Is your outdoor living space in need of help? If you answered yes to this question, consider seeking out one of the many free design consultations and classes being offered during Le Tour des Plants this week. With help, you can learn to tame the wilderness with Japanese design elements, improve your corner of the world with a green roof and a rain garden, and perk up your garden’s fall and winter look with unusual conifers. Check out how the right plantings can help make your home more secure!
Click here for a listing of Design Activities
Touring with heart
Kids/family
Special tours/visiting wholesale nurseriesFind out the appeal of clematis at the extensive Rogerson Clematis Collection at Luscher Farm. The research facilities at Oregon State University Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture test plants and plantings to find which ones are suitable to use in ecologically beneficial garden features such as green roofs and rain gardens. The Oregon State Organic Growers Club invites you to see their all-volunteer organic farm.
Touring for food
Several nurseries are spotlighting what to plant for a great harvest, along with tips on how to turn fresh produce into superior salsa and gourmet meals. If you were wondering how to grow food in containers, how to prune fruit trees or which berry is best for backyards, these classes are for you!
List of foods HERE!
Food & wine & music
Gardening is for ALL your senses! Twenty stops along Le Tour des Plants will tempt your palate with such things as pastries, fresh roasted garlic, tomatoes, scones, apples, coffee, lavender lemonade, and more! Local wineries will be pouring at Larsen Farms, Out in the Garden Nursery, and Blooms-N-More.
List of food growing and activities
Catch live musical performances at Blooms-N-More, Dancing Oaks, River Rock Nursery, and Evans Farms. Click here for a listing of music and special events.
Click here for a listing of music and special events
Pamper yourself with a little chair massage at Madrona Hills ACE Hardware and Garland Nursery.
Find out more about Le Tour des Plants, including a list of participating garden centers, at www.letourdesplants.com.
Carol Westergreen of Out in the Garden Nursery recommends the following plants for beautiful fall color and texture:
Panicum ‘Shenandoah’ An upright, 4-foot tall ornamental grass with wispy flowers and red-tipped foliage late summer into fall, ‘Shenandoah’ loves full sun and is adaptable to many soil types.
Pennisetum ‘Karly Rose’ is a wonderful hardy fountain grass with fluffy pink flowers from July to frost. ‘Karly Rose’ grows to 3 feet tall in full sun.
Rudbeckia ‘Chim Chiminee’ An unusual black-eyed Susan that blooms from July to October. Flower color ranges from yellow to gold, to rust, often with quilled petals. A great addition to the fall border and ornamental grass companion, ‘Chim Chiminee’ grows to 3 feet in full sun.
Artemisia Guizhou Group Low mounds of ferny dark green foliage sets the stage for 4-foot spires of creamy white flowers on dark mahogany stems. Blooms July and August. In the northwest, the foliage is evergreen.
Print off this coupon and get acquainted with Out in the Garden Nursery, in Molalla.
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For convenience, garden centers are grouped into three general areas, North, Mid-Willamette, and South Willamette. Here is a preview of the South-Willamette Group.
Le Tour des Plants is here to provide gardeners with a couple of pet-friendly gardening tips:
We have contests, tips, tour routes, and coupons from participating nurseries. Feel free to spread the word to friends and family. Look for Le Tour des Plants Magazine in participating garden centers in the days to come with all the dates, activities and discount coupons at participating garden centers.
Who will be on this year’s tour? There are almost 50 locations, from Woodland, Washington all the way down to Eugene, along with several display gardens, wholesale nurseries and other special interest stops like OSU’s green roof research site and student-run organic farm. For convenience, garden centers are grouped into three general areas, Portland/Vancouver area, Mid-Willamette, and South Willamette. Here is a preview of the Mid-Willamette group.
If you are in the neighborhood, Madrona Hills ACE Hardware in Salem has a coupon for you! Click here to print this off and enjoy!
Find out more about Le Tour des Plants, including a list of participating garden centers, at www.letourdesplants.com.
Garden centers have lots of activities going on NOW! Classes, workshops and specials are listed on our Web sites .
Final Tip! To have color year round in your garden, visit your favorite garden centers regularly and see which plants are looking their best, then take a few home to mingle with your other plants and decorations. Easy!
"This arrangement alternates the foliage with the flowers, and the trailing with the bushy. I stuck some holly and snowberry branches in it to fill it out around Christmas. It was beautiful all fall, and when it came back with fresh leaves and flowers in March, it was prettier than ever."
Ellen Egan
Ellen’s Favorite Fall Basket Recipe: Blue and Yellow Mix
Use a 14- to 16-inch diameter hanging basket. I prefer to use pots from Western Pulp that are made of recycled paper and have a nice textured surface. Sharing the center space, plant an Acorus Ogon, a variegated sedge grass that keeps its foliage all winter, and a Sundaze Golden Beauty Strawflower, which blooms all fall, but eventually dies out in winter.
Around the sides, plant in this order:
» 1 Heuchera ‘Key Lime Pie,’ which keeps its bright lime green foliage all winter
» 1 bright blue pansy, which blooms all fall, lives through winter and reblooms in spring
» 1 Golden Creeping Jenny, which keeps its trailing lime foliage all winter
» 1 Euphorbia ‘Faded Blue Jeans,’ a bushy powder-blue foliage perennial
» 1 golden yellow pansy, for fall and spring blooms
» 1 Verbena ‘Superbena Dark Blue,’ a big trailer that’s nearly always perennial, for fall and spring flowers
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