DIG Nursery is one of my favorite destinations, even on a cold, windy Monday morning. I'm so impressed on every visit, for proprietors Sylvia Matlock and Ross Johnson have always changed the topography of the nursery, built something new, found some very cool new plants - this hard-working, innovative duo keep coming up with fresh ideas.
Sylvia says she's specializing these days in grasses, succulents, and sturdy, small evergreen shrubs - just what we need for easy-care, durable, beautiful gardens...and she stocks such an amazing range of plants that are fragrant, unusual, surprising, tantalizing....including mats of textural sedums, cheery wallflowers, scented geraniums, annual flowering vines, and tables of colorful little carexes.
A visit to DIG is both an education in plant possibilities and a wealth of design ideas - the aesthetic is simple, modern, clever, recycled...take a look....
DIG Floral & Garden
19028 Vashon Highway SW
206 463-5096
A feed trough raised up on a scaffold for a contemporary take on a shade umbrella....
Gabion walls add height and structure (that's a rooster on top, sorry I cut off its head in the photo...). A framed, textural sedum mat contrasts with the gray stone and looks almost like a window into a garden...
Close up of the sedum mat...DIG sells them ready to peel up and place in your own garden...
How's this for a cool water feature; a spillway made of rusty metal, discarded concrete culverts or pipes, and those great floating silver spheres bobbing in the biggest tank...
And here's my favorite use of an old concrete culvert - a modern doghouse with green roof for nursery dog Sophie to stay cool in on the warm days that are surely headed our way...
Yep. I definitely need to visit this place.
Posted by: Loree / danger garden | May 20, 2011 at 08:33 AM
Val, thank you for the nice write up. It was a pleasure seeing you!
Posted by: Sylvia Matlock | May 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM
As a Vashon Islander, I'm partial, but DIG really is a destination nursery, offering plant and landscape surprises for those who venture over. Even if I didn't love gardening and plants, I'd still drop in to socialize with Sophie (canine court holder) and oh, yes Sylvia and Ross aren't so bad either. ;-)
Posted by: Tom @ Tall Clover Farm | May 22, 2011 at 07:10 AM
wow, that's really nice:-)
Posted by: local nursery | May 25, 2011 at 12:22 AM
I wish this wasn't so far up the coast from Los Angeles. Grasses, succulents, sturdy evergreen shrubs -- count me in!
Posted by: Denise | May 26, 2011 at 07:23 PM