DUNN GARDENS TOUR

Our Late Bloomers Garden Club toured Dunn Gardens in North Seattle last Saturday May 24th. 
Our own Maggie M. volunteers there and arranged the tour for us then led half the group. Her docent friend Judy Broom led the rest of us. 

It was a beautiful day and I'll just post the pictures here with captions if I can remember the names. 
Drat! I should have posted sooner, because some names are escaping me now. 
So please comment if you know the names. Many of these plants are East Coast plants that the Dunn family had the Olmsteds use in the design of the garden.

classroom skylight

view from classroom

Dactylorhiza (spotted or marsh orchid)
 with epimedium

unidentified- is it an Impatiens?

Sassafras- see the three different
leaf shapes

Mahonia sp. 

the blue Rhody-
who remembers the name? 

Yellow snake bark Maple
was it Acer forrestii?

unidentified

Acer griseum
Paperbark Maple

Geranium sp.
? tuberosum

 pump house shed

cool moss

Rosa mutabilis

Pacific Coast Iris

Blue poppies
Meconopsis betonicifolia

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Triteleia ixiodes 'Starlight'

Pacific Coast Iris bed

Vancouveria planipetala
Evergreen Redwood inside out flower

Vancouveria hexandra
Herbaceous inside out flower

indumentum on a Rhododendron

space cut into sidewalk
for planting a vine up
the siding

another sidewalk planting

Licorice fern in a planter

Amazing color around
 the Withey-Price home

Tropaeolum polyphyllum?

espaliered Bamboo

Arisaema with amazing
stem coloration

more sidewalk art

Arisaema and mondo grass

old and new garden maps

Smyrnium perfoliatum
aka Alexanders

MAY GARDEN and RAIN REPORT

Ok, so we had some downpours at the beginning of May--We didn't mean to complain!
Really!! We're sorry if it sounded like complaining.
It was good rain that we needed. Nice rain, good job. 
But you didn't need to stop completely, an occasional 1/2 inch a week would still be very welcome. 
Should we do a dance for you? 

I know a few places got really drenched yesterday around here. But we've been in a bit of a doughnut hole here at our place. Granted,sometimes that's nice. Today I've got the hoses out helping the garden to stop wilting, just so you know.............


End of May update: 
It sure has been a warm dry May around here--a couple two days of light on and mostly off mist in between lots of sun. The garden is sure coming into bloom a lot earlier this year. 
Besides all the Pacific Coast Iris and Arisaemas and Cardiocrinums that we love, here are a few pictures of plants in the May garden 

Rhododendron  'Naselle'
We're not big Rhody fans, but do
love these coral salmon colors

 Rhododendrons everywhere around here this year have been fantastically full of bloom. My theory is that we had a very rainy September last year when the buds were developing.

Polygonatum prattii ?

I first got this little guy from Heronswood as an unnamed collection number, collected in Sichuan in 1996 COBC 96-186. I since found P. prattii from Keeping it Green that looks exactly the same and planted next to the original clump. Yet both of these have much rounder leaves than most pictures I've seen of P. prattii. And these flowers arise upward from the leaf axil.

Polygonatum prattii? 

Paris polyphylla v. yunnanense
just emerging

Paris p v. y side view

Paris p.y. fully open

Chrysosplenium davidianum

Primula japonica

Podophyllum pleianthum

Podophyllum  pleianthum

 

foreground plant is
 Heuchera cylindrica

Onoclea sensibilis

Diphylleia cymosa
( don't spell that Genus wrong
when you are looking for an image)

Enkianthus campanulatus

Cardiocrinum gigantea
v. yunnanense

Viburnum sp.
pink lacecap flowers

   

Polygonatum hookeri

     

 this cute little Polygonatum grows only about 2 inches tall and has relatively big flowers sitting right on top. 

PACIFIC COAST IRIS

Keeping a record of my PCI's: 

I. douglassiana

I. tenax

PCH

seedling cross in my garden

PCH

PCH

named variety- lost tag

Canyon Snow

 PCH 'Little Survivor'

'Queen Califa'

'Violetta'

Three plants at Dwayne Booth's garden:

PCI at Dwayne Booth's

PCI at Dwayne Booth's

PCI at Dwayne Booth's

And more of my douglassianas: 

 

I douglassianas