[net-gold] INDOOR GARDENING : GARDENING : PHOTOGRAPHS : A Wild and Playful Portland Garden
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- Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 11:30:25 -0400 (EDT)
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INDOOR GARDENING :
GARDENING :
PHOTOGRAPHS :
A Wild and Playful Portland Garden
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A Wild and Playful Portland Garden
Crafted humor, whimsical color, and seriously lush horticulture blend in
one of the city's greatest backyards.
Published May 1, 2014, 9:00am
By Randy Gragg
Portland Monthly
Featured Homes
Garden Design
http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/home-and-garden/featured-homes/
articles/creative-portland-garden-design-may-2014
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/l7zsfnz
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As Cynthia Woodyard likes to tell the story, she married her garden.
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The affair began in 1972, when she moved with her then-husband into a
20s-era Arts & Crafts bricker in Sylvan Heights, built with a picturesque
flair by an English contractor and his Scottish wife. Woodyard liked the
lot: it had five sides, none of them parallel.
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Early flirtations included an herb garden, and then some vegetables. The
relationship evolved. Woodyard put up a fence and, with her father and
brothers, rebuilt a tattered greenhouse once occupied by a giant lilac.
She tried her hand at perennials and, one day, put some out in a garage
sale. Buyers snapped them up. Within a couple of years, Woodyard had lines
down the block from her garage for an annual sale of hostas, astors,
irises, and campanulas.
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She and her husband divorced in 1988. Her horticultural soul mate became a
passport.
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[The garden] was my freedom, Woodyard says, recalling how she once made
$11,000 from one three-day sale. Her talent with perennials earned her
landscape design jobs with Portlands elite families and funded travel
abroad to learn more. The lessons, in turn, took root at home in her own
three-quarter-acre phantasmagoria.
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No xeriscaping here. Think English Victorian meets early Walt Disney;
Edward Scissorhands snipping a topiary bubble bath to a French pop beat.
Woodyard is fearless, freely mingling the sturdiest hardy plants with
delicate exotics. (Many spend winter in a heated garage.) The density of
her contrastsspiky and soft, espaliered, climbing, and upright, green upon
green upon greenattests to plenty of long mornings and evenings with the
soaker hose. Any real gardener only hand-waters, she says. You get to know
the plant, what it needs, whats eating it.
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The textures, the shapes, the juxtaposition of formal and informal
plantsnot everyone can do that, but she sure can, says esteemed local
landscape architect and garden historian Wallace K. Huntington. Cynthia
can grow hostas like no one in the slug belt. Theres not a chewed leaf.
And she handles boxwood better than anyone Ive ever seen. She uses it so
imaginatively that there isnt any longer a memory of ancient pictorial
gardens.
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And then there is her humor. Woodyard likes balls:
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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