Remember
this song from the 1986 Tom Cruise painting
Top Gun?
Highway to the danger zone
Right into the danger zone
Highway to the danger zone
Gonna accept you lot correct into the danger zone
Substitute "danger zone" amongst "Danger Garden" as well as you lot induce got the topic vocal of
Loree Bohl's popular blog. After all, its motto is "Careful, you lot tin terminate poke an oculus out."
As I said inwards
this post, I didn't lose an oculus or whatever other vital trunk business office piece exploring Loree's front end garden on my mid-September trip to Portland, Oregon. But to a greater extent than danger lurks around the back, behind this impressive agave gate designed past times Loree's creative soul married adult man Andrew (read to a greater extent than nearly the gate
here).
But earlier nosotros stride through the gate, let's accept a await at the grouping of plants against the side of the house:
Combining tomatoes as well as herbs amongst agaves is classic Loree:
Also banknote the hanging planters on the garage wall (on the left inwards the photograph below). Loree exactly brought them within for the winter.
Click here to come across what she replaced them with.
Bringing together plants from real unlike geographical regions as well as climates, the dorsum garden defies slow categorization. It's a desert garden, an exotic garden as well as a shade garden; there's a stock tank amongst fish as well as in that location are carnivorous plants. And in that location is a huge collection of pots—most on the ground, some on tables, others hanging inwards trees as well as on walls. All of it is an aspect of Loree's unique vision as well as creativity.
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| Looking towards the house, amongst the garage on the right |
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| LEFT: Circle Pot from Potted nether Clifford, the big-leaf magnolia RIGHT: Chartreuse pot from Gainey Ceramics (unfortunately out of concern now) amongst Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls' |
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| Bromeliad trellis adjacent to the garage |
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| "Bulletin board" planters amongst Begonia 'Curly Fireflush' and Dichondra argentea (click here for to a greater extent than information on how Loree created them) |
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| The department known every bit "agaveland" amongst ii of Loree's dish planters (click here to uncovering out how she made them as well as here for a 2017 update) |
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| Shade garden against the garage wall |
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| Shredded umbrella establish (Syneilesis aconitifolia) |
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| Rice-paper establish (Tetrapanax papyrifer) |
The juxtaposition of large-leafed plants as well as spiky succulents is what makes the Danger Garden as well as thence exciting to me. And fifty-fifty within i category—leafy or spiky—there's a tremendous amount of textural contrast.
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| Yucca rostrata (nicknamed Sammy) as well as Nolina 'La Siberica' |
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| View towards the patio as well as the shade pavilion (left) |
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| Patio surrounded past times an amazing collection of plants, both potted as well as inwards the ground. Loree's garden is total of botanical curiorisities as well as it takes fourth dimension to uncovering them all. |
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| View from the patio towards the household (straight ahead), lawn (left), as well as garage (right) |
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| Each establish is interesting on its own, but Loree's knack for arranging plants as well as thence they contrast as well as complement each other takes this to the adjacent level |
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| Three Mexican fencepost cactus (Pachycereus marginatus) paired amongst 4 Euphorbia horrida 'Snowflake'—this is a combination I must recreate myself |
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| Looking towards the stock tank pond |
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| I'm foremost to repeat myself, but these are exactly amazing plants |
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| Take a await at those metallic containers! The adjacent fourth dimension I'm inwards Portland, I'll enquire Loree to accept me to some of the places where she finds treasures similar that. |
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| While in that location are other kinds of plants every bit well, Loree's beloved of agaves shines through |
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| Agave ovatifolia is a existent oculus catcher here |
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| Cluster of pots on the patio table |
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| Look at that impressive Agave utahensis var. eborispina in the back! |
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| The botanical wonders never goal inwards the Danger Garden. Aloe dorotheae on the correct is a stunner. Yes, it is that red! |
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| Looking dorsum towards the household (top left) as well as garage (top center), amongst the shade pavilion on the right |
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| This Agave lophantha 'Splendida' inwards the funnel is nevertheless i my favorite potted combo |
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| More potted beauties every bit nosotros plough towards the shade pavilion |
The adjacent photograph offers a total persuasion of the shade pavilion. In the wintertime it becomes a greenhouse for plants that bespeak to last protected from the pelting and/or cold.
Read this post on the Danger Garden spider web log for details. The pattern as well as techniques Loree as well as her married adult man Andrew came upwardly amongst are pure genius. I induce got no handy os inwards my body, as well as thence I'm ever inwards awe of people who are able to come upwardly up amongst creative solutions—and genuinely construct them!
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| Arrangements on the tabular array within the shade pavilion. Again, Loree's skillful juxtapositions blow my mind. |
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| Ditto here. The Danger Garden is total of vivid ideas come upwardly to life. And yet what you lot come across higher upwardly is exactly a brief instant inwards time. By now, this beautiful composition is long gone. |
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| Bromeliads are some other grouping of plants featuring prominently inwards the Danger Garden. These combos inwards tall metallic tubes are killer. They are tender as well as thence the pots resting within the tubes are lifted inwards the autumn as well as moved into the basement. |
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| So many textures playing off each other. The large-leafed establish inwards the stock tank on the correct is Podophyllum pleianthum. The raised concrete slab inwards front end of the stock tank is Loree's fern table. |
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| Another persuasion of the shade pavilion every bit nosotros swivel to the right |
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| Potted plants to the correct of the shade pavilion as well as patio set |
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| The color story—orange, dark as well as grayness containers, light-green as well as grayness plants—is both vibrant as well as remarkably restrained. I exactly wouldn't induce got the dependent to push clit this off. |
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| Agave applanata 'Cream Spike' inwards diverse combinations |
Since I was staying amongst Loree as well as Andrew during my visit, I had ample chance to explore the Danger Garden. But it nevertheless wasn't enough. Like a skillful majority or movie, a see to Loree's garden is a exceptional process that is over means likewise quickly.
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