Thanks for the tour zephyrgal pacific nw

Conifers have become my go to plantings, maintenance free for the most part and I really like all the weepers.

A sentimental journey, I'll bet.

Yes very sentimental. A few more photos.

Excellent garden ,,love your stonehenge

ron

Very nice!

Very nice, indeed. I occasionally wonder what the next steward of my garden will like or remove.

tj

' the next steward of my garden '

That will be tsugajunkie Jr. :-))

Beautiful garden

I do vaguely remember your ID from back then.

I'm so curious are those headstones marking real graves, or just are they just decorative?

It does look lovely. And well cared for.

I avoid revisiting former gardens. They have always been a huge disappointment to me, either through neglect or the removal of loved and often special plants. Specially with my largest and longest worked (nearly 30 years) garden. I go out of my way to avoid the neighborhood when I am in the area.

I DO sometimes revisit the gardens of former design clients and oddly, am rarely disappointed. Frequently there have been changes made but most are appropriate to the design. And most are very well cared for, too.

GG48 I live just 2 miles from my former garden so very easy for me to pop in anytime. davidrt28, the rocks are not head stones just something my partner wanted to place. Here's a few more photos from back in the day.

When my management of my yard/garden end, it will no longer flourish.

No one will work as hard as I have, to get everything I planted established, then keep it going in my deep sandy sub straight and dry hot summers.

Some things will keep going that are native but guessing 50% of what's presently here won't make it without a dedicated/educated gardener. :-/

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BillMN, so true, it's a personal love and dedication to create a yard/garden. Each garden is as individual as the gardener. Yours is a lovely place, so spacious and lush.

TY,

The spacious part will diminish, even though I planted mostly trees and gave them a spacing with mature size in mind I certainly didn't overdo that specification and am already seeing things closing in on each other.

But I kind of like that closeness bc most plants appreciate a certain amount of shade. And if I'm around long enough, I may add new beds or combine some existing beds, or heck, just might tear up an area, add some topography, toss in a few boulders and plant more plants. :-)

Are one or two of those Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns'? I love that plant and have a little three-footer in my garden. My plant has been very slow, while nearby Seqoiadendron giganteum 'Pendulum' has grow very fast.

Our former house & garden in Edmonds, WA just went on the market so I've been able to see new photos of my old garden. Its pretty dramatically different in back but the front has hardly changed at all, other than tremendous growth. I always plant so heavily, not many new owners are able to tolerate or maintain that level of horticultural intensity. Right Pam?;)

Yes those are Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns. I would like to plant one in my current garden if I can find one.