What a lovely tribute to your Portland garden - made me a little emotional! I am right there with you - very influenced by Floret (I spent a lot of time with my dad photographing snow geese in Skagit Valley WA) and a Portland Nursery devotee. It's a special place for sure, but COVID sure did lay bare that family and friends nearby was something many of us took for granted. You can always come back and visit, it will be here - though not as charmingly Portlandia-ish anymore I'm afraid.
Thank you! We moved there in 2015 and even then people were complaining how much it changed, but it seems like a different place today. I still love it though. I'll definitely be back--a dream is to move back one day, for sure. The Skagit Valley looks so beautiful! We only drove past it, never through.
What a lovely tribute to your Portland garden - made me a little emotional! I am right there with you - very influenced by Floret (I spent a lot of time with my dad photographing snow geese in Skagit Valley WA) and a Portland Nursery devotee. It's a special place for sure, but COVID sure did lay bare that family and friends nearby was something many of us took for granted. You can always come back and visit, it will be here - though not as charmingly Portlandia-ish anymore I'm afraid.
Thank you! We moved there in 2015 and even then people were complaining how much it changed, but it seems like a different place today. I still love it though. I'll definitely be back--a dream is to move back one day, for sure. The Skagit Valley looks so beautiful! We only drove past it, never through.