Tag: Garden Bloggers Fling
A City Garden for People and Critters
So another garden that we visited during the Portland Garden Bloggers Fling was that of Tamara, who writes the blog Chickadee Gardens. I liked that this wildlife-friendly garden is on a 50’x100′ city lot. The front has a pleasing mix of small trees, perennials, annuals, and grasses. In the parkway the mix of plants looks …
Floramagoria Part II
Floramagoria, a private Portland garden I discussed in the last post, has a lot of stuff that can make you smile, even giggle. But this garden is not all giggles, no. It is a seriously gorgeous garden. The front garden is quite attractive, in a restrained sort of way. It gives you no clue of …
Quirkiness Supreme at Floramagoria
Floramagoria is a remarkable private garden we got to see during the Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland back in July. The garden was striking for its design and combination of beautifully grown plants. But it also contains a highly concentrated and entertaining dose of whimsy. There is so much in this garden that I’m doing …
The Portland Japanese Garden
We visited the Portland Japanese Garden as part of the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling. I wouldn’t put Japanese gardens at the top of my list of favorite gardening styles. However, I’m very glad I was able to spend some time in this tranquil place. The Portland Japanese Garden is actually five different gardens on 5.5 …
Cistus Nusery: Another Reason to be Jealous of Portland Gardeners
Cistus Nursery is a “retail micro-nursery” located 15 miles from Portland, Oregon. It was another nursery that we visited as part of this year’s Garden Bloggers Fling. Cistus emphasizes plants for a Mediterranean climate and hardy tropical plants, so it has fewer plants that would fit into my own garden than you might find at …
Little House on the Portland Prairie
We saw a lot of wonderful gardens during the 2014 Garden Bloggers’ Fling in Portland this past July. If I had to pick one favorite, however, it would be Rhone Street Gardens. This is a garden where it seems every square inch is bursting with exuberant plant life. The resident gardener at Rhone Street Gardens …
The Mostly Mellow Garden of Westwind Farm Studio
Westwind Farm Studio is one of the places we saw during the first day of the Portland Garden Bloggers’ Fling. It seemed to me, as a Chicagoan, to be a very Portland sort of place, one where you can record music, take yoga classes, smell the fields of lavender, or commune with nature. It’s a place …
Portland’s Lan Su Garden
The first garden we visited as part of the 2014 Garden Bloggers’ Fling was Lan Su, located in Portland’s Chinatown. According to its website, Lan Su is the most authentic Chinese garden outside of China. It was created in the style of a Ming Dynasty “Scholar’s Garden” by craftsmen from Portland’s Chinese sister city of …
A Few More Pictures From the Portland Fling
Rhone Street Gardens The adjoining gardens of Joanne Fuller and Linda Ernst Floramagoria Just today, Judy took 750 photographs. Heading home to Chicago early tomorrow morning. More to come.
Up and Away
Judy took this series of photos of bees on the Tithonia. Here are three I particularly like. One thing about this picture is that it shows very clearly what a composite flower is. What looks like one flower is really a bundle of flowers – you can even see the tiny pistils in each. …
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