Pacific Northwest Gardening: Any Oregon Coast Gardeners out there?, 1 by pogotree

pogotree wrote:
You are right about needing a loan, after looking at the hortus botanicus website it seems I could end up broke by going there! Lately I have been trying to maintain some self control but as you had said in your earlier post it can be quite an addiction. I had heard about that glass beach and do plan to check it out. This time Ill be going down the coast and back on rt 20, I-5 and then rt 42 so as to be able to make a loop and see everything that I possibly can, coast, mountains etc... but I would love to stop by one day and see what you have growing and I often take off on weekends and drive down to the curry county beaches. It seems so often that on a foggy cloudy day here that as soon as I get past port orford it clears right up and gets 10 degrees warmer. In fact just last week I was down there hiking around in boardman state park. The wildflowers were quite far ahead of the ones here along the coast. There were lots of redwood violets, cardamine and others. Have you ever tried to grow the native Dudleya? Im always quite impressed to see them clinging to the rocks. One of my favorites places to see them is the meyers creek beach just south of cape sebastion and that cant be too far from you at all. Here is a picture of some sedum that I took there on those sea stacks, If I remember the dudleya grow there along with them though there are none in this picture.