A Deep Urban Lot
The garden at Cornus House is a working landscape — part productive, part wild, always in motion with the season.
Garden Highlights
The garden at Cornus House contains over 700 species and cultivars across a deep urban lot in North Portland's Overlook neighborhood.
A deep collection including Polystichum, Adiantum, Dryopteris, Athyrium, Blechnum, and others.
Rhododendron, Cassiope, Kalmia, Kalmiopsis, Enkianthus, Vaccinium, Arctostaphylos.
Gentiana, Lewisia, Saxifraga, Dryas, Penstemon, Androsace.
Cornus, Mahonia, Ribes, Holodiscus, Camassia, Erythronium.
Stewartia, Parrotia, Acer, Styrax, Disanthus, Corylopsis.
Rosmarinus, Salvia, Thymus, Lavandula, Angelica, Glycyrrhiza.
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Garden Writing
Plant portraits written for the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden newsletter, Shoreline, Washington.
Introduction
On the Kruckebergs, a missed conversation, and learning to know someone through their plants
Erythronium
On fawn lilies, patience, and plants that prefer an audience other than us
Corylopsis
On winterhazels, plants on wheels, and the upside-down world of winter bloomers
Kalmiopsis leachiana
On Bigfoot country, the botanizing Leaches and their donkeys, and a small plant with a long story
Polystichum munitum
On sword ferns, an eponymous hybrid, and learning to see what is everywhere
Stewartia monodelpha
On the summer camellia, the island of Yakushima, and a special envoy from across the water