This was my second visit to this great nursery (previous post here) which has a long and interesting history. Portland has so many marvelous nurseries that it's difficult to choose just a few to visit in an afternoon. Fortunately there are several that are only minutes away from the convention center where Alison and I spent the morning.
Portland Nursery on Stark is huge and even in March was well stocked with plants, although most of their deciduous trees, as you'd imagine, were dormant or just breaking dormancy.
Something that always blows me away at this nursery is their great pot displays.
It's lovely the way they combine plants in single colors of pots.
The stacked birch branch fencing/edging was a new sight at a nursery. My niece, Alison, used birch logs to make her raised vegetable beds.
Love the big moss covered tree limb. This would look great in my greenhouse with bromeliads, tillandsias, Spanish Moss, etc. Now, where to find a large branch? Perhaps I'll have to wait until the next winter wind storm.
More sunny goodness.
Wouldn't it be fun to simply have beautiful pots laid out like this with a constant supply of plants looking their best to plop into them?
Speaking of pots, there was a nice selection for both outside and in.
An added bonus was that the prices were less than what I see at most of the nurseries in Washington.
It wasn't until I looked at my pictures that I figured out that the turquoise planters bottom center and right are peacocks.
One called out to me. It reminded me of Mark and Gaz's lotus vessels of which I'm enamored.
On of these Helleborus foetidus 'Wester Flisk Group' jumped into my cart. Dig the cool silver foliage. More about this plant can be found here.
Wandering into the indoor plant area I admired the staghorn ferns. I'd no idea there are so many different varieties. I was tempted by this Selaginella erythropus 'Ruby Red' about which Loree wrote recently. I've killed the turquoise form so decided to leave these for someone else. How is yours doing, Loree?
