But at Fort Vancouver, just outside Portland, Oregon, we had great weather.
Fort Vancouver is a [pretty good] reconstruction of the original Hudson Bay Company fort which stood on this site from the 1820s. I've been to it several times because it is a key site in the David Douglas story but Wilma Wilbury had never been.
Just outside the fort is a small facsimile of the gardens which were once there to feed the fort's inhabitants and the small army of labourers & native Americans based in the village which grew up around the fort.
The gardens are clearly only a fraction of their original size but I was pleased to see them growing Scotch Kale,
peas
and spuds.Meanwhile, nearer home, I haven't been to the allotment since we got back. But the jet lag is nearly gone now and it isn't raining much at present so I guess I must steel myself. More on the full horror of a fortnight's neglected allotment in due course.
5 comments:
Interesting growing peas up the branches, did they have strings or netting for the peas to climb up?
No, nothing like that, just the branches. I guess they may put something later when the peas are a bit bigger.
Fab piccies! Those gardens look lovely :-) Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx
I'd love to have a closer look/nosey round those gardens!
They're great aren't they. Mind you, Himself would like the fort too. There's some excellent carpentry in there. It was at the fort that I first got in touch with my US contact on David Douglas; her partner was working in the carpentry shop (he was making a coffin at the time, as you do).
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