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Janet Loughrey has been a full - time garden lensman and author for 25 years . She go and gardens in Portland , Oregon ( USDA Zone 8b ) . antecedently , Janet gardened in the Adirondack area of upstate New York where she grew up ( Zone 4b/5a ) , and attended college in Arizona before moving to Oregon . see unlike climates has pass Janet a big appreciation of the gardening challenge they present .
Her study has been widely published in the U.S. , Canada and Europe in publications includingGarden Design , Better Homes and Gardens , Sunset , Horticulture , HGTV , Ortho Books , Rodale Press , Woman ’s Dayand Athlon Special Interest Publications . She is the source / lensman ofGardens Adirondack StyleandSaratoga in Bloom(Down East Books ) , as well as the sole lensman forThe Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening(Sasquatch Books ) andThe Lavender Lover ’s Handbook(Timber Press ) .
Janet is a former Oregon State University Master Gardener and was a extremity of the Garden Writer ’s Association of America ( GWAA ) for over 20 years . She was the recipient of four GWAA Quill and Trowel Awards for her photography that appeared inBetter Homes and Gardens , Country Living Gardenerand The OregonianHomes and Gardensmagazine .
In her own personal garden , Janet tends an eclectic intermixture of pink wine , shrub , perennial and bulbs on a standard city lot . Her most recent passionateness is grow one-year flowers in containers and from seminal fluid . She also enjoy growing , harvest home and corrode fresh heirloom tomatoes , peppers , greens and other vegetable crop . Janet ’s garden also serves as an outside studio where she creates many of her photos .
Janet ’s employment can be viewed on herwebsite , on-line storeandInstagram .
" My garden is cottage - style and very informal . I like dozens of colouration , the more , the beneficial . I am lucky to have an amazing perspective even though I last in the thick of a big metropolis . "
" Everything come together in this engaging vignette of clematis , ‘ Ballerina ’ ascend , hydrangea and ‘ Lucifer ’ crocosmia . "
" The garden foreman is my cat Tonka , who keep up me around like a bounder and only move out of doors with close supervising . Her favorite plants are Nepeta cataria and grass . "
" I enjoy trim flowers from the garden all time of year long . "
" My favorite annual combination is orange bidens and blue pimpernel ( Anagallis ) . "
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