Saturday, 23 June 2018
Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend
presented by the Northwest Perennial Alliance
Soul Garden, Edmonds
…flowering currants and lots of small Japanese maples to flow and weep over the boulders. Hellebores bloom in winter, and rodgersia send up their plumes of pink flowers in springtime. This garden was featured in Val Easton’s NW Living Column, April 10. 2015.
I loathe free standing hose reels; this looks much easier.
I mean no disrespect when I write that someone would find it hard going to get me to walk a labyrinth instead of either gardening or reading a book. Maybe I should have tried it instead of lurking around the edges. You can read more about the gardener’s philosophy of labyrinth walking here, beautifully described.
interlude
On the way to the next garden, Allan photographed this seemingly abandoned greenhouse.
I think your garden in Ilwaco more closely resembles what I think of as a “soul garden”.
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I’m loving these posts about the plant study weekend gardens as I was unable to attend this year. While I admire the idea of labyrinth walking, like you, I’d be noticing work that needed to be done in the garden. Dashing off to pull a weed or move a sprinkler is probably frowned upon in this sort of meditative practice. The gardener’s description is lovely! I wonder if the abandoned greenhouse was part of a nursery? Could it be from a time when cut flowers had to be grown locally?
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Exactly what would happen to me in a labyrinth. I’m not a meditative sort. Might be worth learning but would be hard for a gardener.
I was sad you didn’t get to go!! Also sad we decided we couldn’t come to your garden on our way home. As it turned out we didn’t even have time that day to tour puyallup gardens.
Maybe we could access your garden on a bloggers get together day via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, thus avoiding freeways?
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What amazing gardens! Thanks so much for sharing. Did you see any weeds at all? Do all the gardeners do their own maintenance or would it have been rude to ask? I wonder how they keep saw fly worms from marring all those beautiful roses?
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Oh maybe saw fly worms is my rose problem. Does it make the leaves all lacy? I wonder, too, how many of the garden owners have helpers.
The Pacific and Grays Harbor MG tour picks gardens at least mostly maintained by their owners. I admire that.
I also think that any garden with a outside garden help should give a program credit to the workers. That is so rare.
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If I haven’t already done so, let me tell you my labyrinth story this weekend…
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Looking forward to it!!
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I did not know that labyrinth walking was a thing. I would have trouble having to follow a set path, and would find structured walking too restrictive.
But I like the inclusion into this garden. Something different.
To echo the poster above, it would be nice to know what gardens have outside help, and recognition for the gardeners.
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Agreed on all counts.
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