Chickadee Gardens is Open! HPSO Open Garden This Sunday June 15

Howdy, Garden Friends! If you are in the Portland area and are a Hardy Plant Society of Oregon (HPSO) member, look us up this Sunday the 15th from 11 - 2 as we're hosting an open garden! If you can't come out and visit, here's what the garden is looking like these days.
For those of you in the neighborhood, we'd love to see you!

Here's my stitched-together photo of the whole front garden. It's getting there!

The back garden from the vantage point of Eco-Roof #2.

My beloved climbing rose, 'Eden' in white.

We refer to this area as the "Jurrasic Garden." The Podophyllum pleianthum has taken over, and is taking names and hostages. 

Astilbe in the white garden. 

Silene asterias 'Cherry Drumsticks' purchased from Annie's Annuals last year. Only the one bloom so far, so it may be gone by the time anyone comes by! Still cool, though.

Aaah, one of the trademark flowers of the garden, Mimulus aurantiacus 'Jeff's Tangerine'.

One of two native honeysuckles in Chickadee Gardens.
This one, Lonicera hispidula, finally bloomed after three years; the hummers love it.

Aruncus dioicus or Goatsbeard, another native.

No, not a native. This is actually Edelweiss, very dear to my heart.

Sidalcea or checker mallow, another native. It blooms and blooms and blooms and the bees love it. It is underplanted with a dianthus, I do not know which variety but the clove-scented blooms are delicious.

 And here's Hobbes in action eating my grasses. 

He doesn't think I'm looking, but...

Just look at that toothy face. He's busted.

And here's what he looks like when he catches my gaze...he's all "Oh, hey...look at that bug over there..."

Some of the white shady-ish garden.

Here's the bloom of native Spiraea betulifolia, purchased at Echo Valley Natives. The blooms are just about done now, but it's a lovely little deciduous sub-shrub worth noting.

One of three cistus in the front hell strip pink garden. Tough as nails.

Eryngium agavifolium, also in the hell strip.

Bloom of Spiraea douglasii, another native sub-shrub. This one is very happy and spreading like mad. Great for hell strips and a magnet for butterflies and bees.

Some sedums-a-mixin'.

Again, the Sidalcea campestris, this time backlit.

See? The bees loooove it. 

A native penstemon, I have lost track which one this is. Anyone know?

See the spider shadow in the sunflower? He's keeping it safe from sunflower munchers. Thank you, spider!

Eryngium 'Sapphire Blue'.

Delicious blooms of native Philadelphis lewisii.

The Ceanothus 'Dark Star' completely died on me. It was replaced with this, Callistemon viridiflorus from Xera Plants. Love it!

Texture mash-up.

Unica rubra 'Belinda's Find' with Heuchera 'Marmalade' in the background.

Succulent mash-up.

So there's the quick and dirty tour. Hopefully, there will still be plants-a-blooming come Sunday and some good weather, too. Come on out if you are in the neighborhood! If you are not a member of  HPSO and would like to be, go to their website for details. I encourage it. It's a great organization and one of the funnest aspects of being a member is being able to get a peek at hundreds of area gardens. 

That's it from Chickadee Gardens this time, until next week, thank you for reading and happy gardening!