Seattle - Back at it

Oh, hello. Remember me? Life just got a little crazy there for a bit and I couldn't seem to get a post up for awhile. I feel bad not finishing off my series of posts on the Garden Blogger's Fling in Seattle this summer. So I will continue with those and see if I can get back up to speed. So now I'm going to show you the gardens of Lorene Edwards Forkner, Kate Farley and the Seattle Chinese Gardens.

First stop of the day: Lorene Edwards Forkner's garden, author of Handmade Garden Projects so of course her garden was packed with cleverly reused items along with beautiful plantings.

Also included was a very cute airstream trailer garden retreat.

Next we were on to Kate Farley's garden. The beyond saturated corner of the garden got the most attention.

I kind of preferred the quieter corners where one could discover little hidden details.

I love that stumps and snags were left for birds to enjoy.

The garden shed/greenhouse was the coolest. Perfectly aged and rustic.

The collections of stones and construction remnants were beautifully put together.

By the time we got to the last garden, I don't know if I was feeling sick from the heat or just wasn't inspired by the garden. I've always had a hard time enjoying the sanitary whiteness of chinese gardens. Here are the best vignettes I could come up with for the Seattle Chinese Gardens. The architecture has beautiful details but it was just too hot to enjoy all that reflective white hardscape.

I love how they cleverly screened the water catchment with bamboo.

There were a few nice scenes outside of the Chinese Garden too.