Portland Nursery (Stark Location)

Back to the May trip to Portland. The last visit on day one was Portland Nursery on Stark Street.  See previous visits here.  This is a large, full service nursery with lots of everything.  Here is a tiny fraction of what I saw:


Interesting vases but something smells fishy. What do you think on a scale of one to ten? I'm just glad to be fin ished with school.  Would taking one home be a gill ty pleasure? Okay, I'll stop.







Trachycarpus fortunei nicely "underplanted" with potted plants.  I do the same with some of my big pots.  It's a great place to stash plants waiting to be planted.  Sometimes they end up staying.


 Pelargonum (Geraniums) must be the single most popular bedding plant judging by the huge numbers of them carried at just about every nursery.  There's much to love - perpetual summer color, some have really cool foliage, and  I love the scent of the leaves. How about you?  People seem to love it or hate it.



Chondropetalum tectorum, one of the Restios native to the Fynbos on the western cape of South Africa.

Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' is now again widely available after a few years of being a bit difficult to find.

This gave me an idea of what to do with some of the ferns I've been hoarding.  The area where I want to plant them is full of bamboo roots but putting them in large pots disguised with wood might work really well.


The nursery goes on and on with a large selection of Acer palmatum, shrubs, trees, edibles, etc.











 Pinus contorta 'Taylor's Sunburst' has such striking new growth and is a favorite of  Phillip of Dirt Therapy. 






Sexy bromeliads singing their siren song.  However, since Rare Plant Research, where they grow a wide variety of these, was to be the first stop the next day, these remained in the shop.