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is designed with several distinct garden "rooms" separated
by arbors. The first "room" is the front yard which
is dominated by a grand old Cedar of Lebanon. The back yard has
three rooms divided by metal arches. There are also wooden arbors
over the steps leading off the terrace and over the side gate.
The beds are fairly neatly laid out but the planting are somewhat
of a glorious mess. Neither Jeff nor I like a garden that looks
too well controlled. There is quite alot of the garden that is
not shown on this website, as I update it I'll try to include
some of the different features. |
This wisteria on our back patio roof was
here when we bought the house and we had the terrace designed
around it. It puts on a wonderful show every May with color and
fragrance. |
Two clematis, Viticella Veosa Violacea
and Viticella Minuet growing together on a bent steel arbor leading
into the rear shade garden. They bloom in late June through the
middle of August. |
Aster Frikaardi, Perovskia, and Rudbeckia,
all excellent sources of color in the late summer garden. |
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Ornamental hops, Willamette variety, Clematis
fugi musume, and a Awakening Climbing rose growing on
an arbor over steps leading off the terrace. The Pacific Northwest
has a wonderful climate for hops. |
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English Delphiniums growing in the middle
border in the backyard. The English hybrids are a much more vigorous
and reliable plant than the Pacific Giant hybrids. The red rose
is a hybid rugosa called Linda Campbell that is in constant bloom.
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Clockwise from the
left, Oregano Hopley's Purple, Coreopsis Early Sunrise, and Veronica
Sunny Border Blue, in a mixed bed. Above that, Shasta daisies,
lavender and roses, and to the right clematis "Julia Courevon
and clematis integrifolia "roguchi" growing together. |
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The mixed border in the backyard in Spring.
There are metal arbors like the one above on each side of this
bed leading into the back of the yard where the Hybrid Musk border
is. To the right is the shade bed with the Coastal Redwood.