A trip around the world in John Kuzma's Portland fusion garden
I first visited John Kuzma's garden in Portland, Oregon during the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling . At that time, it was still recovering from an unusually harsh winter that had set many plants back, but that didn't make it any less impressive. Last September, three years later, I had the opportunity to see how the garden had progressed . In a nutshell: splendidly! Like fine wine, fine gardens only get better with age. In what is beginning to look like a tradition, I was back at the Kuzma garden a couple of weekends ago in the company of Loree Danger Garden Bohl, Kathy GardenBook Stoner, Sean Hogan and Preston Pew of Cistus Nursery , and UK plantsman extraordinaire Nick Macer of Pan Global Plants . John and his wife Kathleen—the very definition of gracious hosts—had invited us over for drinks and nibbles. Nothing could dampen our spirits, not even the rain that started to fall in the early evening. For me, this trio of Yucca rostrata in the front is one of the hallmar...