Wordless Wednesday: My Garden Mythology as Seen by Examining My Roots (Home, on the Sandy River, and in the Gorge)

Achillea 'Moonshine'. 

Sicilian Honey Garlic, (Allium siculum aka Nectaroscordum).

Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina) and an Armeria.  

Dutch Iris, Iris x hollandica.

Miniature Climbing Rose, (Rosa 'Clove Love and Kisses'). 

Columbine, (Aquilegia 'McKana's Giant'.) 

Clematis 'Mrs. N. Thompson'. 

Growing up beside streams and rivers in the PNW this is how I learned to arrange rocks. Funny I still do this in my garden. (Note the fly fishing going on in the background. Fish are to my family as plants are to me.)

Great landscaping at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery in the Columbia River Gorge. (I think those white flowers are Queen Anne's Lace, Daucus carota.)

Salal (Gaultheria shallon) with a delicate white bloom—such a great native plant. 

Native rose growing along the Columbia River. 

Native Sedum. 

Oregon Iris, (Iris tenax) in front of the Multnomah Falls Lodge.

Green Walls—PNW style. 

My favorite little native Mimulus still clings to the wall at Multnomah Falls. This year the population looks a bit larger.  

Had to zoom into the falls to get a closer look at the exposed roots of this tree or shrub.