Re: Z8 Portland OR/gardening style

Elle--
Sounds lovely, Elle! Good luck on that wedding!
		
		Mary

 
> Hi Mary..I am trying this here( in Z8 Willamette Valley Oregon) this
> year for just that reason.  I have also been seed starting later 
> this
> year to have fresh annuals when the perennials give out as we are 
> having
> a wedding reception in the yard in late July.
> Our 'spring' lasted about 3 weeks in April-since May we have had 
> cold
> rainy almost wintery weather!  It feels like winter yet my iris are 
> just
> starting to bloom..strange.
> Anyhow, I have about 60 roses-the most recent additions are heritage
> roses grown on their own root stock. 20 varieties of japanese, 
> german
> and traditional but flashy regular iris, an established herb garden 
> and
> 4 raised perennial/rose/shrub beds crammed full of primarily yellow 
> blue
> and purple blooming flowers with some pink and white thrown in for
> contrast.  I worked hard on my view out the front window where a 
> very
> nicely established Hellebores orientalle and a couple of very happy
> dicentra, both pink and white, are surrounded by oriental poppy in 
> deep
> reds and pinks and one orange one (where did that come from?)  I 
> also
> had what I bought as a yellow gerbera daisy come up orange.  I think
> these babes are going to my daughters house however I also have some
> california poppies who reseeded themelves for years in this bed and 
> are
> coming up orange too.  Maybe I should move the orange volunteers to 
> a
> less visible spot!
> I had what was an overgrown grassy slope terraced last summer.  This 
> is
> on the side of my garage and visible only by going there (or by my 
> neighbor)
> It's very hot in the summer in this spot and I have actually !!made 
> a
> plan!! and planted it out with this plan in mind.  Not my normal 
> style
> at all.
> Again, there are old roses in yellows and pinks, astillbe of all 
> colors,
> transplanted mums and daylilies, salvia elegans against the garage 
> wall
> intersperced with yarrow and shasta daisies.
> On the top terrace I have tilled in lots of sand and mulch and 
> compost
> to make a good draining less oregon clay bed and have planted
> penstemons, a yucca transplanted from a front bed (a gift from my
> hubby-not something I would normally buy and I'm not sure how this 
> plant
> will do, but it's in the sunniest spot in the garden now)
> This bed is just about half done but the weather isn't being very
> helpful to me.
> My favorite garden is the one in my front yard under a very large
> Douglas fir, flowering plum and 4 birch trees.  We tried for years 
> to
> grow grass but finally gave up, had a load of good topsoil dumped, 
> mixed
> compost in and collected fir needles from all over the block and 
> made a
> Pacific Northwest Natives garden.
> Wow-have I gone on and on!
> Sorry but I do love gardening and being retired gives me the time to
> spend as much time at it as I want!
> What a good topic!
> elle aka motor keyboardist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mary R Wills wrote:
>  
> > My garden always looked terrible late July-August, but I've found 
> that if
> > I wait to seed warm-weather annuals (zinnias, cosmos, etc. ) until 
> the
> > first two weeks in June, then the annuals are looking fresh and 
> terrific
> > right about the time the perennials give up.
> 
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