Saturday, August 29 is the date to mark on your calendar for the Garden Conservancy Portland Open Day. In conjunction with the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, the Garden Conservancy will be opening five private gardens in the Beaverton area to ticket holders. You can find out more information here and at the end of this post.

I got to tour three of these beautiful gardens yesterday with some of my fellow Portland area garden bloggers, so we could entice you with a sneak peek of what you’ll see if you go.

The garden of Zachary Baker and Leon Livengood was formal, yet colorful, joyful, and fun. These two like to entertain, and they have a wonderful, welcoming space here for their get-togethers. This is their “dining terrace.”

I didn’t notice the spiderweb pattern on the back of the chairs until Zachary pointed out the same motif on their wrought iron gate.