A return to Floramagoria...

This is another garden that was open for the recent HPSO Study Weekend (and was also part of the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland). I was lured back by hints on Facebook that the owners had completed several new garden-projects before this opening. Plus Andrew had never seen it. We practically had to go check it out! We start in the front garden...

One, or maybe both, of these tables were here before, only I think they were in a slightly different location.

I believe this is new, and pretty fabulous...

Planted up boxes...

Are interspersed with places for tillandsias to rest.

I usually like to enter the back garden via the pathway on the other side of the house. However there was a line (!) to get in that way so we entered via the veggie garden. How nice to catch a glimpse of what I think is a new gate.

I should have counted their stock tanks, I wonder if they have as many as we do? Nah.

I always find myself wondering, is this a working tool shed or just for show (it's always so darn perfectly arranged)...

And then we rounded the corner. Oh my. That is a lot of people.

We inched our way closer to the center of the garden. There were things I wanted to be sure to show Andrew but we couldn't really get a great view of them as there were so many people! (and I'm not complaining, it was wonderful to see all the smiles)

And bromeliads! So many bromeliads...

Here's a peaceful corner. Perhaps because people were afraid to get to close to that creature?

The green side...

The blue side...

There are so many details to take in.

Is the low green wall keeping the spikes from hurting the people? Or the people from hurting the spikes?

Love this!

What a great way to fill the gap between the two walls.

And this! The metal shelving is new, I suppose to get the small containers off the wall? Or (as it would be in my garden) to double the available staging space?