A Very Personal Garden
When plant people hear the name Maurice Horn an endearing comment inevitably follows. He was the beloved nursery owner of the now-closed Joy Creek Nursery , famous for clematis, hydrangeas, fuchsias, penstemons and many now hard-to-find perennials and shrubs. It was an institution that effectively ended when he retired in 2021. We still feel the loss daily, even across the U.S. as mail order was a big part of their business. But he and George are happy and super-busy in their retirement tending their 10-acre Sauvie Island garden. It is not often that our dear friends open their garden, not that they don't enjoy sharing, but opening one's garden to the public requires weeks if not months of preparation; I speak from experience. Well, multiply our teeny two-acre garden by five and my head spins at the amount of work that goes into opening theirs. But open it they did for the recent Inviting Vines tour that benefitted the Rogerson Clematis Gardens . Maurice's work with clemat...
