Calvin’s garden in Washington state

Happy Monday , everyone ! Let ’s start off the week gently with this unagitated scene from Calvin Caley in Sammamish , Washington .

Calvin says,“I have been an amateur gardener for 20 + age but on my current property for 1 1/2 . I have an Akko and a quarter of second - growth Pacific Northwest forest , which is adjacent to a wetland and back up to over three hundred Akka of parks and nature preserves . Most of my belongings , including the naturally - occurring glade shown in the photo , is curtail to Native plant Only - but that does n’t mean it ca n’t be pretty to look at , utile , and interesting .

In this photo you are looking at a triple - trunked mountain hemlock ( Tsuga mertensiana ) in the foreground , with mostly snowberry ( Symphoricarpos alba ) and western steel fern , maidenhair fern fern , lodgepole true pine ( Pinus contorta ) , subalpine fir ( Abies lasiocarpa ) , salal , and evergreen huckleberry ( Vaccinium ovatum ) in the middle length . Toward the background is some Alaska cedar ( Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ) and then the border of aboriginal woods and the wetland perimeter . Lower right is a wry creek bed that redirects overflow during the Northwest rainy season ( January through December ) away from the place an into a Zen garden , which changes the surface area of water and slack its flow . Next to the crushed rock garden is a Douglas fir stump left over from enter the ’ 30 ’s , found with fern , vine maple ( Acer circinatum ) , salal , and kinikinik ( Arctostaphylos uva - ursi ) .

The whole make-up is control together ( and my soil literally carry in piazza ) by native mosses and their companion ground cover , which I crop and also carefully transplant from the deeper Grant Wood . The area was weeds , junk , leaves , and harsh clay soil before I started … it looked like something from a Tim Burton photographic film . ”

arresting , Calvin . I looks like it ’s always been there . * * Hey – desire to see more of what Calvin can do ? stop out his blog , A Thistle in my Sensitive Area(ha ! ) . * *

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