Bellevue Botanical Garden

I am not sure why people are so envious of the tropics. It is incredibly beautiful here in the Seattle area. Today we get to go on a tour of the Bellevue Botanical Garden.

Y'all are gonna have to decipher what some of these gorgeous flowers are because I don't know many of them and the garden was not well labeled.















A Water Stone and rill in the entry that flowed across the patio to another pond.














Berberis and some kind grass I think.















A fern of course.















The Water Wise Garden. It rains a lot here it seems. The sun has come out for the first time as I post this.















My best guess is a Kalmia.

















Alliums, the temperate Agapanthus.














The lawn looking out towards the perennial borders.















Purple and grey ferns.
















































A rock column with a perfect hole.

















Who knows what the next stop will bring and if I will be able to download pictures from my camera as I keep aiming towards Clyde. We'll see ya later.

Kirkland on the Mainland

The Festival of Free Crap was held on Sunday, followed immediately by a trip to the dump. Monday afternoon, five hours before my flight was the much more popular Festival of Free Shrubberies. No matter how hard I tried and how much weight I lost trying to clean that place down to the bone, the stuff was endless. In the end the stuff won out. There was stuff left behind for others to deal with. Some quite good stuff mind you. The good news is I was able to let it go with next to no regrets.

The port of Seattle held my ride for the next leg of a new journey in life.















On the waterfront gardens were suspended in the air.




















Raindrops on a Japanese Maple in the beautiful garden where I have landed to rest for a few days.















Maple, grasses and stone in an entry courtyard.















Rhododendrons in full bloom. It is looking a lot like the climate of my final destination.















It sure looks like a pink flowered Strawberry to me. Let the learning begin.















Variegated grass.















Is this a Salvia?




















A Rose in a tub on a patio in bloom.















You have got to be kidding me. Two tall palms by the pool just outside of Seattle.















A Weeping conifer with Spirea. I am going to have to relearn all my needled plants.















I have landed safely on the west coast of the United States from one of the separated ones.




















That's me on the mainland. Howdy.

Cyber Squatting

I have claimed this name and blog address for my relocation from Maui to the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

Depending on computer accessibility and time available, Outside Clyde will go live around early to late July 2007.