outdoor garden
 

A few pics from my front yard garden-lots of shade
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Those are beautiful. From looking at your outdoor plants I'd have never guessed your Oregon location. How do you get them to survive through winter?

Well, to be fair, the garden looks it's best this time of year. The plants are all hardy here so I don't have to do anything-luckily. If they don't survive the get replaced. Some of the larger plants fade in the fall and by winter it's so dark and rainy no one looks at their gardens much ;)
It's pretty cool how some of the more tropical looking plants do well here. (Not like the stuff you all can grow down south of course :) )

Your yard plants are great! Full, fluffy and healthy!

How long is your growing season up there? Do the temps stay mostly mild all summer?

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed peeking at your world.

hi Debs,
We have mild summers here, get a week or two in the 90's, low humidity. Growing season is pretty long. we are just getting strawberries now and I can get tomatoes into October if the rain holds off.