flashback: 21 June 2010 — a garden and a nursery
Jun 21, 2010 by Tangly Cottage
entering…
...the Judy Montoure and Dorian Sanchez garden, Olympia
We began our day’s tour with a city sized garden in Ruston and after several large acreages we’ve returned to a garden which could be achieved without enormous wealth. Other garden tourists would have traversed our route in reverse order as these same gardens were open on Friday for people driving up that day from the south.
- a city-sized garden
tropical hideaway; owner Judy said the bananas were usually much taller by now, but it had been a tough winter.
patio
gold standard
arbour
details
- in the corner…
a gleaming modern water feature
and hot colour echoes.
orange shout out to orange
and so we depart
with a last look back…
and so we depart…
We had arrived at this garden with less than half an hour before the official tour’s end and still had a short drive to our rendezvous point with Allan, who was driving down from his father’s house in Seattle.
I now had several firm ideas to take home: make a river of Geranium ‘Rozanne’, plant tall alliums in clusters, prune my contorted filbert up high, and create some kind of homage to the flint rock walls of northern England. Also, dividing row of Dutch iris (even though I normally would never plant bulbs in a tidy row), bridges, ponds, guest houses….marry into money? Oh dear.
We met Allan in the parking lot of the Fairie Gardens nursery in Tumwater. He had found it online as a potential rendezvous spot. While I still coughed and rattled from bronchitis or whatever had plagued me all weekend, he quickly loaded my plants from Sheila’s car to ours so she could take off to her Oregon home. We bid our farewells, and then Allan and I entered the nursery. After all, we still had room for a few more plants.
Fairie Gardens Nursery, Tumwater
What a find! I found out later when looking through the Fairie Gardens website that the owner had a hand in the Stanford garden, the one with the 130 tons of boulders recreating the feel of the Edinburgh Botanic garden.
the nursery
From the street, it looks like you’ve found an avid gardener’s home, until you pass the very small sign at the entrance.
entering Fairie Gardens nursery
And it is a gardener’s home but a nursery as well.
“This way to the magical garden and nursery.”
We could see some weeding was in progress and we well know how hard it is to keep up.
street corner beauty
love in a mist
farther in
a little pond
a shady path
another pond view
a joyous quotation
Allan admiring the sunny border
And behind the house, we found the plant sale tables, where we found all sorts of great, collectible plants…not your usual fare. I even found a Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (although I would need many more to make my rivers of it). It is fairly common in city gardens but not as easy to come by at the beach. Since then, I’ve gotten all I need from The Basket Case Greenhouse.
ah, cool plants for sale
I liked the nursery, the gardens, and their owner a great deal and would shop here regularly if I lived anywhere nearby.
We stayed on to buy plants till the nursery’s 5 PM closing time. I asked Allan to program our Garmin to avoid freeways….I was desperate for a quiet way home via Pe Ell after a weekend of city freeways. Our quiet poky route led us to one more fascinating….non-garden…on the way home.
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