Tiki-style pond and lush courtyard at the Galicic Garden

If you consciousness you’ve seen a batch of sum of Washington gardens lately, it’s true. This is my 26th station astir the Puget Sound Fling circuit successful July. While I person a fewer much posts astir places I saw connected my own, including Gillian Mathews’ garden, Seattle nursery Ravenna Gardens, the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum, and Washington’s 3 nationalist parks, contiguous is my last Fling post. My chap hot-climate readers, I anticipation these virtual tours person helped you get done the summer, arsenic they person for me. And present our ain glorious gardening play approaches, hooray!

The last plot connected the Puget Sound Fling’s bonus time was the Galicic Garden, wherever the owners enactment euphony connected outdoor speakers and a dispersed of nutrient and portion connected the patio and welcomed america to unbend oregon explore. I explored first, naturally. The beforehand plot gave maine New Orleans courtyard vibes. A graceful fig spills h2o into a circular pool, surrounded by palms, magnolia, and extravagant hydrangeas.

Those hydrangeas — elephantine corsages of purple — ascent up into a thenar tree’s shaggy trunk.

Moody

The water-carrying fountain fig arsenic seen from 1 side…

…and the other.

Another hydrangea flanks a comfortably furnished beforehand porch.

Towering lilies scent the air.

Another nuzzles a boulder.

Silvery eryngium gleams.

Pie-chart thenar leaves

In the backyard, a 3,000-gallon pond features waterlilies, ample koi, and cascading waterfalls.

Waterlily

A waterfall splashes into the pond adjacent to a lacy, ironwork gazebo with a array inside.

Another waterfall, fractional hidden by lush foliage, cascades alongside a thenar histrion decorated with tiki masks.

Purple-and-white clematis

More amusive tiki decor adds to the tropical ambiance of the backmost garden.

Loosestrife (Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla) looking pretty

A plot country of Japanese maples volition beryllium glorious successful the fall.

In a fenced rootlike garden, blueberries were ripening.

Pink clematis…

…and a veined, orange-red abutilon adhd color.

A airy hydrangea stands retired against a rusty reddish Japanese maple.

Steely bluish echinops

In the beforehand garden, Austin’s Jennie Ostertag, a first-time Flinger with a fashionable TikTok called @JennieGardens, gathered a twelve Flingers to marque a creation video.

Jennie brought truthful overmuch vigor to the Fling. Here’s a inactive from her TikTok creation that beauteous overmuch sums up the amusive everyone was having. Want to ticker the creation video she made? Of people you do! Here’s the link.

Organizers Paula Rothkopf and Camille Paulsen enactment unneurotic an unthinkable Fling acquisition for us. Huge acknowledgment to them and their helpers, including Gillian Mathews, who enactment unneurotic the plot lineup for the bonus time successful Seattle, for showing disconnected their portion truthful beautifully. What a fantastic 5 days successful Tacoma and the Puget Sound portion it was!

If you’re speechmaking this and wondering if the Fling is for you, check retired the Fling website for details. The Fling is an yearly meetup and multi-day plot circuit successful a antithetic metropolis each year, unfastened to anyone with a nationalist societal media relationship astir gardening. If that’s you, we anticipation you’ll see joining america adjacent twelvemonth successful Memphis, Tennessee, June 5-8! And if you’d beryllium funny successful hosting the Fling to stock the gardens and civilization of your city/region with 100 plot writers, photographers, and influencers from crossed North America and beyond, contact maine directly.

This ends my sum of the Puget Sound Fling. I anticipation you’ve enjoyed the plot tours! For a look backmost astatine the adventurous and romanticist Livingston Garden, click here. Stay tuned arsenic I stock implicit the coming weeks about Ravenna Gardens nursery, Chihuly Garden and Glass, nationalist parks, and different gardens I visited successful Washington earlier the Fling began.

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