The Sellers garden, a VHPG Study Weekend stop

This garden belonging to David and Wendy Sellars is my final post for this week of Vancouver Study Weekend garden visits, I toured this garden last June.I stepped into the garden via their steep and winding driveway and was immediately fascinated with the rock garden plantings. Rock gardens (and saxifrage) are definitely a thing in the Vancouver area.
From our tour brochure: "Wendy and David Sellars started their garden in 1987 on a heavily treed acre in South Surrey. The trees were cleared and the land shaped to create high banks, valleys, ponds and streams. A woodland area has mature trees… A rock garden on steep bank extends across the front of the garden with extensive plantings in tufa rock. In 2012 the garden was given the Linc and Timmy Foster Millstream Garden Award by the North American Rock Garden Society."
Arenaria alfacarensis, Spanish sandwort
That sandwort is the only name I'll be sharing in this post. There were a million fabulous little plants, but I don't know what most of them were. There were some name tags, but not many on the plants I was interested in. Which to my way of thinking is a good thing, this was a private garden, not a botanical garden. 

Some type of eriogonum blooming at the back? And an Armeria maritima in front? (guessing!)
Well okay, I know this one because I grow it, Maihuenia poeppigii.

So many saxifrage...





On the other side of the driveway...
Lady slipper orchids were in almost every garden we toured, such great foliage.

Rocks, rocks, and more rocks...









I've made it around to the back garden now. You can see for miles...
These must be special plants as they were displayed on a table at eye-level.
There was an extensive nursery/growing area, but I think it was all for personal use. Echium...

It's not every garden that has its own railroad.
Finally, a couple of rhododendrons. I'm guessing R. pachysanthum and R. williamsianum. Great garden!