It’s always worth a visit to SE Portland’s Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden; this is especially true if you like rhododendrons, as they are omnipresent there.
16+ acres of lush forest and flowering plants from around the Northwest, and you will get a very different experience depending on what time of year you visit.
This refuge, located just west of Ridgefield, Washington, is home to a wide variety of plants and animals.
Even though it was in the heat of summertime, we still saw many animals in this botanical garden, including a few very happy and loud frogs.
A quick visit to Westmoreland Park, a lovely community park in SE Portland, Oregon…
Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post two of two, and it features the 85mm photographs.
Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post one of two, and it features the 50mm photographs.
On a cool drizzly early spring morning, there were plenty of beautiful sights in the garden, from honking geese to blooming flowers of various varieties (including, yes, rhododendrons). Oh, and one huge nutria.
An award-winning farm that ships irises all over world, with custom hybrid varieties that you cannot find anywhere else. If you are like me and love the smell of irises, this farm is a heavenly place to visit. Bring your nose!
Always a fun Portland destination, especially this time of year when many of the plants are in bloom.
We visited the fabulous tulip fields during one of the all-time coolest and wettest Aprils on record…
Springtime flowers are made for this wild weather, and do not even seem to notice…
My favorite season at the Leach is springtime, when the first flowers appear and everything is deep, bright green…
Not the kind of overly manicured botanical garden that takes itself too seriously…
One of East Portland’s best spots without a doubt is Leach Botanical Garden. Full of ever-changing greenery, particularly from across the Pacific Northwest, you can find it on SE Claybourne Street, just a little off SE Foster Road and north of Mount Scott.
It’s springtime in Oregon and that means of course it is time to return to the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in the farmlands outside of Woodburn.
Smack in the middle of the delightful town of Silverton sits the Oregon Garden. It’s about 80 acres of beautiful trees and flowers of more varieties than I can count…
One of the best hidden gems in Milwaukie, Oregon…
Not only was it pouring rain in the dead of winter, but more importantly about two thirds of the place were closed for a massive renovation project…
Almost always a thrilling stop for flower lovers like myself, even in October when the roses are not at their height…
The festival is the farm’s dahlia catalog come to life…
We walked miles and miles around the city center from this museum to that, from this fun spot to that. I really enjoyed myself, particularly attracted to and energized by the intellectual vibe in the air, thick like the humidity.
