Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.
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After inspecting the length of the new Narrows Bridge Sunday along with 50,000 of my good friends I headed down to Thurston County for a Northwest Perennial Alliance garden tour.
Alas, I-5 was a parking lot (can they build a bridge from Tacoma to Olympia?) and we only made it to one garden.
But, what a garden it is. Owner Joyce Hawkins has turned her one-acre site in to a fantasy land of koi filled pools, waterfalls and 1300 feet of berms filled with rare and unusual plants. Her son Ken who lives nearby is responsible for most of the heavy work, including an amazing biofilter system for the ponds.
A "fern table" is the centerpiece for this outdoor resting spot.
One of the most bizarre foliaged plants I've ever seen. Joyce says it's called Podophyllum peltatum var. hexandrum 'Kaleidoscope'.
One of the two koi ponds.
Besides being an amazing gardener Joyce is an artist. She makes these dinosaur eggs and gunnera leaves in a workshop behind her garden. This is a real gunnera growing in this photo.
