Cleo’s Spring Garden in Washington Leave a comment

Comfortable Friday, GPODers!

On Wednesday we noticed Linda’s beautiful woodland backyard on Lookout Mountain (Linda’s Backyard on a Mountain), yesterday we noticed fairly pink blooms from Lila’s backyard in Mill Creek (Lila’s Azaleas), and at the moment we’re wrapping up this mini spring tour of Washington with Cleo Raulerson in Bellevue. Cleo has already shared her attractive backyard in fall and winter (Late October in Cleo’s Again Backyard and Cleo’s Washington Backyard in Winter), and at the moment we lastly get to see her house because the climate warms up and vegetation wake from their winter slumber. Cleo at all times contains a lot fabulous info on her vegetation, so I’ll waste no time and get straight to the great things.

Spring is my favourite time of the yr, particularly within the backyard. We’re lucky in Western Washington to have an extended spring to look at the brand new leaves and spring flowers emerge and develop. Listed below are 2025 images of a few of my favourite spring vegetation and backyard scenes.

Leaves of our laceleaf Japanese maple (Acer palmatum var. dissectum atropurpureum ‘Ever Purple’, Zones 5–8), planted 36 years in the past, simply starting to emerge in early April with two Magic Carpet spirea (Spiraea japonica ‘Walbuma’, Zones 4–9) within the foreground

Ten days later, the laceleaf Japanese maple on the left is usually leafed in. Shrubs left to proper: Snowflake oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Brido’, Zones 5–9), violet-blue flowers of ‘Crater Lake’ rhododendron (Rhododendron ‘Crater Lake’, Zones 6–8), and Shindeshojo Japanese maple (Acer palmatum ‘Shindeshojo’, Zones 5–9) in its preliminary pink leaf colour (then inexperienced leaves in summer season and coral-red leaves in autumn). The Bellevue skyline is within the background.

The steel blue allium sculptures are a favourite subject on backyard excursions. In April, white summer season snowflake (Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Big’, Zones 4–8) is blooming on the left, subsequent to blue camas (Camassia leichtlinii ‘Blue Danube’, Zones 3–8). Pink ‘Bow Bells’ rhododendron (Rhododendron ‘Bow Bells’, Zones 6–9) is simply beginning to bloom on the appropriate.

Considered one of my favourite spring scenes, with ‘Redleaf’ Roger’s flower (Rodgersia podophylla ‘Rotlaub’, Zones 5–9) simply rising; an historic Exbury azalea including a shiny pop of apricot colour, which is echoed within the glass goldfish; and different plantings. The small white flowers within the again are dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii ‘Blue Mist’, Zones 5–8).

Shut-up of redvein enkianthus (Enkianthus campanulatus, Zones 5–8) in full bloom. It is a nice year-round shrub.

Considered one of our favourite subalpine wildflowers on Mt. Rainier is the mophead (Pulsatilla occidentalis syn. Anemone occidentalis, Zones 3–8). Its European cousin, pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris, Zones 4–8), fortunately grows at sea stage, so we are able to have a reminder of our nice Mt. Rainier hikes in our city backyard. Pulsatilla vulgaris blooms in shades of purple/mauve in March, then the white-gray mopheads final nicely into summer season.

Shut-up of yak rhodie blooms (Rhododendron yakushimanum ‘Koichiro Wada’, Zones 5–9). This pale pink flower matches nicely into the backyard; then we are able to take pleasure in the brand new silvery leaves with a overlaying of tremendous, felty hairs later within the spring.

I like blue flowers. Hubricht’s bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii, Zones 5–8) is fantastic. Listed below are the blue spring flowers; then the slender inexperienced leaves sway within the breeze all summer season and switch shiny yellow within the autumn. Magenta flowers on the left are the hyacinth orchid (Bletilla striata, Zones 5–9), which I acquired from my aunt’s Maryland backyard.

A part of our backyard is damp clay. Sixteen years in the past, I purchased seven vegetation of this candelabra primrose (Primula × bulleesiana, Zones 4–7). The seed heads are left on a lot of the summer season. I now have a wandering stream of those primroses, which is a backyard favourite.

Thanks a lot for this unbelievable spring tour of your backyard, Cleo! Your house is stuffed with so many attention-grabbing and crowd pleasing vegetation in each season; we tremendously recognize the time you’re taking to establish every one.

I can not imagine that subsequent week is already the top of spring! This season completely flew by, however I’m thrilled with what number of fabulous spring gardens we’ve been handled to over the previous few months. If you want your spring backyard featured on the weblog earlier than summer season images flood our inbox, contemplate sharing your images this weekend! Observe the instructions beneath to submit images through e mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.

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