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Open Gardens2016 THE HARDY PLANT SOCIETY OF OREGON OPEN GARDENS2016 gardeners growing together Garden Thyme Nursery Harvest Nursery Hydrangeas Plus Nowlens Bridge Perennials Out in the Garden Nursery Sebright Gardens Secret Garden Growers Bailey garden 2016 Open Garden season is about to begin! Welcome to this year’s directory of approximately 100 listings covering a wide variety of wonderful gardens and nurseries to visit all season. Many gardens will be open on the weekends, and evening openings are on the second and fourth Mondays of June, July, August and September. The Directory has been prepared by a dedicated committee led by Chair Tom Barreto, assisted by Ruth Clark, Merle Dole-Reid, Jenn Ferrante, Barry Gates, Jim Rondone, Pam Skalicky, Lise Storc and Bruce Wakefield. Tom is also much appreciated for his beautiful photography which graces the cover this year. Special thanks to Linda Wisner for cover design, advice and production direction and a very big thank you to Bruce Wakefield for his help with a process that is always time consuming; we are very grateful. We have worked hard to assure the accuracy of the listings in the 2016 Open Gardens Directory, but if you find an error or omission, please contact the HPSO office at 503-224-5718. Corrections will be announced in the HPSO weekly email blasts. And most importantly, our deepest thanks to the generous and welcoming HPSO members who are sharing their gardens this year. We appreciate the opportunity to learn from, and enjoy, your remarkable gardens. 1 VISITOR GUIDELINES TO GOOD GARDEN ETIQUETTE We are fortunate to be able to visit so many glorious gardens through our HPSO membership. Since we want to keep getting invited back, here are a few reminders about how to be the very best garden visitor ever. 1. Ask the garden owner before taking photos. Almost everyone will say yes. Ask separately about the use of tripods. 2. Stay on footpaths, stairways and bridges. This will ensure that you are not compromising beds, slopes, or waterways, and that you will keep your footing. 3. Leave plant tags in the ground or the pot where the plant is located. Ask your host to identify plants if you cannot read the tags in place. 4. If you do ask the name of a plant, make sure you have a notebook and pencil at the ready to record it. You may think you will remember, but you won’t; none of us remembers. 5. If there are other visitors during your tour, make sure everyone has access to the host to ask questions. 6. Refrain from removing any plants (even weeds) or parts of plants. 7. If the house is not open, please do not ask to use the bathroom/phone/internet unless it is a dire emergency. 8. Have a wonderful time. 2 2016 OPEN GARDENS BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................... 1 Visitor Guidelines to Good Garden Etiquette ............ 2 HPSO/Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour ............ 4 Gardens Open by Appointment Only ........................ 8 Nurseries With Display Gardens ................................ 9 Picnic for Garden Hosts and HPSO Volunteers ........ 11 Open Gardens Calendar .......................................... 13 Garden and Nursery Descriptions ........................... 29 Public Gardens ......................................................... 85 3 Dragonfly Hollow — Vanessa Gardner Nagel garden Garden Conservancy/HPSO Open Days Tour Northern Exposure: Glorious Gardens in Clark County Saturday, June 11, 2016, 10 am – 4 pm (Self-guided – you may start at any of the gardens) This year we decided to locate the Garden Conservancy/HPSO Open Gardens tour in Clark County. It hasn't been held on that side of the river since 2005 and it seemed time to again honor our north-of-the-Columbia neighbors. Five exquisite gardens of varying sizes and styles will be featured. We're excited about this year's tour which features fine gardens rarely or never seen by our membership. It promises to be a wonderful, fun, and inspirational day and we hope you'll join us! Tickets are being presented in a new form this year; instead of ticket booklets, tour-goers will gain entrance to the gardens by way of day passes. Leftover tickets from past tours will be honored both this year and in future, but are being phased out. For HPSO members, day passes can be purchased in advance at the HPSO website for $20.00 (a savings of $10.00!) for all five gardens. On the day of the event, passes will be sold on site for $30.00. Admission to individual gardens will be $7.00 at the garden’s entry. There will be HPSO event signs in place to help you find the locations. Your entrance fee supports the grants and scholarship programs at HPSO and the mission of the Garden Conservancy to preserve exceptional American gardens for the public. 