Vanilla Leaf – Achlys triphylla
The broad leafs of the vanilla leaf perennial flower are a perfect contrast to finer textures in your native perennial boarder garden.
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Multnomah Falls Plant of the Day #13 Vanilla Leaf
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The Ever Fashionable Multnomah Falls #13
Before the foot bridge. 1914 or earlier. A post card.
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Multnomah Falls Plant of the Day #14 Oregon Iris
Oregon Iris – Iris tenax
A much smaller version of the traditional garden iris, Oregon Iris offers a delicate bloom of color in the spring. Plant in large grouping, or let one or two surprise you in a woodland planting of ferns and ground covers.
Where: You’ll find Iris tenax on the Hwy side of all three planters that sit in front of the lodge.
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The Ever Fashionable Multnomah Falls #14
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Two weeks till Multnomah Falls Makeover!
We are Counting Down!
If you were a raised planting bed with over pruned shrubs and overun by invasive weeds just steps away from the spray of Multnomah Falls, and tucked right between the architectural gem of Multnomah Falls Lodge and the world famous Historic Colombia River Hwy, you’d want a makeover too!
Saturday April 28th will be the first weekend for viewing the new plantings at the Multnomah Falls Lodge Plaza!
To celebrate we want to share some of the wonderful and interesting images that show how the falls have changed over the years. Actually, Multnomah falls hasn’t changed much at all, but the people have and with them the fashion! Oh the Fashion! You have to see what people were wearing for a day trip to the Gorge in 1930! And then, you have to plan yours!
But, before you go, read our Multnomah Falls Plant a Day posts to learn more about our favorite native plants for Multnomah Falls and your garden. The first post is already up!
Its going to be a busy two weeks! I can’t think of a better way to kick off spring.
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The Ever Fashionable Multnomah Falls #15
The caption for this photo reads:
Multnomah Falls Viewers: 1937
I took this with a Super Ikomat A during a family trip from Ohio to Oregon in our 1937 Ford. The falls, along the Columbia River east of Portland, are the same today, but the fashions have surely changed.
I found 8,000+ Flickr tags for Multnomah Falls. Most images far better than this, but no people from the 1930’s”
Taken by Don O’brian. Click on the photo to see more of his flicker photo collection.
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Multnomah Falls Plant of the Day #15 Goats Beard
Goats Beard – Aruncus sylvester
This was my absolute favorite plant last year. It’s a gorgeous addition behind your favorite perennials or infront of larger evergreen shrubs. Goats Beard has a great spring green color that makes you want to sing when it first pops. But then doesn’t every sign of spring in Orgeon?
The blooms are white tufts that stay all summer to catch the breeze and keep their interest as they dry out in the fall. I like it best planted in groups of five or more. Its like having little fluffy white clouds in your garden, floating right at your knees.
Where: You’ll find Goats Beard tucked in the planter to the far right as you face the Lodge.
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Multnomah Falls Lodge Landscape Construction
The planter beds are under renovation!
While the stone seat walls and benches are staying the planting beds, which had been infiltrated with morning glory, are getting new planting soil and an exciting new planting deign next week!
But first, the old dirt has to come out!
Next week new soil and new plants go in! Stay tuned for more progress photos next week!
And if you want to remember what it looked like before out the before pictures here.
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Kahoots is WBE & ESB Certified!
As a certified Women Business Enterprise and and a Teir -1 Emerging Small Business its easier than ever for us to serve our clients, colleagues and projects. Just one more way Kahoots is conspiring to create landscapes for the imaginative soul.
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Introducing Mud Pie Play!
See what its all about at the Nike Family Fair today at 3:30 on the Nike Campus in Beaverton.
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Jaime English is the founder of Kahoots. She has worked with GreenWorks, an award-winning firm in Portland, and The Atelier Dreiseitl in Germany.