A little shopping at Ravenna Gardens in Seattle

I can’t bargain the plants astatine Ravenna Gardens successful Seattle — I mean, wherefore torture them by bringing them location to Texas? — but I inactive emotion buying determination due to the fact that of however beautifully they show plants, pots, and garden/home decor. I first visited during the Seattle Fling successful 2011. Thirteen years later, portion successful Seattle earlier the Puget Sound Fling 2024 kicked off, I made a peculiar travel backmost to Ravenna Gardens.

Let’s cheque retired the works displays first. They’re gorgeous successful harmonizing colors…

…or successful bold contrasts.

I covet these metal-grid arches.

This was my archetypal hint of the hydrangea extravaganza that awaited maine astatine Fling gardens successful days to come.

Bright-green wood grasses are acceptable disconnected with cobalt pottery.

Inside, the merchandising is conscionable arsenic appealing, starting with a Zen array of pebbly decor and grey tillandsias.

Lemon-lime plants and pots exude summertime freshness.

This show is giving Italian countryside vibes.

Yellows and blues evoke coastal freshness.

Ravenna carries books too. I spotted writer Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb.

And 3 books I’ve reviewed astatine Digging: Jennifer Jewell’s Under Western Skies (Jennifer is my archetypal Garden Spark talker of play 8, and a fewer tickets remain if you privation to attend), Claire Takacs’ Dreamscapes, and Dan Hinkley’s Windcliff.

Also my person Loree Bohl‘s encouraging Fearless Gardening.

I’m amused to spot that babe caput pots are still a thing.

More babe heads

I emotion this greenish pottery mixed with terracotta.

A ready-made works gift

I went done the store doubly and recovered respective acquisition items to bring home. By the way, I besides visited the plot of Ravenna laminitis and erstwhile proprietor Gillian Mathews portion I was successful Seattle for the day. Click for my afloat tour!

If you missed my sum of the Puget Sound Fling, which is wherefore I was successful Seattle, click the nexus for each those plot tours.

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