4 Seymour-Lueck Garden (lead garden) — Rebecca Seymour and Greg Lueck 218 NW 88th St., Vancouver, WA 98665 503-789-6621 The Seymour-Lueck Garden, inspired by Japanese landscaping and designed by Vanessa Gardner Nagel, showcases water features, sculptures, and glass art. Ornamental grasses and moss play a prominent role in linking the garden to the greenway behind it. Stone pathways lead past a giant stone rill and a koi pond to several secluded sitting areas, which are particularly tranquil for contemplation. The owners are both artists—he a glass artist, she a painter– and the garden clearly reflects their aesthetics and their connection to the nature that surrounds them. From I-5 take Exit 4 for NE 78th St. Head west on 78th, turn right on NE Hazel Dell Ave, left on 83rd. Turn right onto NW Greenbriar Dr. Follow the curve and turn right on NW 87th. Right again onto NW 4th, then right on NW 88th St. Dragonfly Hollow — Vanessa Gardner Nagel 12517 NE 20th Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686 360-546-2746 As a landscape designer and garden author, Vanessa Gardner Nagel is always finding new opportunities to renew and transform her garden. During Dragonfly Hollow’s twenty-five years, the Nagels have removed many old trees, eliminated the lawn, added a crop circle and outdoor living areas, and responded to increasing shade. They continue to edit, removing and adding many new plants each year, so there is a mix of mature and new. Its colorful flowers, swaying grasses, clipped hedges, award-winning garden art, and dramatic plants continue to be a source of delight. Driving directions: Drive north on either I-5 or I-205. If on I-5 turn right at the off- ramp, go to the first signal, turn right, go to the next signal, turn right and you will be on Hwy. 99 going south. If on 205, turn left at the ramp signal, go to the next signal and turn left in the far left lane and you will be on Hwy. 99 going south. Continue on Hwy. 99 through the 129th St. signal and about half-way down the hill there will be a left turn onto NE 20th Ave. Turn left immediately at the dead-end sign and drive to the first mailbox on the right. (It is red with a dark brown base with our house numbers in silver.) 5 Matsu Kaze (Wind in the Pines) — Roger and Judy McElhaney 12506 NE 109th Ave., Vancouver, WA 98662 971-219-0511 It’s hard to imagine that Matsu Kaze was once a horse pasture. Judy began designing and developing the two-and-a-half acre property into an Asian- inspired garden fourteen years ago. Now it overflows with rare and unusual plants including many varieties of conifers, ginkgos, Japanese maples, rhododendrons, and dogwoods, as well as lilies, peonies, daphnes, and clematis. Meandering pathways lead to sitting spaces, a pond with a waterfall, a covered bridge over a dry creek bed, a firepit, an outdoor kitchen, and a guest house. Created to give the couple something to do in their retirement, it has given them that, and infinitely more. Driving directions: From I-205 N: Take exit 32, Padden Pkwy, and head east. At the 2nd light turn left onto 117th Ave (also known as Hwy 503). Travel north through 4 or 5 lights and past a Shell station on your right and a WinCo on your left. About 1/4 mile more, you will be turning left onto 131st St. (It's easy to miss. 131st is on the left just before you get to a white farm house on the right.) If you get to Chapman's Nursery on the left, you've gone too far so turn around in their parking lot. Once you are on 131st, go a country block and turn left onto 110th Ave. 110th jogs to the right and then jogs to the left onto 109th Ave. Ours is the last house on the right where the road dead ends. From I-5 N: Take the 78th St exit east. After a few lights beyond Hwy 99, 78th continues to the right and the left fork becomes Padden Pkwy. Stay to the left on Padden, go over the I-205 overpass and follow the directions above to our place. Ritchie Garden — Betty and Bill Ritchie 7619 NE 192nd Way, Battle Ground, WA 98604 360-573-6636 In 2001, the five acres that were to become the Ritchie Garden sported one scrubby tree near a wetland. Gradually the area evolved into a gracious setting characterized by weeping, contorted, and variegated trees and perennials looking out onto earthen ponds. The Ritchies continue to add native plants to nurture and shelter local wildlife. Plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, especially hardy fuchsias, draw hummingbirds and the constantly changing fragrances and vistas are delightful! Travel north on I-5 to 179th Street (Fairgrounds) exit.
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