Have you taken walks around the neighborhood and admired other neighbors’ vibrant, colorful groundcovers? Garden blogger Paige Embry has a post on her blog, A Year in Seattle’s Gardens, that explores some of the groundcover in Tangletown through description and photography. Paige explains her gardening know-how and the reason behind the blog:
I used to run a garden design/coaching business and have just set up a blog, www.ayearinseattlegardens.com. The focus of the blog is pretty obvious from the name. It looks at plants not only when they are at their best but also in other seasons (the times when no one takes pictures for gardening magazines) so people really can make an educated decision before buying a plant.
As part of the blog, and just to inform people who are passing by, I’ve put together a self-guided groundcover walk down Keystone Ave N (between 51st and 56th) with some of the groundcovers labeled. Hopefully, I’ll put together different walks every few months that focus on different kinds of plants.
Sweet woodruff is a great little groundcover plant with only two drawbacks that I know of:
1. Every few years it seems to suffer from some kind of blight that kills off most of the plants over a wide area. A few years ago I noticed mune dying off, and when I spoke to the fine folks over at the Bellevue botanical gardens they told me that they had a huge die-back in their Japanese garden, A few years later it will begin to spring forth, probably from some subterranean humours.
I was joking about the humours. 🙁
2. the seeds of the woodruff are like tiny cockleburs that will get tangled in the fur of any silky-furred cat that walks through the woodruff patch, thereby making said cat eligible for a haircut,
A nice tour, and a wonderful idea to evaluate plants by how they perform year-round, plus pros and cons. A very helpful approach to choosing the right plant!
Margaret,we are having a Wallingford Garden Party this coming Monday at my house. Would love you to come and meet everyone. It starts at 7:PL.M. and there will be refreshments. I live right by Triangle Park at the end of 57th and Keystone. donna lee judd 1831 North 57th st. 1-206-634-2171 Hope to see you.