A taste of Italy in a Puget Sound garden

The archetypal 2 backstage gardens connected Day 2 of the Puget Sound Fling past period were neighbors, each gardening intensively but successful precise antithetic styles. It was amusive to research the 2 gardens side-by-side and ideate the owners bonding implicit a shared emotion of plants. Let’s commencement with the plot of Donna Andersen, a ample ceremonial plot made welcoming with comfortably furnished patios and idiosyncratic art.

Painted windows adhd a connection of religion successful a ceremonial plot border.

The proprietor was inspired by surviving successful Italy for a clip and wanted to bring European benignant to her plot successful Milton, Washington. One striking diagnostic is an arched and columned wisteria arbor moving on 1 broadside of the house.

A large, curvy tract is acceptable disconnected with an undulating borderline of shrubs, trees, and flowering plants.

Blazing reddish flowers of crocosmia

The heavy plot borderline includes a shady remembrance plot successful grant of Donna’s mother.

“Connecting with this is the St. Francis Garden successful representation of our galore mislaid fur-babies,” she says.

A weeping histrion resprouting from the trunk — tempest damage, I wondered? — made an umbrella-like centerpiece for an land bed.

Other trees including Japanese maples are beautifully layered into the garden.

Up next: The eclectic works playground of the Risdahl-Pittman Garden. For a look backmost astatine stumpery and bonsai astatine the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden and Pacific Bonsai Museum, click here.

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