The Garden Corner started with 84 hanging baskets
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Occasionally joined by Levi the border collie; Cloudtail, a Blue Ribbon rabbit; and chickens Brisingr, Coco and Tiana.
Since February 2000, Jonn has been, in his own words, living his passion. Beginning with 84 hanging baskets for the city of Lake Oswego, he and his crew now plant and maintain over 1,000 baskets throughout the year for businesses such as New Seasons, Bridgeport Village and downtown Portland. If you are out and about in the wee hours of the morning, you might see one of his eight watering trucks as they make their rounds. Those original baskets eventually evolved into the colorful and eclectic The Garden Corner in Tualatin.
When I asked Jonn how he got started in the plant business, he told me, "It was forced labor by my mother, the most serious, eclectic, strange, unusual gardener on this side of the Mississippi. When I was in second grade, sitting on the front stoop, I'd watch my mom deadhead her fuchsia baskets every summer. As I grew older, I realized
Source: OregonLive.com (blog)
FINUCANE: Despite the season, there is a lot of interest left in garden
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With our unusual stretch of warm days and lacking a hard freeze,
our fall crop of raspberries has continued to bear. It isn’t
unusual for blooms and green berries to freeze black on the stalk,
but impressive that they’ve continued so strong.
Dry beans are still hanging on the vine. We grow a good assortment
of different colors and sizes, and appreciate the unhurried harvest
and storage. We just pull the vines when they dry, pluck off the
pods and toss into a bushel basket. Shelling the beans into a
bucket or bowl is a relaxing task for a nice fall day, or can be
done in small batches while watching the ballgame or visiting. The
dried beans look pretty in a glass jar, ready to be soaked and
cooked for soups, chili or other main dishes. For quicker meal
preparation, batches of the beans can be soaked and cooked ahead
and kept in the fridge for a few days or frozen.
Beyond the vegetable garden, there are still enough flowers
blooming here and there to fill a vase. If the garden is too
sparse, or you’ve gotten overzealous in cutting plants down for the
winter, roadsides and meadows still hold a few treasures.
Source: Argus Press