The Basics Gardeners: Francesca and Scott Location: Portland, Oregon Size: The total lot is 50′ x 100′ but the backyard is only a tiny portion of that. Orientation: Northeast Zone: 8b Years gardened: 3 The Details Style: Chaotic Inspiration: Eating Favorite element(s): Miniature fruit! Favorite plant(s): Banana, pineapple, fly eating thing. Biggest challenge: The rocks […]
Garden Tours
Garden Tour: Andrea and Ben’s urban patio
Today marks the launch of Rock n’ Scroll: the Heavy Petal Garden Tour (woot!). See gardens from around the world, and share your garden with the whole wide web. Here’s how. To kick off the tour, I’m sharing my own back patio with you. Enjoy! The basics Gardeners: Andrea Bellamy and Ben Garfinkel (with daughter […]
Submit your garden! Take us on a garden tour.
Everyone loves a garden tour. But we can’t personally visit all the great and deserving gardens around the world. So climb aboard the Heavy Petal tour bus, where you can tour fellow readers’ gardens rain or shine, in spring or the depths of winter. The tour is full of fun people. And you don’t have […]
English country meets West Coast: A peek inside a Vancouver plant lover’s playground
For 12 years, the Southlands property of gardener Julie Lane Gay and husband Craig has been in the business of growth. The spacious property, which once housed Quail Hollow Climbers and Perennials, is now fertile ground for four growing children and a gardener’s wish list of plants, among them dozens of clematis. Julie and Craig […]