It was snowing when I left Queen Anne hill on Friday morning, but the sun beamed through before I'd reached Vashon Island. I was scouting a story about the Vashon garden tour (June 27 & 28). Organizers have recruited some very special gardens this year - stay tuned for a story and photos in Pacific Northwest mag in early June.
Vashon Island is gorgeous this time of year - pastures full of pygmy goats, horses, and llamas, sweeps of fruit trees in hazy white and pink bloom. Here are a few of the spring sights, and a teaser for the garden tour....
If you think you're behind on pruning back your lavender, imagine the task ahead of this Vashon gardener with an entire front landscape of lavender....
A labyrinth in tour chair Anita Halstead's front garden - what a great way to cover the ground
I wonder if gardeners on Vashon realize how lucky they are to have such a stylish and well-stocked nursery as DIG Floral and Garden, which is one of my favorite nurseries anywhere....Proprietors Sylvia Matlock and Ross Johnson have created a destination full of cool plants and clever ideas...here are a couple of DIG scenes: a water feature made of sewer pipes, and a little outdoor seating area on gravel - shows that a great outdoor rug can create a comfy scene just about anywhere...
Narcissus in full bloom, and one of many pebble mosaics in one of the tour gardens.
