Skyler and Allan, the people who live with Skooter of Tangly Cottage Gardening, invited Rhody and me to tour their home gardens while vacationing in the Pacific Northwest. It has become an annual event. I always leave with a trunk load of interesting and unusual species. I will post pictures of some of such acquisitions from this tour next week. These six pictures are from the home gardens of Tangly Cottage Gardening, although I did take rooted bits and a potted specimen of two of them. After taking these pictures, Rhody and I stayed for lunch and a visit, but did not leave too late to avoid driving in the dark. More pictures of our tour can be seen at Tangly Cottage Gardening.
1. Primula X pruhonicensis ‘Old Port’ primrose exhibits luxuriantly rich burgundy floral color. This name is merely a guess, since I actually have no idea what cultivar this one is.
2. Hyacinthoides hispanica, Spanish bluebells is unfortunately a bit too aggressive here, which is why I have not tried it at home. It could be docile in a chaparral climate though.
3. Rubus spectabilis, salmonberry is native and grows wild in Ilwaco. I would have asked for cuttings if I had not already acquired it. I will compare its fruit to other cane berries.
4. Vinca minor ‘Alba Variegata’ periwinkle is not as invasive at home as it is elsewhere. I procured a few bits because I like its white flowers, and may learn to like its variegation.
5. Pulmonaria officinalis ‘Bowles’ Blue’ lungwort, along with cultivars that bloom white, pink and purple, were excellent acquisitions also! Its cultivar name is merely conjecture.
6. Skooter approved of my acquisitions from his Tangly Cottage Garden, which includes quite a bit more than periwinkle and lungwort. I will get pictures of them for next week.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
Incredible burgundy color of this primula : a color we don’t see much around here
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Yes, that is why I got its picture. Although I am not so keen on Primula, I am impressed by this color.
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Skooter is my favorite, but of course all the plants you share are fabulous, too. 🙂 I didn’t realize the Salmonberry flowers were so beautiful. I think I’ve only had the berries a couple of times, when I was out west visiting family.
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The picture makes the salmonberry flowers seem bigger than they really are. They look like big and colorful blackberry flowers.
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That is a wonderful primula. Do you know who Bowles is? I think there is a vinca named after him?
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I have no idea who Boles is. There is also ‘Bowle’s Mauve’ wallflower.
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Scooter grows such interesting plants! (Though I hear he has help). That color on the primula is incredible as are the Salmonberry.
John
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Skooter does not actually grow them. He merely supervises. The salmonberry really got my attention because I thought that only cultivars bloomed with that color. I thought that the wild type bloomed white like blackberries.
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Followed the link from Rambling in The Garden. Looks like you got a very nice haul from a garden chock full of nice and interesting plants.
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Oh yes! My simpler garden can barely accommodate all that comes from Tangly Cottage Garden. Some of it goes into the landscapes at work, where I can get propagation stock from it later.
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A great haul Tony. The primula is such a lovely shade of red. I only have shades of yellow and a pale pink. In my first garden they came up in the lawn in all variations of purple, red, pink and white, as well as the more common yellow. But those small old-fashioned wild ones are never cultivated by nurseries it seems.
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These are flowers that were blooming in Skyler’s garden, of Tangly Cottage Gardening. Although I got copies of the periwinkle and pulmonaria, the haul that I got includes several other species that I will get pictures of for next Saturday. They are not as colorful yet because they are not blooming, but I am very pleased with them, particularly since some of them happened to be species that I wanted to acquire.
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Really good pics! Those darn bluebells were here when we moved in. I have to pick my battles so I let the, be in a corner of the woodland area. It’s the closest I will get to a bluebell wood. The vinca is, I think, maybe on the noxious weed list here. It was also here when we moved in and some of the roots are under the house so I do co exist with it, for now.
Sure was great to see you and Rhody!
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Rhody is pooped now! He will be fine when his crew arrives in the morning. Although Vinca major is invasively naturalized here, Vinca minor is much more docile. It can spread in the typical manner, by creeping, but does not seem to produce viable seed.
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