This hidden garden, two blocks from the Portland Rose Test Garden and Japanese Garden, overlooking Washington Park and Mt. Hood, rests on a 3/4 acre flat lot. It is both an historic house and garden, built in 1929. The original garden was designed by Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The garden contains several of the original architectural details, stonework and plants, including a pieris hedge, camellias, rhododendrons and a large Styrax tree, which shields the house and garden from the busy street. It has been intensely gardened for most of those years, including the 44 years that our family has lived here. The house and garden were built on fill dirt, which allows the house and garden to be elevated several feet above the surrounding homes and creates a vast borrowed landscape.
The garden is informal, fluid in style, continuing to evolve as new hybrids and unusual plants become available. In addition to conifers, both planted in ground and in beautiful pots, there are myriads of roses, dahlias and perennials in carefully matched color schemes. Ed and I both tremendously love to work in our garden, doing most of the maintenance ourselves, with help for the heavier tasks. We hope that you will come visit the garden.