What better to do on a rainy spring day than edit down the 100+ photos I took at Dan Hinkley’s home, Windcliff, last summer? It’s pretty ideal to have a stash of photos to dip into whenever the mood hits. This visit to Windcliff was on Sunday, July 21st, the last official day of the 2024 Garden Fling, it was wonderful.
Our arrival was a little chaotic as we tried to decide if we were supposed to be walking around the garden, waiting for Dan, maybe touring the Brindley Garden garden next door first?
But then Dan came out to talk to the group and all was well.
The dogs were very entertaining.
What a handsome schefflera. love those deeply cut leaves.
Oh look at that…
I want to call it a fern table, but there are more “other plants” than there are ferns.
Some Marcia Donahue ceramic fungus does class the whole thing up.
The last time (the only other time) I’d been to Windcliff Dan wasn’t inviting people into his greenhouse or plant propagation area. However, since that area was open for us to wander through that’s where I headed first.
Just a sweet little dish full of moss and maybe an impatiens?
Sarracenia for days…
So many plants, what to look at!?
Curculigo sp., I was tempted, I had one in the garden for a few years that I’d purchased at Far Reaches Farm.
I loved this dark-leaved Saxifraga, but it wasn’t available for purchase (yet). In the end I selected a couple Pseudopanax crassifolius and a native ginger, Asarum hartwegii HSIS 20045 (photos in this post).
Then I was off to see the garden! Daphniphyllum…
And the variegated version…
Turning towards the Sound (Puget Sound that is). Like many of us in the PNW Dan experienced extreme plant death after the storm of January 2024, he opted to kill off what remained and start new, hence the plastic sheeting down on the ground to the right side of this photo.
totem sculptures looked quite at home in the garden.
Melianthus major
Salvia argentea
A few shots of Flingers, the garden and the house.
And like a magnet the Sound draws all eyes back towards it…
Dierama pulcherrimum
It was a clear day, so we could see Seattle off in the distance.
Layers and layers of plants.
Trachycarpus (the palms) and Yucca rostrata.
Lots of sarracenia…
Oh how I’d love a rill running between my arctostaphylos and sarracenia.
Containers up on the patio area off the back of the house.
Agave and ferns in the same planting!
Working my way back around to the front of the house now.
But stopping to admire more of Marcia Donahue’s work.
