Owen’s Corvallis Garden

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The sunny parkway is home to lots of vegetables and other food plants, as well as some ornamentals.
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Food is beautiful. Arrange it with an eye for form and color, like you would an ornamental planting and you’ll have a showpiece.
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Be sure to mix in some flowers. They attract pollinators and beneficial insects and add so much beauty.
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Contrasting colors and forms make for an interesting composition.
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Making a front yard food garden beautiful respects the neighbors, who will enjoy your plantings as much as my neighbors do.
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Color is essential to any garden, even a veggie-dominated one.
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I was so pleased with my cabbage. It almost glowed from the inside, bursting with life.
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The garden includes extensive native plantings which will attract native wildlife. It’s a certified habitat garden.
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The previous owner had done a great job with the hardscape. Owen added containers and filled them with vegetables and flowers.
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This lovely space makes lots of food, including blueberries, apples, strawberries, and a wide assortment of annual crops.
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This is a great space for lounging, dining, and entertaining.
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The half barrel was painted to match the house colors and combined with other pots to create a pleasant vignette.
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The two young apple trees are special varieties that grow in a narrow spire and love containers. The apples are mighty tasty.
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An ornamental sweet potato adds foliage interest.
The backyard in winter shows off its bones.
Beauty shows up unexpectedly at times. Gardens are an adventure.
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No garden in the Pacific Northwest should be without blueberries. They’re super easy and productive.
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Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’ and Lobelia ‘Crystal Palace’ make a handsome, easy combination in a pot.
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This hanging planter grows Bacopa, bellflowers, and parsley. There’s no reason not to grow food in a hanging basket.
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Toothsome chives coexist happily with an assortment of flowers in this hanging basket.
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Basil and carrots grow in this planter, which was painted to match the house.
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Basil loves the heat that is radiated from the masonry walls.
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A purple basil this time, looking good with beets in a container.
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Red mustard looks great with this bat-faced Cuphea.
Male bees don’t have a home, so they sleep outdoors, as on this parsley inflorescence.
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Native mason bees are an important pollinator insect. This tiny bee house gives them a place to lay their eggs.
The bench is made from milled local wood.
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A fall sowing of crimson clover adds nitrogen and organic matter to the soil and in spring the flowers are loved by bees and people alike.
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Here’s a closeup of those gorgeous clover flowers.

 

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