NPA Study Weekend stop: the Daggetts

My next garden stop on last June's Study Weekend adventure was at Susan and Jerry Daggett's garden...

From the event guide: "We moved into this 1920 Craftsman-style home at a very well-traveled Mount Baker intersection in 2011. While completing the Master Gardener and Plant Amnesty Master Pruner training programs, Susan set about transforming the overgrown garden and extensive sidewalk "Hell-strips" into a drought tolerant botanical oasis which provides an escape from the urban concrete jungle."

It really was a botanical oasis. I love it when I'm driving down an unfamiliar street looking for an address when all of a sudden I see an explosion of plants and I know it's where I'm headed...

I don't see as many arctostaphylos in my Seattle garden travels as I do here in Portland, so seeing this specimen was most welcome.

Standing on the sidewalk with your back to that "well-traveled intersection"you can look up and get a glimpse of the garden itself.

One more hellstrip photo...

And now I'm up in the garden proper—looking down on that intersection.

You know I love me some dark foliage...

It had been such a cool wet spring the tomatoes were yet to take off. The weekend of the event marked the end of spring though, and summer arrived the next week—bringing with it the heat those tomatoes needed to get going.

I do love a wall of foliage...

That's a perfectly placed palm, just missing the roof overhang.

Great watering can!

No space is wasted!

The back garden...

I also need to mention this garden was very appealing for the fact everything was ADA accessible. Great for tour attendees, but also a forward way to think about gardening for all of us. Nobody is getting any younger.