Spring in the Cascade Mountains

Extreme weather doesn’t stop this gardener

Here in the company town of Newhalem , Washington , located in the North Cascade National Forest , Bruce Fowler has been busy at study in his home garden . start less than three old age ago , it is still a work in progression — moving plant life , adding others , expanding beds , and creating rooms of color and texture in every quoin . Winters are long , and although Newhalem is only at 500 feet , it is nestled along the Skagit River , which slue through a esophagus of a granite in the Cascade “ Alps . ” wintertime can be long , and the planting zone for this domain is very deceiving . With the cold , wind instrument ( both hot and freezing ) , snow , and blistering summertime , hardy is the intelligence of the day !

This metre of year Bruce finds heuchera a unguent for color while he look the showing summertime blooms of genus Rudbeckia and genus Echinacea . Sweet genus Viola faces protrude up here and there , and the hostas are unfurling their beautiful leafage that will drop anchor summer blooms . The use of garden art also adds the the drama .

This class Bruce has added a invoke garden and tiered herb bed .

The terrace is adorned with pots arrange for color and grain in contrasting pallet that complement the turquoise lawn furniture . Fences and posts have been painted black to give the linden tree and chartreuse “ pop . ”

A rich purpleheucheracontrasts nicely with the fragrant white blooms of sweet-scented woodruff(Galium odoratum , Zones 4–8 ) .

Heucherasin sundown sunglasses provide long - lasting color .

A warm - colored osteospermum ( annual ) complements a heuchera in a pot .

A cheery viola(Viola×wittrockiana , cool season annual )

Using tiered container forherbsandvegetablesis a beautiful way to exhibit these cosmetic and eatable plants .

tidy sum of color fromfoliagein a container . No flowers take !

Bleeding heart(Dicentra spectabilis , Zones 2–8 )

Cheerygarden artin a mass of colorful foliation and flowers

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