Dahlias? Done that. What else did I see in Portland that was worth blogging about? Here's the first of several posts with the best things I saw in Portland.
Hands down, Cistus Nursery on Sauvie Island has to be the most fantastical nursery that I've ever seen. If you're ever in the Portland area and have a taste for exotic or unusual plants, you simply must stop in for a visit. How you squeeze all of the plants you crave into your luggage is something that I will leave up to you.
Sign behind service counter
Pindo palm
Click the photo to read the funny story behind where this palm came from.
Phormium and ferns
Phormium plants are striking and appeared in almost every garden we visited in the Portland area. Apparently they like the dry summers and moist, mild winters. I've heard they would melt in hot, wet summers in Florida, but I haven't tried growing them myself.
Yucca and agave
Kniphofia
Brugmansia
This brugmansia appeared with many other tender plants in the Cistus Nursery "Zonal Denial" room.
Cannas
How could I resist?
Did I mention how tall these cannas were? Given, I'm only 5'2" so I'm not the best scale, but these must have been 12 or 15 feet tall. I believe that the tallest ones with the small orange flowers were 'Omega', but I'm not certain.
To see all photos I took at Cistus Nursery, click here.
A few of my favorite things, Part I
Friday, October 17, 2008
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5 comments:
Ugh - I'd have a field day in that place. How do you take 12 cannas home on the plane?
Sounds like a Florida gardeners dream nursery. This is so interesting to learn about Portland (I've never been) having such exotics.
i saw massive cannas at kanapaha this past weekend...there's hope yet! :)
wicked gardener: The secret is to order cannas now and have the friendly Cistus folks ship them to you as rhizomes when the plants are dormant. :-)
meems: Stay tuned for even more photos of the exotic things I saw in Portland.
erin: Oooh... I'll have to chat with the Kanapaha gardener.
Totally agree. Cistus Nursery is the place to go for unusual plants that can survive NW winters.
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