This beautiful Paulownia tomentosa stands next to the visitor center.
The flowers are gone; here are the fruit.
The path leading away from the visitor center, and toward the meadow.
The meadow serves as a transitionary period between the stress of the day behind you and the restorative forest ahead of you. You can see the woods in the distance; you anticipate your arrival as you make progress. A few sentinel trees stand in the meadow to ease the transition.
I want everyone to put this kind of color consideration into their own landscape. Dark trees everywhere? Plant a light tree in front of them!
Inside the woods; Gaultheria shallon (Salal, or Lemon Leaves when used as a foliage cutting in flower displays; the berries are delicious), many ferns, Berberis sp. (formerly Mahonia, or Oregon Grape)...
To be continued... I have to wake up at 6 a.m. tomorrow to catch a plane for the east coast. I'll be gone for a week, and I'll finish this post then.
Cheers.
ADDED: Okay, maybe I'm never going to get all my Bloedel Reserve pictures up. Let's try tho'. Shortly, after entering the meadow, this pond:
All the benches, and there are many, come from Smith and Hawken.
There's a swan, but I couldn't get a good picture of it.
It's just a swan.
So, after the pond, this bridge:
Over this gulch...
Comes before this bridge, which is bent at 90 degree angles to confuse bad spirits...
Some pretty pitcher plant off the side of the bent bridge:
Madenhair ferns fail in my garden. Look at that texture.
We approach the Bloedel House...
Salix. I have the species name in a book...Will try to remember to post it.
Behind this Salix is the Japanese garden. We'll get there in awhile.
I'm not a big fan of hydrangea...
But these are pretty:
At the house, I'm most impressed with this planting. It looks like grape, but w/ really big leaves.
And soft thorns.
I'm not even sure if these are called thorns. Maybe there's a better word.
I also like this duck in the Buxus.
I can't remember what came between the house and the Japanese garden, so I'm going to skip to the Japanese garden, and append anything I can't place at the end of the post.
Acer.
I remember identifying it as Vaccinium ovatum under the Acer palmatum, but I could be wrong.
Leaving the Japanese Garden, there's a lovely moss garden.
I think this is beautiful:
Time to go... there's a reflection pond that was kind of under restoration so I didn't take pictures.
On the way out.
Back to the meadow where I started.
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing! It's neat to see how different things were not even two months before I visited.
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