This postal service continues the tour of the somebody gardens inwards Sonoma County, California I had the privilege of visiting every bit exercise of Pacific Horticulture Society’s Summit 2016. The get-go garden nosotros saw was garden designer Roger Raiche’s house inwards Guerneville. Stop #2 was Mary together with Lew Reid’s garden exterior of Sebastopol. This is how it was described inwards the 2016 Summit program:
Mary together with Lew Reid’s garden is 25 years onetime together with always changing. Lew, who never passes upward a gamble to grow a plant, together with Mary, a landscape designer, bring the pure pleasance of creating this beautiful garden epitome high higher upward Sonoma County’s lowlands, The zone eight setting makes it possible to grow but nearly anything, together with their garden is filled alongside plants from all over the world. What matters most to them is the juxtaposition of leaf colors together with textures. Carefully considered, these behave the garden throughout the year. You’ll meet it inwards its tumble glory.
It took quite a spell to teach at that spot from the get-go garden. The roads were getting narrower, together with the houses fewer inwards let out together with further apart. Eventually nosotros realized that this was non going to last your ordinary property. I didn’t know how large it was at the time, but a search of populace records revealed that it’s 55 acres.
Kathy together with I ambled through the garden at a leisurely pace, taking pictures left together with right. It rained twice, but a few minutes at a time, but weather condition were perfect for photography otherwise.
Pacific Horticulture Summit 2016, Sonoma County, CA, October 15-16, 2016
Josh Williams’s garden (Sebastopol, CA)