Portland Gardens

The Garden Blogger's Fling is fast-approaching, 

and I am so excited about attending it in one of my favorite cities, Portland.

I visited there for a whirlwind weekend in 2006 and 

went to a couple of the places that are included on this year's Fling itinerary. 

I thought it would be fun to review some images I captured in '06,

 and in a future post, show images from this year's visit. 

From a very sunny, bright day in 2006...

Chinese Garden entrance

A shot below at the International Rose Test Gardens.

Next, let's travel to the Japanese Garden...

And last,

a shot of the old and the new, downtown Portland.

Looking forward to meeting you at the Fling!

~Aerie-el

Wordless Wednesday - Pollinators on Prune

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~Aerie-el

Wordless Wednesday - Pink in the Garden

Lamprocapnos--bleeding hearts

Lupinus--lupines

Cosmos

Lychnis coronaria--Rose Campion or catachfly

and Swallowtail

Echinacea--coneflower

Spirea douglasii (native)--hardhack or rose spirea

Papaver--poppies

Happy Wordless Wednesday!

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~Aerie-el

Wordless Wednesday - Larch candles

Lovely Larch

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Wordless Wednesday - Phone Gnome

Wordless for now, 

I think these are just screaming for captions...

perhaps a little gnome wisdom.

 

These wonderful gnomes are on loan 

at the Sophia M Sachs Butterfly House 

in Chesterfield, Missouri for a limited time.

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Happy WW!

~Aerie-el