batch, but sometimes they end up all higgledy piggledy. Honestly, even dragging them over one at a time hasn't been that tedious for me, taking probably less than a minute for even a post clocking in at 40 photos.
DeleteI just did one at a time for a post with 33 photos, it took 8 minutes. In the grand scheme of things 8 minutes isn't much, but I'm such a multi tasker that I hate not being able to just leave them to upload while I do something else. Grrrr.
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