Plants and garden art at VanLierop Garden Market in Puget Sound

Lunch connected Day 2 of past month’s Puget Sound Fling was held astatine Sorci’s Italian Cafe, which conscionable truthful happens to stock a determination with VanLierop Garden Market successful Sumner, Washington. Tasty appetizers, pizza, and crockery plus plant and garden-art shopping? Yes indeed.

VanLierop Garden Market

After luncheon connected Sorci’s patio I wandered astir the nursery yard. Unlike astir of the Flingers, I beauteous overmuch ignored the plants — due to the fact that what would past successful Austin? — but enjoyed VanLierop’s charismatic displays, which see architectural salvage similar this aged baluster…

…and chill “spider flower” stakes, which I love, by welder Kimberly Johnson.

More of her welded plot art

And a balanced chromatic fountain

OK, I did look astatine plants a little. This ‘Amethyst Lips’ salvia tempted me. I haven’t seen this cultivar before. Has anyone successful Texas tried it?

Found-objects that looked consecutive disconnected the workplace were for merchantability too, mixed successful with the plants.

A small Old West spirit with a horseshoe angiosperm and barbed-wire spheres

Washington lensman Grace Hensley of Fashion Plants and Arizona rootlike gardening influencer Angela Judd of Growing successful the Garden were enjoying their luncheon hr successful the nursery yard. I ever bask seeing the mash-up of gardeners from each crossed the state (and beyond) who conscionable each different astatine the Fling.

A birdcage elevator grill made a beauteous partition decoration on the buffet line.

Inside astatine VanLierop’s, determination were displays of florals and location decor…

…mushroom objets…

…ferns and moss ribbon…

…and different beauteous things.

Plus a pianist! After a beauteous luncheon and shopping, it was clip to proceed our tour, heading to the vicinity of Fling co-planner Camille Paulsen.

Up next: The Sage-Richards Garden, positive their neighbor’s garden. For a look backmost astatine the charming Risdahl-Pittman Garden, click here.

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