Now that the front garden hardscaping is nearing completion, it's time to do one of our favorite things: shopping for plants. The top photo shows part of the plants we found at Cistus Nursery, on Portland, Oregon's Sauvie Island. Lots of interesting things!
An assortment of perennials. We have a lot of ground to plant.
This little cutie is a Pacific Northwest native,
Erigeron glaucus, or beach daisy. This is a tough, tough plant that thrives with little attention. We love the flowers.
Monstrous red-hot pokers,
Kniphofia northiae, native to South Africa. These send up enormous flower spikes. The blue-grey foliage in front of them is
Melianthus major 'Antanow's Blue.'
Who wouldn't love this look? Plus, the foliage smells like peanut butter!
Out temporary nursery. Many things to plant…
The grey-green mass of foliage belongs to
Zauschneria septentrionalis 'Select Mattole,' the most cold and wet tolerant of the California fuchsias (not true fuchsias). Profuse orange-red flowers will draw in the hummingbirds later this summer.
Clockwise from lower right:
Hesperaloe parviflora,
Beschorneria albiflora,
Yucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies,'
Agave parry var. truncata,
Picea orientalis 'Skylands,'
Agave harvardiana, and
Cryptomeria japonica 'Araucarioides.' The pot in the upper left holds a
Callistemon viridiflora.
We're looking forward to playing with placing and planting these (and all the ones not shown here).
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