City Gardening

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Posts Tagged ‘Portland’

Nancyland

By • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Favourite Gardens

No matter where I wander, I find city gardens with loads of personality. Nancyland in Portland OR is one of the best examples. Here’s a garden that grabs you by the eyeballs and says, hi, this is my world and I hope ya’ll like it. Hold on tight, ‘cos your eyes will dart from the mosaic pebble [...]


Urban Chickens

By • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Designers, Gurus & Trends

Hens are hot. That’s the message I came back with from a recent tour of the gardens of Portland, Oregon. People are blogging about them (see Dirt by Amy Stewart), gardeners are raising them in urban gardens and at one city nursery called Pistils, they’re selling exotic species like Silkens and Frizzle Cochins (these were [...]