Tia’s garden in Washington

Today ’s photos are from Tia Scarce , who says,“These photos are from my Kirkland , Washington , garden . It was eight years in the making . My finish was to make a garden that can hold up our annual dry geological period without any auxiliary water . Pesticide - destitute , only the lawn got an periodic bang with organic fertilizer . I mulched every three age or so with a rich compost . We recently sold it , prefer instead for a smaller , cheery , easy to maintain property . “Oh , Tia , I do n’t think I could have give way this firm or garden up ! But I ca n’t await to see what you do with your fresh property … ***Tia sent in so many great shot ’s that we ’ll be spending tomorrow in her garden , too ! Today leaned more toward the hardscape , while tomorrow will feature some of her stunning plant combos . stay on tune ! * * *

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Hey all ! I and a crew of the other FG editor will be at theNorthwest Flower and Garden Showagain this year , and I ’m scheduled to giveanother GPOD talk!(A few of you will be getting emails in the next two weeks as I put together the slideshow … ) A identification number of citizenry have emailed to say that they ’ll be at the show , and that they ’d love to adjoin up with a bunch of fellow GPODers !

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A landscape designer suggested this house color as a backdrop to a garden. The hot red/orange trim is my signature. I used it throughout with flowers, glass art, and a big pot not shown in these pics.

–BEFORE– The side yard looked like this before I got started. We were still cleaning up after the big windstorm of 2006.

–AFTER– The taller plants in the bed above are Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’, Acer ‘Shishigashira’, Panicum ‘Shenandoah’, and Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’.

My husband and I installed the gravel path and stepping stones as a replacement for a narrow, heaved up concrete sidewalk. I quickly gave up trying to keep it debris-free. The tall conifers won that battle.

A peek into the backyard. None of what you see here was there when we moved in in 2006 except, of course, the borrowed view from across the fence.

I included this shot of our backyard path to the shed because it shows a very satisfying DIY project (albeit in need of maintenance here). After taking out a small basketball court we used the concrete chunks to make this connection to shed from the back of the house. After some time I removed that ground cover (leptinella?) between the pieces because it was running rampant in the lawn.