Open Garden #2

The Huntington Garden sits just above the Snohomish Valley with views out to the fields and pastures below.  These are people who just kept going and going until they had most of their acreage landscaped. The result is a riot of color and texture and form in abundance.

We parked in their pasture and entered through the bottom of the garden.

The Huntingtons are old hands at open gardens, but that doesn't negate the tremendous effort involved in preparing a garden this large and this exuberant for viewing by fellow gardeners.  Thank you for the privilege of spending time in your sanctuary.

Open Gardens - NPA

We have been members of the Northwest Perennial alliance for a long time now.  What we like most about the organization is that some members open their gardens for other members to tour. 


We have had our garden open many times off and on over the the years, but not this year.  This weekend there were seven gardens open in and around Snohomish, which is a small river town north of Seattle, noted for it's antique shopping and lovely old homes.  It also has some very notable private gardens.


I took 275 photos of the five gardens we visited, and I could have taken more.  We saw amazing color combinations in flower and especially foliage. We saw wonderful examples of container plantings.  Color, form and texture wowed us.  And there were great uses of art and re-purposed materials used as accents in the garden.


The following photos are just from the first garden, a full acre lot, with half in cultivated garden and half a natural woodland bordering a small lake.

Our thanks to the Nethercutts for opening their garden for the first time.  I can't imagine not showing this off to the world!