Saturday, 24 July 2021
WSU Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor Garden Tour
We entered the garden at the end of a long driveway. As always, this wise sign was by the entry way.
We could immediately tell that the gardeners love music.
In the distance, we could hear pop music playing on some good speakers.
The immediate driveway garden had been planted fairly recently but intermingled with some well established trees, mostly beautiful conifers.
Wider garden beds go off to either side.
As I approached the house, the song Ten Million Fireflies, which I heard for the first time only recently and happen to find especially gorgeous, started playing. As a sign said in the previous garden, it was a moment that took my breath away.
The signs must have been fun to come up with and the numbers corresponded with a garden map that I’d been given at the entrance.
Around the side of the house was a woodsy path….
…with a most interestingly pruned bamboo that reminded me of a floor lamp.
The path led off to the right and down to a lawn on which several new and empty beds were being prepared for an ambitious and expansive new planting. Because it was 85 degrees in the sun, I didn’t think to take a photo of those.
Behind the house, beds around a new fire circle were newly planted.
We liked the shakes on a shed and the cute and friendly dogs within.
At the edge of the woods nearby, I found the entrance to a pet memorial garden…
…and I felt sentimental, of course.
The walk back down the driveway included more garden sights.
This time, I crossed over to the impressive fenced kitchen garden that I’d noticed on the way in. I didn’t go inside because I wanted to return to the shade.
Down by the road again, Allan noticed the trunks of a tree and wondered what it was. I do not know.
I hope that this garden returns to the Grays Harbor tour in a few years so that folks can see the new gardens all grown up. I’d love to see what the gardeners do with the empty lawn beds.
