Friday, September 30, 2022

The view from the other side...

I've got to be honest, this garden made the cut as one to visit during last June's NPA Study Weekend for the simple fact that I wanted to see what it looked like to be at water-level looking out towards the 520 bridge as it crosses Lake Washington between Seattle and Bellevue. It really didn't matter what the garden looked like!

Thankfully the garden was nicely done...
 
The owners, Vangie and Daniel Pepper, say the home was completed in 2015 and the garden came just after that. There is a 30ft drop in elevation from where I entered the garden in the above photos, to where we'll eventually end up at the waters edge.


The lake, and the bridge...

Schefflera  taiwaniana

Looking down on the garden, lawn and the lake...

Another view.

Yep, now back at the house.

That's Huskey stadium (University of Washington) in the distance.

The art piece and the fire pit/BBQ are two separate things, my photo angle kind of confuses them.

The tour booklet describes the plantings at the lake-side as a pollinator meadow.

Maybe it just wasn't possible to get a better angle here, but likely my eyes weren't focused on anything but the water.

Or maybe this! It's got to be the tomato with the best view in the whole state!

I could be happy here...

Large granite chunks as steps.


They transition to rectangular pavers in the lawn.


And here more granite interplanted with thyme.

It's a great color scheme!



I wonder if the rocks were brought in for the beach?

My other posts (so far) from the NPA Hardy Plant Study Weekend:

15 comments:

  1. Breathtaking! And all those purple accents...sigh...

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  2. This home gets very high marks on the 'pretty' scale; the water access and views are amazing. If it were my garden though, I'd probably have less lawn, concrete slabs and pavers. They must be doing a lot of entertaining.
    chavli

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    1. No doubt, it seems like the kind of place where a crazy full garden might not be in the cards.

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  3. I've got a little pot of creeping thyme (as GC for an Agave lophantha) and was admiring this morning how well it's growing. Made me wonder if thyme grows fairly easily and well as a GC up here...thanks for the confirmation!

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    1. I kept reading GC as Gift Certificate and could not make sense of it!

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  4. I can understand all the concrete for a rainy climate. Mud avoidance. What bowls me over are all the plants that do not have partially brown, dried up, scorched foliage--like, ALL of them don't have dried up foliage!

    Great to see this garden, thanks for showing it to us!

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    1. Again... these photos were taken in June. When it was still raining. No doubt things look very different after a hot and dry 3 months.

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  5. I'd jump on a garden with a view like that and what looks like a decent-sized garden, or at least I would if I didn't choke on the price first. My BIL suggested we consider the Gig Harbor area if we were to move north but I wasn't enamored by any of the house and garden combinations I found online. I just did a quick check on the Lake Washington area with properties at vastly varying prices but most are more house and less garden than I'd want...

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    1. Most everyone I know could only dream of a property like this. You might actually stand a chance, coming from an area with even higher property values.

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  6. Waterside property is out of the realm of possibility for most of us. Lovely view and the purple colour scheme is really well done. I also like how they used screening in the courtyard. No spikey plants though.

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    1. Ya, I really should carry a few agaves for situations like this. I could tuck one in with a note about the care.

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  7. Oh, yes, that garden is incredible. I can see spending many hours...days...weeks there. LOL. But seriously...

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    1. Ya, not gonna happen in this lifetime. At least not for me...

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