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Oregon Native: Pacific Anemone

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Plant Name:  Anemone multifida
Common name:  Pacific Anemone, Red Windflower
Plant type:  Perennial
Height:  1’ – 3’
Spread: 12” – 18”
Bloom Time: May – August
Flower Color:  Yellowish-White Within; Greenish or Purplish Outside; May Bear Red Sepals; Pinkish Seed head Follows.
Exposure: Sun to Shade
Soil Requirements:  Moist; Sandy/Loamy Soil; Fast Draining
Water Needs: Medium
Attributes:  Seed pods are curious & fully ripened are a mass of fluff; Deer Resistant
Note: Because the species is so variable & local, it is especially important to choose material from nearby sources & habitats that match your site; Poisonous Plant Parts.
Uses: Woodland Garden; Rock Garden, Native Garden,
Native to:  Northwestern & Northeastern North America
Oregon Native: YES
USDA Hardiness Zone:  4 – 9

Report by: Viki Ashford, AGC Member and Master Gardener

Photo by: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fall Wreath ( How-to)

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Member Melody Jones created a beautiful Fall Wreath from her leaves.
Below are her instructions on how to make it.
1. Collect, Press and Dry Leaves. Melody used an old phone book to press her leaves.

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2. Once the leaves are dry, take 8-10 leaves and make a bundle.
    Use floral tape to hold them together.
     Make lots of bundles, enough to cover the wreath frame.
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3. Place leaf-bundles one at a time on a metal wreath frame, and secure with floral tape or wire. Layer to make it full.
4. Continue adding bundles until the wreath frame is covered.
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Melody’s Wreath

Oregon Native: Thimbleberry

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Plant Name:  Rubus parviflorus

Common name:  Thimbleberry
Plant Type:  Perennial Shrub
Plant Height: 4’ – 8.2’
Spread: 4’ – 8’
Bloom Time: Spring; Fruit Mid to Late Summer.
Flower Color: White
Exposure: Sun to Part Shade
Soil Requirements:  Moist, Fertile, Fast Drainage; Slightly Acidic.
Water Needs: Moderate to High
Firewise:  Yes    *Please Note: Firewise does not mean Fire Proof!
Attributes:  Hosts several Butterflies & Moths; Attracts Birds
Note: Thornless. If Fruit is priority:  Remove fruited canes immediately after harvest; leave non-fruiting canes to overwinter.  Possible Problems:  Leaf spot, anthracnose, botrytis, powdery mildew, root rots, verticillium wilt, raspberry mosaic, cane borers & crown borers, aphids.
Uses:  Bird Garden, Native Garden, Hedge.
Native to:  Western North America
Oregon Native:  YES
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 – 10

Report by: Viki Ashford, AGC Member and Master Gardener

Photos from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflowers website taken by Terry Glase

For more information on Thimbleberries: https://calscape.org/Rubus-parviflorus-(Western-Thimbleberry)

Lithia Park- Japanese Garden

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Japanese Garden

Ashland’s Japanese Garden in Lithia Park is closing soon to be resigned. This project has been in the works since 2018, but the physical work starts this month (Nov 2020) and will take 2 years to complete. Ashland Parks & Recreation is working with landscape designer Toru Tanaka to create an authentic Japanese Garden. Mr. Tanaka was trained in Japan and has more than 35 years of experience creating Japanese Gardens. He is the founder and president of Portland Landscape Design and Japanese Garden Specialty. Ashland’s new garden was made possible by a generous grant from Jeff Mangin, and the Marechal family of Normandy, France, who donated all the funds for this new Japanese Garden in remembrance of Jeff’s wife, Beatrice Marechal.

Article by: Carlotta Lucas, AGC Member

Photos by: Lucretia Weems, AGC member