IN THE GARDEN

Lee welcomes you to another photographic tour of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The tour will include landscapes, and feature the use of natural materials that can be adapted for home gardens.

Grand sweeps of colorful massed plantings inside the flower and garden show help to counteract the grey and misty weather outside. They offer inspiration for our own gardens during the coming weeks. Even small groups of colorful hardy flowers provided ideas for tiny spaces around decks, trees, and in planters.

Lee and Roger invite you to escape into a fragrant garden paradise at the garden show! Begin with views of plants that can bring a touch of the tropics into your own home.

Our Everett garden in February is showing some bright spots of color and a variety of textures. Although these are evident to even a casual observer, a closer look is needed to fully appreciate the subtle beauty in the late winter garden. We invite you to view these early signs of coming spring!

Just in time for October, Lee’s photos capture brilliant visual icons of fall! You are invited to enjoy the colorful reds, oranges, and golds of the season in maple leaves, pumpkins, fruit and flowers.

Join Lee and Roger on an Edmonds walk as they admire colorful fall flowers in gardens and in Saturday market bouquets.

You are invited to join Tim, Lorelie, Cathy, and David on their visit to the restored Heronswood garden in Kingston.

Let’s continue our stroll through Heronswood as we move from the formal garden and enter the Woodland Garden, with its many collections of ferns, hydrangeas, and native plants shaded by giant conifers.

In previous posts, David Ziegler, photographer, delighted us with photos in a KALEIDOSCOPE OF  FLOWERS and STUDIES IN PERSPECTIVE. David, while visiting Heronswood Garden,  asks us to pause and enjoy the individual blooms that collectively fill the landscape with color.

You are invited to join Tim, Lorelie, Cathy, and David on a visit to the restored Heronswood garden in Kingston.

The original garden was centered around the home of Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones, who moved there in 1987. During their stay on the 15 acre property, Hinkley and Jones developed a formal garden near their house, and expanded the scope of their vision with a nursery and exotic plants which they found on their world travels.

In 2000, Heronswood was sold to the Burpee Seed Company, which later declared bankruptcy, so by 2006 the garden was closed.

After years of neglect the Port Gamble S’Kallam Tribe purchased Heronswood at auction and became dedicated to rediscovery of lost plants and development of new garden areas and collections.

Roses are often called “THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS”, rich in history, beauty, and symbolism. Art, religion, and literature have featured rose motifs since ancient times and in many cultures.