The Garden of Terri Dufault

Another Northwest Perennial Alliance Open Garden Saturday found the Lassie and the Outlaw poking around the Gig Harbor area  and having an enjoyable day of garden touring.  Today, we'll look at Terri Dufault's garden.   Situated on a hill overlooking Puget sound and the Olympic mountains, this garden utilizes beautifully colored foliage very well.  I'd never seen a deep purple berberis hedge before and this one was impressive in size and color!  I wonder if the thorns are an effective deer deterrent?

 

Fremontodendron greeted us at the bottom of the hill.

There were a variety of paths to explore all leading to oodles of interesting plants.

 

 

 Another view up . 

A dry creek bed, complete with dry fish, bisects the front xeric gardens. 

Beautiful basalt water feature and dig the cool rock work all around it!

 

 Unfortunately we didn't meet Terri to express our appreciation and ask a million questions.  I'd certainly like to know the story of these as I think they're awesome!

 A view from the top of the garden.  Don't know if I'd want to drive down this hill on an icy winter morning.  Fortunately we don't have very many of those and when we do, lots of things close down or start late.

If given the choice, would you prefer living up high like this with gorgeous panoramic views or would you opt to live closer to the water's edge (also could have gorgeous views?)  

Fortunately for us, we had a perfect sunny day for an outing.  Unfortunately, the direct sun isn't the best for photographing a garden.   Notice the hardy fuchsia on the left. 

More gorgeousness.

There's a stream in there ending in a pond.

 A tropical themed area  being protected from hungry deer.

The edible plant area also has a high fence around it.  I guess that these folks want to eat their produce themselves.  Silly, right?

Around the other side of the house. 

 

 One of my favorite parts of this garden was seeing all of these plants waiting to find places in the garden.  She's one of us!

There were tags from some of my favorite nurseries like Dig and Cistus.  Hmmm...

More stars waiting in the green room for their chance to shine.  Plant addiction problem?  What plant addiction problem?

If I enjoy Cotinus coggygria in someone else's garden, is it considered second hand smoke?

 

Happy Monday!