Category Archives: garden visit

I’m still shaking out summer’s pockets for keepsakes, before the memories get cold. I may have stalled on documenting this HPSO-sponsored tour of Gene Rozenboom and Randy Patton’s De Tuin Bij Montmore aka The Garden at Montmore, which I visited … Continue reading →

Since visiting Dairy Creek Meadows earlier in the summer, I’d been thinking now that’s a garden I’d love to visit in fall to catch the seasonal progression of the herbaceous planting. When HPSO sent word that the garden would be … Continue reading →

Theo Margelony moved with his fuchsias from Manhattan to Portland in 2019. Knowledgeable, warm and very friendly, I have bumped into Theo and his partner Kevin Gepford  a couple times on garden tours. Knowing there’d be a warm welcome at … Continue reading →

I first visited Mary and Harlan Courtney’s garden in late July 2022 and wrote about it here. It is a strikingly unique, materials-driven, artfully idiosyncratic approach to managing a slope, where the retaining infrastructure designed by Harlan is as prominent … Continue reading →

On May 30 I visited another fascinating Portland garden through the Open Gardens program of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon. Sometimes the open gardens are closer to me in the farmland surrounding the city, where they of course tend … Continue reading →

Dairy Creek Meadows was one of two gardens I visited last weekend under the HPSO Open Gardens program. Both were familiar to me, one because I had visited it a few years back (the Courtneys’ garden), the other because I … Continue reading →