Saturday, 23 July 2022
Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties present:
On the first year when we happily discovered this always great annual garden tour, this garden was on it. You can look back at the garden in 2016 here.
Back then, the owners had planted an orchard, which they have since removed because the apple trees had difficulties with disease and with the constant wind.
The garden is a tapestry of foliage texture and form.
In any area where foliage intermingles, each plant is carefully and artistically clipped so that each plant shows off its own beauty. I especially noticed this in a bed near the patio.
Let’s take a walk through the garden.
After touring, I sat on the patio and had a good chat with Terri of Markham Farm, who was a docent for this garden.
Allan looked over the view garden behind the house.
He also went down the stairs that I could not easily navigate.
One of the boulders at the base of the garden has the dynamite hole from the quarry. It looked to him like nine small holes with the center punched out.
That was the final garden of a glorious day, well worth a four hour round trip. We can always count on this tour to be good and are already looking forward to next year.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
What a lovely oasis of green. Makes me feel better about my own hosta-dominated front garden, a sea of green.
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I love the tapestry of colors and textures in this garden. The views are gorgeous! The patios look like a lovely place to relax and enjoy the outdoors. Thank you for giving us a tour of each of the gardens and a look at the town of Aberdeen.
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As the growing seasons increasingly ping pong between too much wet and cold, to heat and drought – this old gardener’s fancy is turning to shrubs and small conifers and grasses. And what succulents will survive being left out in those conditions all year. If I could do my garden over right now – it would look very different.
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Same. For one thing, I’d have a path cutting diagonally across each of the two huge side beds in the back garden. I might just do that as a winter project if Allan helps me move some shrubs. Not too many, just a couple. I can’t even get IN there in summer.
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