Pre-dinner stroll spherical Lakewold Gardens in Puget Sound

Pre-dinner stroll spherical Lakewold Gardens in Puget Sound



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 , 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 nesting, one amongst many dad and mom holding watch on a limb.

Floating flower in a water vessel

Eryngium in 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 ?

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 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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Uncover the world of succulents and cacti on the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society’s Fall Sale on 8/31 and 9/1, from 10 am to pm. Held on the Austin Space Yard Heart in Zilker Botanical Yard, it accommodates a plant present with specimen cacti and succulents, handcrafted pottery, day by day silent public sale and hourly plant raffles, and skilled suggestion. Entry included with the worth of admission at Zilker Botanical Yard: Adults $6 to $8, Seniors $5 to $7, Youths $3 to $4, Children beneath 2 free.

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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…