Re: Lewis and Little Display Gardens

--- Tim Longville <tim.longville@BTinternet.com>
wrote:

> I looked at the Little and Lewis site you
> recommended. Some handsome things.
> Pity the site didn't show us more of the garden.
> Have you been? Is it as
> handsome as the artwork - and overall as handsome as
> the bits glimpsed in
> one or two of the images?

Tim,
Yes I did get an opportunity to see their garden this
summer on a garden tour with our local gardening group
called the "Hortisexuals", with our motto of "No plant
is safe".  It was a wonderful tour of some
fantastically creative gardens, nurseries and artists
in the Seattle area.  The Little and Lewis garden was
also having a public open garden tour the day we were
there, and was as packed as Sissinghurst must get on a
busy summer day.  The Little and Lewis(Bainbridge
Island) and Linda Cochrane's(Bainbridge Island), and
Nancy Heckler's(Poulsbo) gardens were my personal
favorites on the tour, and the Bloedel
Reserve/Estate(Bainbridge Island) was also a highpoint
in my view.  Charles Price and Glenn Whithey's garden
designs were also very impressive, and the nursery
highlights for me had to be the sheer variety of
plants and incredible display gardens of Heronswood
Nursery(Kingston) and getting to meet Dan Hinkley and
Robert Jones, the owners.

Getting to stay on a houseboat surrounded by floating
gardens right on Lake Union with views back to
downtown and the Space Needle was also part of the
magical mix of the tour.  If you get a chance to visit
Seattle, I would highly recommend it.

 
> (snatching a break from an idyllic autumn day in the
> garden - sun hat
> required to save this poor old codger's bald head -
> in October! in Scotland
> [almost]!)

Tim,
 
We are also getting abit of Indian Summer weather here
in San Francisco, which no one thought we'd get this
year, it had been so cool and foggy. (Early October
and mid April are almost always the best/balmiest
weather we are likely to get here).  No 95F weather,
but high 70'sF and no fog feels pretty darn good this
time of year.  My only lament is that over half my
backyard is in perpetual shade at this season, and
reminds me that winter is on its way...  The Acacia
podalyrifolia is in very early bloom, a cloud of soft
silver gray and pale fellow frothiness, and the
Tibouchina granulosa is covered with blooms also, best
show ever!
> 


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