From Snow to Summer

Favorite scenes in a Seattle garden

Today we ’re chat the garden of Angela O’Brien - Ruff in Seattle and looking at some favorite moments in the garden through the seasons .

The first exposure Angela send in is this very seasonally appropriate scene of her Jelena witch hazel ( Hamamelis‘Jelena ’ , Zones 5–9 ) bloom through a blizzard that shoot the Seattle area a few year ago .

But enough with the cold and snow . allow ’s remember affectionate time ! Here ’s a view of the garden soaker and green , looking out under the delicate textured canopy of a Japanese maple ( genus Acer palmatum , Zones 5–9 ) .

It ’s all about texture ! This shady planting is all the better for just being shades of putting green , as it really shows off the mosaic of diverse textures Angela has make using plants with foliage in dissimilar size and conformation .

This picture is making me overleap warm conditions ! What is better than a fresh , right strawberry picked fond from the summer sun ?

Voodoo lily ( Dracunculus vulgaris , Zones 7–10 ) creates these incredible , huge flowers that are unlike anything else in the garden . They are fragrant , but not in a good way , as they are pollinate by flies lured in by the feeling of rotting meat . This is not a good plant to put right by the kitchen windowpane , but it ’s well worth growing for the dramatic , unusual flowers . And , of course , kids have a go at it them ! If you live in a place cold than Zone 7 , you could dig out the bulbs in the tumble and store them like a Dahlia pinnata to replant in the spring .

Brilliant red Asian lilies ( Lilium , Asiatic group , Zones 5–9 )

In this beautiful image of fall , Nipponese maple leaf fall on fern overarch by Nipponese forest weed ( Hakonechloa macra , Zones 5–9 ) .

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