Planting Strips
Troutdale, Oregon
 

      


      
In Troutdale, the
      narrow sidewalks along the emerging main street are too narrow
      to permit much greenery beyond street trees. But where the new
      "Mayor's Park" abuts the main street, color plantings
      of fescue, heathers and pink flower carpet rose spread out under
      flowering cherries, marking "inner" and "outer"
      sidewalks along the park frontage (below).

      


      
 Raised brick
      beds (above, below) complete the design near the street corner,
      where the terrain slopes downward. At the corner, a small curb
      extension is left open (below), with a simple, but effective
      rock garden echoing the rounded boulders and cobbles that are
      the trademark of the nearby Sandy River.

      
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