Julie and Arthur took me to visit Andrew and Mari's spectacular home and garden in West Seattle late Saturday afternoon. You may recall our first visit last April. What a difference a little spring and summer can make, huh?
For your information, Mari calls garden designer and writer Thomas Hobbs "the single biggest influence on my gardening style".
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Wow. I love it! Incredible sumptuous foliage! I didn't see bunches of flowers - which is fine! (Really!) I can see a whole new direction to go in my garden...again. Thank you, thank you. Kudos to Mari and Andrew on such an inspiring outdoor home. Hands down - the most gorgeous Hell Strip in the world. And the cat gets a big thumbs up from the dog trainer. Perfect video.
This is a stunning garden. I love it! It was great to see the difference between April and now. You would have thought it took years to develop such a vision. (Perhaps, in your head!) I'm checking out Thomas Hobbs' book right now.
Nice!
I thought the open phone on the bench was a nice touch. Not a modern memento mori, but something similar.
Lucky you to get to see such luscious private gardens.
The video was great & I really loved the vibe of this garden. Here's someone who very carefully composed a work of art with plants!
Hi Chuck b.,
I'm writing a native gardening book for a nonprofit press (UC Press), and I was wondering if you might be willing to share a couple of your photos of native plants, with credit of course. Your photo of Roger's red hanging on in winter is particularly nice.
Thanks,
Helen (helen.popper@gmail.com)
Helen, you can use whatever you want.
I really like that bench, or I really like it sitting in that pool of Lysimachia.
Hi, Chuck!
I just ran across this. Very fun to have you come back when things had leafed out! Hard to believe, but it's even fuller now, as much as I try to keep things from strangling each other.
If anyone's on Facebook and wants to see my monthly albums, get in touch. The garden is still such a work in progress, but it makes me so happy when people enjoy it as much as I do.
Hope to see you again, Chuck! (And the sparkling wine was delicious, thanks. :)
Mari
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