Wow, it's like a secret gathering of beasts. Wonderful atmosphere.

Is that Pinsapo in the last, reptilian!

i like the stonehenge homage ...

i presume such.. rather than a boothill homage...

thx for the pics ...

ken

Main planting is well on its way to needing serious editing, the Parrotia alone is genetically programmed to fill the entire area.

Your garden looks good in the fog! That's a nice time to take pictures.

After a dry summer, I'll bet you welcome the fog. Do you ever feel, living on the Pacific Coast, you get too much?

I like it, myself,......but I'm not on the coast and don't get near as much.

Mike

Doing well there gal ,what s the cultivar in last pic

ron

Cool plants. How long have you been gardening there?

I spent two of the coldest, dampest days of my life in Eureka, CA -- and I'm from Wisconsin! The record high temp for days we were there in early-mid June was something like 76F. I may be a bit off with that, but not by much. I would struggle to deal with that day after day.

I'm guessing the last pic is an Abie pinsapo, it was an unmarked plant that I picked up at the Astoria Farmers Market a few years ago. After 11 plus years, it is clear that a few trees will need to be culled or at least trimmed. Finally, I have achieved some privacy from the tenants, our renters, behind the plantings. The property is still for sale so I'm not intruducing any more plants. Unfortunately, during this drastically dry season, I fear I lost my beloved Katsura tree. We do experience foggy days but not as much as the beach locations. We are located on the Nehalem Bay/River, a bit inland from the beach, so our weather is like a banana belt. It has been a challenge and fun selecting plants that I have longed for over the years. There is still so much I would love to do and plant but it all depends whether our property sells or not. It will be with much regret to leave behind my 12' Sciodopitys, which I've grown since it was wee high. In the meantime, I'm starting a new garden/landscape, just across the river, but this location presents new challenges. The ground is rocky, hilly, shadier and much smaller, which limits my selection in plant choices. Nonetheless, I have enjoyed and appreciate the ideas and references I have achieved by being a Garden Web member. The advise, photos and comments have been a great source of inspiration, and it has been fun to share my garden photos and foilbles, for your comments and encouragement. And yes, Severnside, it is a gathering of beasts!!!

Abies pinsapo, it is.

Mike

Probably Abies pinsapo 'Horstmann', being both vigorous and random,

beautiful garden

Plenty of dwarf conifers on the market you can use at the new place - although these can be expensive.

very nice pictures of a lovely garden enhanced by the "magic" lighting that coastal fog can provide. agree that most "collectors" gardens end up crowded because plants always grow and change so that the tiny "babies" we plant at first may become towering "behemoths" (at least for the space we often have for them) eventually--- BUT looking at the garden in the moment the picture was taken the plant placement looks quite beautiful to me---whatever "editing" may have to be done sooner or later. best wishes from "Bandon by the sea" and another collectors garden that is already starting to have some plants a little too cozily situated to one another in certain places---and I've got (nominally 10 acres to play and plant in----so many plants so little space!!!

hey George , MAKE A POST ,,,show us your plants !

your yard

your views

your successes

your failures

ron

Ron, so sorry, my "garden" is really a weird and wacky collection of plants spread over several acres. many of my "babies" are trees and many of them are already too big and/or too close together to make a decent photograph with the equipment and skill that I possess. zephyrgal's place is obviously much more suited to show pictures of.

FWIW, my collection is basically centered around pines evergreen oaks (many from Mexico) and eucalyptus and acacia from Australia. plus lots of different things from all over with a strong representation of plants from temperate areas of south America, Australia, and New Zealand.

many of the eucs (have over 25 different species) have grown over 50' in 15 years and some of the Mexican pines and oaks (also about 25 species) are around 30- 40' in the same period. what interests me is that most all of these plants have grown so well without any particular care after the first couple of years in a climate with cool and VERY dry summers and cool and wet winters even though many of the plants actually come from places with wet warm dry summers and dry winters---almost exactly opposite to what they deal with here.

the conifers planted (excluding the native species) include pinus, abies, cupressus, cunninghamia, podocarpus, sequoia, widdringtonia, fitzroya, araucaria, and phyllocladus with other genera still waiting for a "forever home", LOL.

the biggest failures for me have been palms---only a few grow here successfully and the different ones I would like to grow are either VERY slow with out lots of water and fertilizer and planted in the warmest spot available or slow and tender---especially in a cool summer climate though many of them do rather well only about 50 miles further down the coast---aaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!!.

the biggest problem is running out of easily usable space for planting as I constantly bring new plants in and now any new space with have to be cleared out (by hand) through thick stands of introduced wickedly spiny gorse and scotch broom (some 8' high or more) and native trees (fair size douglas fir, shore pine, rhododendron and huckleberry.

hope this answers some of your questions and sorry no pics to go along with and enliven my turgid prose.

Thatś ok, your prose is picturesque.

Since some of us dont know you, could you please add your zone and location? That way when you post again you wont have to add it, we wont have to ask and all will good.

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¨Add climate zone¨ please also add some geographical marker such as ¨Embothrium(USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA) or Miketan´s format

Several others posting here dont have climate info. It would be helpful to future threads, readers and yourselves to include same. Thanks.

thanks for the suggestions. my location and climate zone is Bandon, Oregon USDA zone 9a, Sunset Western Garden Book zone 5 ("upper" south coast of Oregon (approx. 75 miles from the California border). . sorry. all my original detailed profile info got "lost" in the great transition from "garden web" (where I had posted as "georgeinbandon,oregon") for many years to "houzz". hope this helps.

gal , sorry to accidentally hijack,,,,but it had to be said

ron

That's OK Ron, always good to have active discussions. A few more photos, taken today, from another view, my private side of the garden.

Very picturesque. I like it a lot.

What's the deciduous plant far right 2 photos up just entering the photo?

Dax

Thanks Dax, for the nice comment. If you look again at the first photo in the second series, you see a "lollipop" looking tree which is some sort of willow, another unmarked character, which the deer have politey have trimmed, I, also enjoy the privacy, where I can have a sip and relax and not be bothered.

Likely to be Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'.

I think dax was asking about the large leaved plant

ron

Looks like a magnolia.

That's what I was asking about and yes magnolia fits.

Thanks.

Ummm, sorry folks, I don't have any magnolias planted in the yard.

Do you know what I'm asking about? Two photos up. Far right edge of the photo. Has a large leaf. Pretty much takes up the whole right side of the photo.

Dax

Yes, Dax, it is the Salix. I don't have magnolias planted. A photo of the tree/leaves in question. Not particularly a favorite, just something I have. Hope this answers your question.

The common willow with this appearance is 'Kilmarnock'. It is often traded as 'Pendula' but strictly speaking there is no cultivar with that name, the term instead being var. pendula, with there being two cultivated representatives - a now infrequent, female 'Weeping Sally' and a recently much sold, male 'Kilmarnock'.

As with all weeping variants it is much preferred to have these placed where the branches can cascade, instead of being clipped (or browsed, in this case) to produce a silly perched or truncated effect.

Nice eye, Ron. I should've have assumed anything on my part.

Dax

P.s. thanks zgal.

ron

on the other hand ,,,leaves may only look big cause of proximity to camera

Yep, close to the camera and leaves look large. Believe me, it's a Salix, most likely as Embothrium described. A final photo from a foggy morning, my favorite, Sciadopitys.

Sciadop's are wonderful. I'm surprised I don't have any.

Ron- I may have confused you... embrothium's name is also Ron.

Dax

yes but he doesn't sign his name,,,so for rest of us...

ron