Summer Garden Moments

These are some highlights of my July and August garden. June garden's pictures are here:  In My June Garden  .

JULY

Last winter was pretty mild, and the annual Lobelia is proving that - it overwintered in the pot.

Its neighbor, next to it, is a baby-maple self seeded here. 

Roses. I love roses, but they aren't my favorite plants. They are welcome in my garden as long as they are healthy. So far, they are. 

Duris Cucumber Farm's Market

This season is coming to the end. One of its good memories was visiting Duris Cucumber Farm's Market in Puyallup, Washington State. 

I loved the fresh produce from its own and other farms, friendly service and lovely, cheerful decor!

Visit to PowellsWood Garden

 PowellsWood includes a 3-acre garden and a 35-acre native woodland. It's located in Federal Way, WA, just a half-an-hour away from Seattle. 

There are several distinct rooms in the garden, and the following pictures show some of them.
I also provided links to the garden's website with beautiful photographs of those rooms.

The entrance gate

Actinidia tetramera var.maloides (Rosy crab-apple kiwi)
arch leading to the Entry Garden

Visiting Lavender Farms, Sequim, WA

In July we visited three lavender farms in Sequim which is called the Lavender capital of North America. These are some pictures.

1 - Purple Haze Lavender Farm

Certified organic lavender farm

Stunning contrast

In My June Garden

There are more birds in our garden this year than ever before. So, the birdbath  gets cleaned and refilled often.

The main colors in the garden are purple, blue, pink, red and white with some occasional orange and yellow.

Peony Green Lotus. Not many blooms, but each one has character!

I don't know why, but Allium Christofii  beat other allium varieties in terms of how many bulbs were planted and how many emerged.

Аllium nectaroscordum

Very vigorous perennial phlox, variety is unknown.

I've never seen its flowers, but the leaves are the reason I got this Rhododendron.

Billardiera longiflora

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Clematis montana. Picture of the Day

Clematis montana planted at the metal arch and climbing the fir trees. Part sun.

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The Garden of Mary and Whit Carhart - Pacific Northwest Style

Vashon Island NPA Tour. July 2019.

I love this garden. It has everything to be excited about - amazing variety of plants, including those not widely used, calmness of a shade garden, lushness of a sunny garden, harmonic coexistence of natural and man-made beauty, garden art, harmony of the house and surroundings, combination of serene spots and vibrant, cheerful areas, and  the most important - the garden owners' love for plants and nature which is shining through the tapestry of foliage and flowers.
I've visited this garden several times and still have its pictures from 6 years ago. There are so many changes and additions. Everything has grown so much!

Garden  is cultivated on 2 1/2 acres and is surrounded by Stewardship forest.

Fencing is a must to keep deer away.

 The tour starts at the top of the property.

As realtors say, location, location, location!

Following a winding path down a pretty steep hill.
Strolling through the woodland garden with Japanese maples,  hydrangea, species  rhododendrons, stewartias, oxydendrons, Jacquemontii birches, locust, dogwood, ferns, shade-tolerant perennials, groundcovers (cyclamens, trilliums, violets, hepaticas, etc).... the variety is amazing.

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Agapanthus, Eunomis and Others in August's Windcliff

There was  a precious, long-awaited  piece of mail yesterday in my mailbox, the NPA Open Gardens 2020 catalog. Opening it was exciting and sad. 

Will we have a chance to visit, to thank garden owners for allowing us to browse, stroll, photograph, peek, observe, survey their gardens and to get new ideas for our own gardens?  Maybe or maybe not.

After looking through the catalog, I went back to my pictures of last year's open gardens, and before last year, and before-before last year's pictures. How many of them do I have?

Thousands... "Your computer is running out of space..."

It led to an urge to show those pictures. It also led to the conclusion that if I'll try to write a post, it will be a slow process. It's more realistic for me to let pictures, not words, lead the trail.

So, excuse me for the briefness of  my comments. 

Windcliff, the garden of Daniel Hinkley, naturalist, gardener, writer and Robert Jones, an architect. Indianola, Washington state.

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Here are the pictures, in no particular order.

Luxuriant  Hedychium

 Cautleya spicata Robusta

Description fromWindcliff's website:

 For our climate there are fewer plants better equipped to bring the garden to life in August and September than this with saucy orange flowers emerging from burgundy stems.

Widespread and variable this is a wee bit larger to 2 ft spreading to 4 ft. Full or part sun in more moist than average soils.

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