Bella Madrona

I had the pleasure of being invited to attend a party at the amazing garden called “Bella Madrona” this evening. It was a fundraiser for the upkeep of this 5 acre private garden. The core group of the botanical garden folks were invited by one of our very generous volunteers. I found a terrific article about the garden with lots of in season photos if you’re interested: https://www.penick.net/digging/?p=28353
Much better photos than I took tonight!

The center of the garden is a stage that was built for the Portland based band Pink Martini - very close friends of the owner and his late husband….in fact, they hosted the event this evening, and played a marvelous set, including song they wrote featuring the garden. https://pinkmartini.com/about/
If you’d like to read more about this fabulous band. Thomas and China were performing tonight. They raised $50,000 to support the garden!

Here’s the song referencing the garden if you’d like to hear it: https://youtu.be/c4-WIABpA8g