Visiting the Bellevue Botanical Garden, Part Two

Today we pick back up with our visit to the Bellevue Botanical Garden as we're walking into the famed perennial border...

The Datisca cannabina (aka false hemp) is always a show-stopper for me. That's it above, in the distance, and again below.

And here, backed by a soft blue sky.

One of the many Cephalotaxus harringtonii (aka Japanese plum-yew) that caught my eye. Of course the variegated chestnut is no slacker in the foliage department either.

Semi-wide shot with nolina...

Nolina hibernica 'La Siberica' that is.

I seemed to be captivated by cryptomeria on this trip, stopping to take photos here and of several at the Kubota Garden the next day.

I'm always mesmerized by a fuzzy verbascum.

Crinum 'Cecil Houdyshel'

And again, masked by blooms of a nearby grass.

Verbena

And a rodgersia looking fabulous so late in the year, it must get a lot of water.

These small, protective cages were all around the garden. They remind me of a project in Lorene Edwards-Forkner's A Handmade Garden, I wonder if she held a workshop at the garden?

I can be charmed by a dark, late-season hydrangea bloom.

Darnit! The Northwest Perennial Alliance has a propagation exhibit and there are usually plants for sale. It wasn't open when I was there, maybe a COVID thing? (this scene was behind a closed door, photo taken through the glass).

There are parts of the garden left natural and wild.

I found this old hebe to be quite a looker.

Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla

And finally, the fern garden...

I was rather taken with this one, as it was forming a short trunk.

Online requests for ID resulted in the names Polystichum polyblepharum, Polystichum x dycei, and Dryopteris cycadina—with Polystichum polyblepharum emerging as the likely winner.