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Immediately we’re returning to the attractive backyard of Jeanne Erdahl in Sammamish, Washington. We’ve seen Jeanne’s backyard a few instances this yr (try these earlier submissions right here: Jeanne’s Spring Backyard and Jeanne’s Midsummer Backyard), and every time we’ve seen slightly little bit of the backyard artwork that’s scattered all through this lush panorama. Nevertheless, we’ve by no means gotten a correct tour of a few of these implausible sculptures till at present. Whereas we normally give attention to plant collections right here at Backyard Picture of the Day, it’s all the time a delight to see the artwork and equipment that inject much more persona and magnificence right into a backyard, and Jeanne’s backyard artwork assortment is a fastidiously curated gallery.
Beginning with our spawning salmon swimming upstream in our dry streambed, with glass bubbles of their wake
Perestroika (my associate claims naming rights for many of our sculptures) is an imposing summary steel dice, perched diagonally on one nook, which changed a struggling alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa, Zones 4–7) close to our entrance entry. That fir was the final of three to succumb to the lowlands of Washington, the place they’d been unwisely taken out of their most well-liked mountain altitude.
My most up-to-date acquisition of a 3-foot-diameter ceramic globe, which has nestled fortunately underneath the bloodgood maple (Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’, Zones 5–8) sporting lots of the similar mauve/inexperienced colours. Unnamed.
I’m all the time stunned and delighted when our fall cyclamen (Cyclamen coum, Zones 6–9) pop up when and the place least anticipated. One 4-inch pot was planted on a really dry slope years in the past, and so they have unfold into household groupings 10 to fifteen toes away from the unique planting. Utterly disappeared in spring and summer time, however they begin reappearing round August and bloom fortunately effectively into our wet winter.
Shut by, and in addition at our entrance walkway, are two rusty hens evident at one another to see who has one of the best coat of “hens and chicks” (Sempervivum tectorum, Zones 3–8) thriving on their backs.
This arrival bell was crafted, I consider, from the highest half of a diver’s oxygen tank. It has a surprisingly clear and mellow tone that reverberates lengthy after the clapper is struck contained in the cylinder.
That is one in every of my favourite issues George has created from discovered scrap steel. He rescued this bent piece of conduit from a ditch alongside our avenue, thought of it for some months, after which mounted it, together with a number of rusty wrenches, on two items of cedar, formed to turn out to be a chook and the worm. It’s a much-appreciated handrail happening the stone steps into the yard.
Our most prized steel items are by Andrew Carson (andrewcarsonsculpture.com), the Seattle artist who’s the creator of many windsculptures across the Seattle space and past. They’re beautifully crafted of solid coloured glass and stainless-steel; the glass cups face in reverse instructions on every of 5 separate rounds so that every one rotates in the wrong way from the one beneath. The primary one we acquired (pictured on an earlier submit) is now over 20 years previous; has survived snow, rain, excessive winds, and falling branches; and nonetheless turns as quietly and easily as when it was put in. I acquired to call this one: She’s Tina Turner. She might flip crazy-fast on a stormy winter day because the wind comes up off Lake Sammamish, or simply transfer at a lazy tempo on a quiet summer time day.
We all know autumn is coming when the clumps of epimedium—one other one in every of my most dependable crops—begin turning coloration. I believe this one is ‘Orange Queen’ (Epimedium × warleyense ‘Orange Queen’, Zones 7–9), named for the small orange flowers that cling from wiry stems in early spring.
Thanks a lot for sharing your exceptional assortment of funky sculptures with us, Jeanne! You and your associate clearly have an unbelievable eye for artwork, and I like how a lot persona shines by means of in your backyard.
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