Another Northwest Perennial Alliance Tour Saturday with Alison found us touring the Kirlkand garden if Tia Scarce. A relatively young garden (started in 2006) the Scarce garden had lots of wonderful secrets to discover.
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Tia bought this owl home some time ago placing it on the table to decide where it's permanent home might be. Maybe it's found its place already!
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Seems everyone is orange crazy these days. Gotta say that I like it too and this piece, brought home from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, is delightful.
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What is the appropriate song to sing while cooking one of these? Gnome, Gnome on the Range...
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Speaking of things that are becoming more and popular, here's an agave planted ITG. As Loree said in one of her recent posts, "there are always agaves if you look hard enough."
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Colorful way to block a pathway! I use five gallon buckets that were free. There are usually a few of them strewn about full of weeds and stuff that has recently been pruned from plants. Usually they're unintentionally in the middle of some pathway and I end up tripping over them. But I digress.
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I never tire of seeing Mahonia 'Soft Caress.' Such a wonderful plant! This garden also contained a huge specimen of Stachyurus salicifolia but my pictures didn't do it justice. You'll just have to imagine it, 7 -8 feet tall and nearly as wide. Gorgeous!
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Lots of hidden objects to be found in this special garden. My hat's always off to folks who open their gardens to others. Thanks Tia for being such a nice host and for a lovely start to our day of garden touring!
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Is this a cool potting bench or what?
Everything in this garden is placed with a great deal of thought.
The pieces in turn invite the observer to think or at least to smile a little.
Tia bought this owl home some time ago placing it on the table to decide where it's permanent home might be. Maybe it's found its place already!
Appealing use of an empty container. So much about this composition makes it work well.
What is the appropriate song to sing while cooking one of these? Gnome, Gnome on the Range...
Speaking of things that are becoming more and popular, here's an agave planted ITG. As Loree said in one of her recent posts, "there are always agaves if you look hard enough."
Cute bird house façade.
These fun spheres popped up in various spots around this bed.
An attractive pot grouping.
I never tire of seeing Mahonia 'Soft Caress.' Such a wonderful plant! This garden also contained a huge specimen of Stachyurus salicifolia but my pictures didn't do it justice. You'll just have to imagine it, 7 -8 feet tall and nearly as wide. Gorgeous!
Notice how the circle motif of the pot is echoed in the rusty metal artwork. Nicely paired indeed!
Lots of hidden objects to be found in this special garden. My hat's always off to folks who open their gardens to others. Thanks Tia for being such a nice host and for a lovely start to our day of garden touring!
