Hi GPODers!
We’re visiting Nancy Sarpola in Corvallis, Oregon today, and diving into another incredible fall garden. Nancy has submitted her garden several times over the years (December in an Oregon Garden, A Look Back at the Garden, Nancy’s Hillside Garden in Oregon, Through the Year in an Oregon Garden, and more), and she always has something new and exciting to share. From out-of-the-norm wonders to brilliant varieties of garden classics, every gardener will find something of note in her beds.
Hi from Oregon, Here are 10 photos taken in September, October and November in our zone 8b, Corvallis, Oregon garden.
The view up the hill as you enter through the gate, accented this time of year by a red salvia blooming on the right.
The second shot across the lawn was taken September 2nd. It features variegated ‘Norah Leigh’ phlox (Phlox paniculata ‘Norah Leigh’, Zones 4–8) front and center.
Honey bush (Melianthus major, Zones 8–11), chocolate cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus, Zones 7–11) and a pink flowering sedum (listed top to bottom).
An exotic-looking ‘Tara’ ginger lily (Hedychium coccineum ‘Tara’, Zones 7–11), a 6 feet tall ginger with a 10 inch tall flower spike.
Our Yoshino cherry tree (Prunus × yedoensis, Zones 5–8) as it turns brilliant orange on November 7. November is usually gray and rainy in Western Oregon but when the sun comes out, the Fall colors are wonderful!
A hydrangea relative, Chinese quinine or blue evergreen hydrangea (Dichroa febrifuga, Zones 8–10). It has blue flowers in summer but it’s most amazing season is Fall when these deep blue berries form.
‘Freckles’ winter flowering clematis (Clematis cirrhosa ‘Freckles’, Zones 7–9), which begins blooming in November and will bloom on and off all winter whenever the weather warms up just a little.
Eighth is a vignette in the garden that includes Heavy Metal Switch grass (Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’, Zones 4–9), annual purple perilla, and ‘Mardi Gras’ sneezeweed (Helenium ‘Helbro’ , Zones 4–8).
An amazing October-blooming perennial called long-tubed trumpet spurflower (Isodon effusus var. longitubus, Zones 6–8). It looks like a delicate salvia but blooms very well in mostly shade.
And finally Pink muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris, Zones 6–10) in the late afternoon sun.
Thank you so much for sharing your stunning garden with us again, Nancy! Your designs and plant selections get more and more exciting over the years, and there is no season where your space lacks interest.
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