Spring Backyard Garden Tour | Darcy's Portland, Oregon Garden in April (Zone 8b)

This video was filmed in mid-April 2025 in my NE Portland backyard—a 50×100 foot city lot I've been gardening for 25 years. I call it my living laboratory: the place where I test plant combinations, work through design ideas, and figure out what actually performs. In this walkthrough we move through the whole back garden—from the shaded north side to the sunnier south border—taking in the garden rooms, foliage combinations, and the color connections that knit a collector's garden together. Mid-April in Zone 8b means most of the interest is still coming from foliage and form, with a lot of flower power queued up and just about to go. Plants I grow and the combinations I've worked out over the years are documented on eGardenGo—with descriptions, photos, and planting ideas you can use in your own garden. 🔗 Explore plant combinations → https://www.egardengo.com/explore-pla... 📸 FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM   / egardengo_app   Thanks for stopping by and touring my garden! —Darcy Daniels Garden Designer & Creator of eGardenGo www.egardengo.com ______________ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & welcome 0:35 Backyard overview & layout 1:12 Seating areas & garden rooms 2:48 Color connections—foliage & flower 3:36 Mid-April timing & what's to come 4:02 Clematis trellis & small seating area 5:02 Plant identification—Choisya, rhododendrons 6:13 North side narrow border & shady treasures 7:24 Pools of gold—golden foliage & Acorus 8:51 Arisaema & woodland understory plants 9:50 Blue containers & color threading 10:23 Stewartia monadelpha—cinnamon bark 11:09 South side approach & studio entry 12:00 Podophyllum pleianthum & new plantings 12:32 Small seating area experience 15:05 Dwarf conifers, Fatsia, tender succulents 15:45 Loropetalum & Japanese painted fern 15:59 Dining area & south garden view 18:59 Fence plantings—camellias, clematis, espalier 20:52 Full circle wrap-up 21:07 Closing