Friday garden field trip
May 12th, 2011
Sigh. What else can you say in response to these gorgeous, white bleeding hearts?
Well, this field trip was LAST Friday, but you’ll enjoy my photos all the same. If you don’t know about the July 22-25th Garden Bloggers Seattle Fling, then check it out here.
My pals Lorene, Marty and Mary Ann and I were persuaded to “host” this horticultural free-for-all that can be best decribed as a weekend of garden touring and networking for bloggers around the globe.
Lorene and I headed out last Friday to scout a couple amazing residential gardens that we want to include on the tour, as well as the Bellevue Botanical Garden. It’s truly still spring here in Seattle; I’ve been away for four years, living and gardening in Zone 10-+, but I don’t remember this persistent rain, wet, gray, chilliness as late as mid-May. So when you see the photos I took on May 6th, you might be surprised! They look very April-ish, don’t they?
Even still, it was exhilarating to have a glimpse of the soon-to-arrive “season” of blooming and unfurling. Please enjoy along with me:
What a sultry combo, spotted at Michelle and Christopher Epping's garden in Newcastle. This will be a stop on the Bloggers' Fling. Yummy Rodgersia + sooty-black Mondo grass.
I love this modern, see-through, cube-planter at BBG. I want one, preferably in this gorgeous weathered steel.
More steel, this time in an orb, suitably displayed in a bed of tumbled riverrock.
Stone totems paired with grasses create a lovely entrance at the Bellevue Botanical Garden.
May 14th, 2011 at 12:28 am
I love the rock totems. Some of them look as though they are balanced precariously. Did you learn the trick to keep them upright? Also especially like the fresh Rodgersia leaf in the black mondo grass.
May 14th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Cannot wait to see Seattle in full summer glory. I’ll be there with bells on! Thanks for all your hosting efforts, Debra!
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May 19th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Even we are still getting drenched! May need to get some WD-40 to squirt in my joints. They sound like they are rusting!