Returning to the garden after nearly a week away is always a surprise, and at this time of year even a revelation. I miss being out in the garden every day when so much is happening, and long to be on the island when I'm in Seattle....and yet, being away for awhile gives me fresh eyes to marvel at the miracle of spring.
The Japanese maples, and even the golden locust are fully leafed out (finally), and the wisteria and lilacs are sadly fading, although still sweetly fragrant. The snails and slugs had been busy during the wet week...but I tried not to look too closely at the hostas or the ligularia.
This bud on the 'Kopper Kettle' peony was a beautiful distration from the slime trails around the garden...
The lettuces, some planted from starts and others seeded in, filled in last week. That's a dwarf persimmon in the center of the feed trough, and hopefully dwarf pea pods growing behind the lettuces...
The rodgersia is blooming happily in its pot - love those slug resistant leaves...
The pots are (mostly) planted and filling in....the little upright hedge are golden yews, the purple pot holds a golden barberry, the fancy-leafed, tricolor geraniums are my favorite 'Mrs. Pollock". The mosaic paver is by Vashon artist Clare Dohna...
And the allium are blooming along with the peonies this year....more than I could have hoped to happen, as you can never plan such things. I grow them up through a Daphne odora and Spirea japonica 'Magic Carpet', spreading little shrubs whose branches help to hold the allium upright on rainy days...
Beautiful pics!
And by the way, I really, really don't like snails.
Posted by: Ginna | May 29, 2012 at 04:05 AM
Gorgeous garden!! I have never grown Alliums before..It's about time I did! Yours are beautiful, especially against the lime, green, foliage growing beneath them!
Posted by: Chris | May 29, 2012 at 01:29 PM
Val, greetings from Cannon Beach Oregon. My name is Joyce Lincoln and I have the great pleasure of representing Georgia Gerber. I have a garden project that is in need of a Georgia Gerber sculpture. We need the landlords approval to remove bamboo from a 30 ft trough in front of the gallery. The trough is 3 ft high and 3 ft. wide. The bamboo drops leaves constantly and the wind brings the leaves onto the gallery floor.
Looking through the lovely Garden Design Magazine I noticed you lived on Whibey and that there was a design in the NOv/Dec 2010 of an elongated trough shape with rounded boxwood and that would be an interesting sculptural element . We want to place the "Arctic Hare" in front of the business because its fun and it is complimentary to the design of the building .The sculpture is also vertical and the space requires a large work for visual impact and vertical presence.
I am not computer skilled enough to send this image on this site.. May I have another email address for you. I know if I said to the landlord that the editor of Garden Design said that removing the bamboo and doing something sculptural would look better it would give me the leverage of moving forward on an overall design and getting rid of a plant that is anathema to feng shui .. Having vertical lines in front of a window.. and this particular bamboo which looks sick and sheds constantly would make me very happy indeed. It would end a seven year discussion.
Northwest By Northwest Gallery celebrates 25 years in Cannon Beach. We represent all the public sculpture winners for the Sculpture Without Walls public choice vote winners. 2007 winner Wayne Chabre, 2008 winner Steve Jensen, 2009 Alisa Looney & 2010 Georgia Gerber.
Joyce Lincoln gallery director 800 494 0741
Posted by: Joyce Lincoln | June 08, 2012 at 01:37 PM