Gardening on the Oregon Coast

It is a great climate—just watch out for the bears!

Today we ’re in Peggy Rupert ’s garden in Brookings , Oregon . We chat her garden before ( Giant Snapdragons ) shortly after she displace from Reno , Nevada . It is fun to be back in this garden and see how much has changed .

Since we were sport on the GPOD before , my married man and I have had agarden shedbuilt , landscape the former dog run , replace tire - out lawn with pea gravel , and figured out we ca n’t put bird suet on our fencing facing the forest because bears literally shoot down “ through ” the heavy string link , even breaking the problematical carpeting zip ties my husband had used to seize the hiss food ! We have engraft so many unexampled - to - us shrubs , Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and plants , discover that some we were able-bodied to grow in the subtlety in Reno happily flourish in the coastal sunlight . We instal two newfountainsthat entertain the many doll and create such a calming sound to our surroundings .

Red crocosmia ( Crocosmia‘Lucifer ’ , Zones 6–9 ) flower over a huge clump of Japanese forest green goddess ( Hakonechloamacra‘Aureola ’ , Zones 5–9 ) .

A big blue hydrangea ( Hydrangeamacrophylla , Zones 6–11 ) contrasts with red-hot - colored annuals in the foreground , include a particularly brilliantcanna .

Gladiolus ( Gladiolushybrids , Zones 8–11 or as crank bulbs ) add a striking upright element to this container planting .

A rich tapestry of tree and bush provides lots of colouring and beauty for minimum work .

Peggy is certainly take reward of the soft mood to grow lots of plants to their plush perfection .

One of the recently installed fountains adds the sound of water to the garden andattracts shuttle .

In this look down the garden bed , a huge clump of redcrocosmiasteals the show .

A course invites you to wander down into the garden and see what smasher lie down ahead .

A quiet moment of green in the garden is all about contrasting texture and simple beauty .

There used to be a suetbird feederhere . Now there is a hollow , thanks to a hungry bear who had a courteous small suet snack .

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