November 02, 2018
Taming a hillside with terraces and sculpture in Bonnie Berk’s garden
Seattle gardener Bonnie Berk installed terracing to tame her intimidatingly steep yard, adding large sculptures to entice visitors uphill …
More exuberance at the Sparler-Schouten Garden, part 2
More garden goodness — plants and playful garden art — in Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten’s Garden of Exuberant Refuge. Here’s Part 2 …
Exploring the Garden of Exuberant Refuge, part 1
The Garden of Exuberant Refuge is the happy creation of Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten in Seattle, colorful, quirky, irreverent, and playful …
Hanging on in the late summer garden
August can’t end soon enough for my crispy Texas garden and my own crispy self. But we had a little rain a couple days ago …
Exploring Dan Hinkley’s Windcliff, part 2
Exploring the blufftop garden at Windcliff, Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones’s garden that overlooks Puget Sound in Indianola, Washington …
Winding my way through Windcliff, part 1
Seeing Windcliff, the private garden of plantsman Dan Hinkley and architect Robert Jones, was a huge draw on the Puget Sound Fling tour …
Colorful garden with a view of Puget Sound
The Brindleys opted for flower color, masses of grasses, and sculptural focal points for their garden overlooking Puget Sound …
Heronswood’s shady woodland and tribe-influenced Renaissance Garden
Part 2 of my July visit to Heronswood, including the woodland and Renaissance Garden with its Raining Wall and fern table …
Heronswood pilgrimage: House garden and formal garden
I visited Heronswood in Puget Sound, a garden I’ve wanted to see for years. Here’s Part 1, featuring the house and formal gardens …
Nancy Heckler’s hydrangea-colorful woodland garden
Nancy Heckler is a plant collector with more than 100 hydrangeas alone. All those flowering shrubs made for a beautiful sight at our visit …
Pre-dinner stroll around Lakewold Gardens in Puget Sound
At estate garden Lakewold Gardens, bald eagles were nesting in sky-scraping trees, and the Puget Sound Fling had its banquet dinner …
Camille Paulsen’s Tahoma-flora garden
Camille Paulsen’s garden is a place of beautiful, Asian-inspired garden rooms and patios, many of them with views of Mount Rainier …
Next-door gardening neighbors at Puget Sound Fling
Two gardening neighbors in Puyallup, Washington, capitalize on sloping lots and great views of Mount Rainier …
Plants and garden art at VanLierop Garden Market in Puget Sound
Shopping for plants and garden art at VanLierop Garden Market in Sumner, Washington, during the Puget Sound Fling tour …
