Gaining Ground: Planting Day in the Neighbor Garden | Portland Zone 8b | eGardenGo

Planting day in the neighbor garden—part two for this section. My neighbor's property just to the south, which I've been tending for several years as an extension of my own garden. This bed turns the corner connecting a new planting area to what's already established, and the design intent from last week holds: strong evergreen structure, a thread of blue and yellow, warm orange-burgundy tying back to the plantings around the corner.

I walk through each addition: a Yucca linearifolia echoing the Yucca rostrata higher on the slope; a Chamaecyparis 'Blue Surprise' that showed up as a nursery find and earned its spot; Hebe 'Quicksilver' cascading low in a fine-textured repeat of the blue; a Berberis Sunjoy Neo® for the orange-burgundy anchor; a transplanted Bupleurum fruticosum seedling; Pittosporum tobira 'Wheeler's Dwarf'; an Erigeron glaucus variety; a peony; and a grass. The closing walk ties it together. The full neighbor garden playlist—which goes back to when this space was first created—is here. Part 1 of this section is here.