Saturday, June 16, 2012

Foliage Followup -- June 2012

For Foliage Followup I was going to do a post with pictures of some of my own foliage. But today I went on a garden tour -- The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park -- and one of the gardens I saw was inspirationally fabulous!

Here's the description from the tour brochure: "Betsy & George's Garden -- Featured ten years ago, this sprawling garden features unusual specimens and uncommon plant pairings. This is a wonderful example of shade gardening at its finest, with big trees and difficult sites well filled with choice plants. This is a certified Wildlife Habitat Garden."

This garden could make me a hosta lover! I knew hosta foliage could be an interesting foil for other shapes and types of leaves, but it didn't really hit home until today.













They had some wonderful moss-covered rocks!

There was a pleasantly serene waterfall and pond, surrounded by yet more moss.





This was one of those gardens where something lovely hit you in the face every time you turned around.

Standing under this gnarled, mossy, licheny, expertly pruned filbert was almost a spiritual experience.

I didn't realize till I was on my way out, and looked back at the garden one more time, that one of the trees I had been standing under was an enormous monkey puzzle tree!





Like I said, "Fabulous!" Right?

Check out Pam Penick's blog Digging for more Foliage Followup posts!