Day one of a week touring gardens and nurseries in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a clue to our first stop after landing in Portland, Oregon.
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Obviously, this can only be Loree’s incredible garden (the Danger Garden), which we toured the day after it appeared in Apartment Therapy.
Couple quick impressions. Loree's exquisite garden fuses a love of design and plants and manages to balance these twin passions to create an incredibly rich and exciting horticultural experience. Concentrating on dramatic, architectural plants, whether planted in the garden or in one of her many carefully chosen containers, is one of the keys to the garden's allure. Because Loree rejects the notion that a plant is only interesting when in bloom, the garden deftly sidesteps the typical preoccupations of a traditional summer garden with "flower color" and instead builds up and sustains a lush, atmospheric mood with plants chosen for their stunning good looks in or out of bloom. Many of the tender and borderline hardy plants require elaborate protective strategies to make it through a rainy and sometimes frosty Portland winter. It is an astonishing vision born out of a deep love and knowledge of plants married to a strong devotion to good, clean design, with a single-minded refusal to compromise either.
Loree, it was simply fabulous. (Lila, it was a treat to finally meet you too.)
Lila and her garden are beautiful! Loree is pretty cool, too.
I showed Lila her cute mug on my laptop which then had her looking behind the screen trying to find out where the rest of the dog was.
So glad you and your fun group could make the stop, it was wonderful! Which I could have traveled on with you…
(make that wish, not which)
I’m so glad to catch this reportage. Wishing I could be there, but can follow along at least while I count the days until my grandchild’s arrival. THANK YOU!
Envious here!
So jealous! wish I was there!
Your bonding moments with Lila paid off Denise.What a charmer she was !
That must have been fun! Lila is a doll.
Thank you Loree for sharing your fabulous garden with us! What a perfect kick off to a week of garden touring.
I love seeing Loree’s photo tour of her garden on her blog recently, and then featured in Apartment Therapy. What a rock star! And now your unique, beautiful take–both through your eloquent narrative and photos. You must be having a ball!!
What an apt description of Loree’s garden, which I had the pleasure of visiting last summer. I couldn’t stop darting through her garden, camera in hand, trying to capture every beautiful and fascinating vignette that she’d put together. And, oh, your photo of Lila is so adorable.
I burst out laughing at your pic of pugnacious Lila! It’s perfect! So glad you got to see Loree’s gorgeous garden.
@Loree, it was such a pleasure to see you again, and your garden and Lila for the first time. Huge thanks and hugs.
@So glad you all joined me for a tour of the DG!