Pacific Northwest Gardening: Mauryhill Photo Tour, 1 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
Oh Tilly, don't wait for me! It could be days before I can really get out to take more pictures, and weeks before I've made it all around the yard. If its not raining this weekend, I'll get a few more, but if its drippy who knows when.... Then it'll be into Thanksgiving, and then I have to write report cards which takes me hours and hours.

That Gladwyn iris can be found in plant files under iris foetidissima. It actually doesn't smell so bad, and that's only if you crush the leaf or roots. The flower isn't much to speak of, but the leaves are evergreen, the berries are interesting, and the deer don't bother it (the smell of a broken leaf is supposed to be like roast beef--maybe they don't like that, hee,hee). There is supposed to be a variegated variety as well, which I'd like to find a source for. Apparently the seeds take a very long time to germinate (months or more), but if you'd like to try it I have plenty. This is the first year it fruited. They looked better before getting pounded down by the rain.

Here's a few more pictures taken at other times of year. First, beneath the Ceanothus this Spring. The Hellebore is in bloom. I had just planted a Heuchera, but it did terribly there and I need to move it to a better place. I want to replace it with another Hellebore, but can't find any in local nurseries just now. I'm trying to get various trailing sedums going in the crevices of the broken concrete wall