McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon is a former poor farm turned restaurant/hotel/brewery/winery/theater/golf course. Heck, they even have a glass-blowing studio.

Of course, my favorite attraction is the incredible landscaping! Here are a dozen interesting and unusual plants I saw there this year while exploring the grounds (in chronological order, more or less)

Pretty sure I killed this as a houseplant once. Pineapple broom (Cytisus battandieri, a.k.a. Argyrocytisus battandieri) is a shrubby tree in the legume family from Morocco with blossoms that are supposed to smell like pineapple. I couldn’t get much scent when I saw this beauty blooming in mid-May, but it was fantastic nonetheless. It likes very poor, dry, sandy soil and full sun. It reaches 10-20 ft. and is hardy to zone 7a.