Garden at the Foot of the Mountains

A garden with a view

My name is Judy Houchin and I live in northeasterly Oregon , in Zone 7 , at the foot of the Blue Mountains . When we proceed into this house in 1985 , it was position up for goats , with only valerian(Valerian rubra , zone 5–8 ) in patch . We terraced the front thou , and I get going bring some plant . The first , from my mom ’s house , was called a pride poppy(Macleaya cordata , Zones 3–8 ) , but we called these French tree diagram because the seeds were air from my grandmother ’s pen pal in France . They can be very encroaching but well-fixed to curb . I finally retire in 2009 , and that ’s when my passion of gardening began . I have a go at it Japanese gardens and Feng Shui , so my garden artistry has Asian divine guidance , and I choose plant that make me felicitous . Most the plants in my yard are perennials , but there are pots of annuals placed for berth of color ( I love red ) . The garden goes all the direction around the firm , and I put in a small Zen garden and a dry river bottom on a slope .

Gorgeous sentiment , seem out over a big piece of the red flowers of valerian .

Garden artbrings Asiatic inspiration to the garden .

A vigorous gilded hops vine ( Humuluslupulus‘Aureus ’ , Zones 5–8 ) produce masses of bright foliage throughout summer .

The sunshine scramble through the golden hops get out like maculate glass .

Lavender plant ( Lavendulasp . , Zones 5–8 ) in the foreground getting quick to bloom , with unbelievable views stretch out behind .

Hostastucked in at the base of the hops vine .

hen - and - dame ( Sempervivum , Zones 4–8 ) with light-green leaf tipped with reddish John Brown . More shade and water tend to promote more green colour in sempervivum , while gay , drier conditions encourage more red tones .

A repeated bed with the classifiable leaves of the feather poppy along the back side .

A very glad hosta .

Valerian blooming around a birdbath .

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