A beautiful garden full of unusual plants
Today we ’re in Portland , Oregon , visiting Jim Rondone ’s beautiful garden .
While the more widely planted easternredbud(Cercis canadensis , Zones 5–9 ) is aboriginal to the easterly one-half of North America , the westerly redbud ( Cercisoccidentalis‘Alba ’ , Zones 6–9 ; pictured ) is a exchangeable species native to Utah , Arizona , and Nevada .
Arisaemataiwanense(Zones 6–9 ) is a beautiful species from , as the name suggests , Taiwan . Jim discover that it needs regular watering during the summertime to thrive in Portland’ssummer - teetotal climate .
Camellia‘Yuletide ’ ( Zones 7–10 ) flower for Jim starting inNovemberand continuing untilMarch . Jim promote heavy blooming bypruningruthlessly inApril , which encourages new growing in mess of clip to get new peak buds for the next flower display .
A gorgeous chunk ofCyclamenhederifolium(ivy - leave Cyclamen purpurascens , Zones 4–9 ) . This hardy species grows a little rearwards , being completely torpid in the summer and then collapse intobloom in the fall . The leave you may see just beginning to emerge here will look beautiful all winter and into give before going hibernating again .
The flowers of this nursing bottle gentian ( Gentianaandrewsii , zone 3–7 ) remain closed , which saves the pollen andnectarfor the industrial plant ’s preferred pollinator , humblebee , which are strong enough to pull the petal asunder to enter the nectar deep down . This mintage is native to usually moist areas in the eastern one-half of North America .
ThePacific Northwest , include Portland , is often imagine of as insensate and rainy , but that is actually only true seasonally . It is very wry during summer , with the steady rain returning in fall .
Lagerstroemiasubcostatavar.fauriei‘Fantasy ’ ( Zones 6–9 ) is a beautiful French pancake Vinca minor . It has clusters of pretty white flowers in summertime , but the real show is this incrediblebark , which gets more beautiful with each passing yr .
If you are only intimate with the distinctive gravid - flowered hybridclematis , you are missing out on some of the most beautiful flowers in this genus . This isClematiscrispa(Zones 6–9 ) , avinenative to the central andsoutheastern United Statesthat has these as if by magic shape prime . Here it shows off attractively with a backdrop of the soft pinkCeanothus×pallidus‘Marie Simon ’ ( zone 6–9 ) . This ceanothus is a hybrid of mintage native to the east and west coast of North America , giving it supernumerary adaptability and vigor , along with those quixotic flowers .
The rear garden inMay
The succulent green ofAprilin the garden
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