Gardens & Flowers Spotted in PDX
Posted on | June 21, 2011 | 9 Comments
Garden on Mississippi Avenue
I’m back from Portland, Oregon! On my trip I was fascinated with the gardens I saw exploding in the front yards of bungalows and down onto the sidewalks. Layers of color and texture reminded me of English cottage gardens—the palettes alive with amazing yellow, oranges and bright pinks. The gardens incorporated a lot of different grasses breaking up the texture and created a rustling sounds in the breeze. So different then traditional perennial gardens we see in New England.
I popped into Pastils Nursery on Mississippi Avenue to discover neon ornamental grasses, night phlox and Spanish Lavender—the ornamental heads are really cute! Chickens and turkeys roaming the nursery making you feel like your at a country home rather then the city.
p.s. the million dollar question: What is the pink flower I kept seeing in Portland. Is it a butterfly bush? But the blossoms don’t cluster in the same shape? Hmm any ideas? I think we have a winner! I think it’s Jupiter’s Beard or Centranthus ruber! Thanks Marissa for the help in the comments section.
Pistils Nursery
3811 N. Mississippi Ave.
Portland, OR
pistilsnursery.com
Gardens spotted in the neighborhood near Mississippi Avenue
Garden on Mississippi Avenue
Jupiter’s Beard growing out a wall on Mississippi Avenue
Spanish Lavender spotted in a garden (left) and at Pistils Nursery
Night Phlox at Pistils Nursery
Orange Sedge and Japanese Blood Grass at Pistils Nursery
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Columbia River Gorge
Posted on | June 17, 2011 | 8 Comments
I’m in Portland, Oregon for the weekend. I spent the day with Chelsea from the blog {frolic!}. She was sweet enough to be my tour guide and brought me up to see the Columbia River Gorge. It was beautiful. The air was clean, the landscape lush with beautiful wild flowers, ferns and moss covered rocks. The wild maidenhair ferns (I have in my garden!) had me snapping a ton of photos. Gorgeous.
Thanks for a fantastic day Chelsea! I’m off to bed, my clocks reads: 2:56 am east coast time!
Mt. Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods
Posted on | January 31, 2011 | 17 Comments
Over the weekend we embraced the snow and went skiing in northern New Hampshire. We stayed at the Bretton Arms which is an inn that is part of the Mt. Washington Hotel Resort. The hotel was built over a hundred years ago is one of the last surviving grand hotels in the United States. Back in the day visitors traveled by rail to the backcountry of New Hampshire for long vacations away from the city.
When I was a kid we lived in northern New Hampshire. My older sister took riding lessons at the hotel in the summer months—I was too little and was only allowed to take trail rides on special occasions. I spent hours staring up at the big white lady nestled in the mountains from the riding ring. It was the fanciest hotel I had ever seen.
Above and below snapshots from a twilight walk around the resort. An outdoor pool on the backside of the hotel was full of kids after a long day of skiing. The kids ran down a heated sidewalk, jumped into the steamy hot pool that looked out to view of the mountains, fancy indeed!
Mt. Washington Hotel
Route 302
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
603-278-1000
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