Pre-dinner stroll spherical Lakewold Gardens in Puget Sound

August 13, 2024
Day 2 of the Puget Sound Fling remaining month ended at Lakewold Gardens, a 10-acre property yard in Lakewood, Washington. The Fling banquet dinner was to be held on the terrace, however first we had time to search out the grounds.
A brass quartet, together with co-planner Camille Paulsen‘s daughter on trumpet, serenaded us on the yard. I admired the huge, charismatic bushes spherical the home. In a single sky-scraping tree, bald eagles had been nesting, one amongst many dad and mom holding watch on a excessive limb.
Floating flower in a water vessel
Eryngium in all its spiky, steely blue glory
Lake view
Succulent bowl on a log bench
All through the shade yard…
…a stream wound by means of ferns and sedges.
Bear’s breeches in bloom
Definitely certainly one of many yard’s majestic bushes
Lastly it was time to take a seat down down on the tables arrange on the wisteria-shaded terrace. Texas readers, I inform you with astonishment, there was no humidity, no sweating, and nil flies or completely completely different bugs on the dessert platters set out forward of time. No, I point out it. Zero flies. Zero mosquitoes furthermore. What otherworldly place IS this?
Fling co-planner Paula Rothkopf launched subsequent yr’s Fling planners, Kim Halyak, Sharron Johnson, and John Simi, who gave us a preview of the 2025 Memphis Fling. It’ll be held in Memphis, Tennessee, from June fifth to eighth. I’m already attempting ahead to it!
As we headed as soon as extra to the buses, the beneficiant of us at Lakewold gave us all a replica of their hardback e-book Lakewold: A Magnificent Northwest Yard. Perusing it’s going to ship as soon as extra good reminiscences.
Up subsequent: The attractive, jam-packed yard of Nancy Heckler. For a glance as soon as extra at Camille Paulsen’s spectacular yard overlooking Mount Rainier, click on on on correct proper right here.
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August 13, 2024 Day 2 of the Puget Sound Fling remaining month ended at Lakewold Gardens, a 10-acre property yard in Lakewood, Washington. The Fling banquet dinner was to be held on the terrace, however first we had time to search out the grounds. A brass quartet, together with co-planner…
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