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Bainbridge Island Open Day KITSAP COUNTY BAINBRIDGE ISLAND CHAPMAN'S GARDEN 10666 Manitou Park Boulevard 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The garden is in an old High Bank neighborhood that once housed vacation cabins or lumber worker’s homes. In those days the mosquito fleet operated around this coast. In planning our garden, we took into account the old trees on and around the surrounding properties. It is not a “shade garden”, but it is shaded. It provides color and interest year round with blooms beginning in February and finishing with a 'Forest Pansy' leaf turn in October. It is loose and rambling. As you walk down past the cypress hedge there are rhododendrons, varieties of hydrangea, lemon fuchsia, azalea, hosta, hellebores and heather. Succulents and herbs grow over the low rock walls. Trial and error ground covers show up here and there. It is a charming northwest garden. Around to the front of the house is a spectacular view from the high bank toward Seattle. Large pots on the main deck are filled with tropicals. Here, the side yard plantings are simple: ornamental grasses, flax, yarrow, purple thistle, and a small lawn. A magnificent old fir is right in the middle—its twisted branches providing shade through the long summer days.
NEW | I From Seattle take the Bainbridge Island Ferry from Coleman Dock. On the Island, follow 305 to the fourth traffic light; turn right onto Manitou Beach Drive. With-
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in 100 yards is a fork, follow left onto North Madison. At Valley Road (4-way stop) turn right and follow the road past Bay Hay, continuing down around a curve where the name changes to Manitou Beach Road. Continue about 0.25 mile and turn left onto Manitou Park Boulevard. Number 10666 is the eighth driveway on the right. Park on the sides and walk down.
house on the right. Park on the street and walk up the driveway. Distance is just under 3 miles from the ferry. From Kitsap Peninsula, take Highway 305 to Bainbridge Island. Once on Bainbridge, go about 3 miles to Manitou Beach/Sportsman Club Road intersection. Turn left onto Manitou Beach and proceed as directed above.
THE DEMIANEW GARDENS 10101 Edgecomb Place N.E. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PEYTON GULLY GARDEN 3948 El Cimo Lane N.E.
We are situated on a hill overlooking beautiful Puget Sound. Our property includes both shady woodland and full sun areas, so we are able to have a diverse collection of plants. Our goal is to always have something in bloom from early spring through fall. We also love fragrance, so we have used many different types of plants. In spring we have a profusion of bulbs and early blooming perennials such as epimediums and terrestrial orchids. As spring gives way to summer, we have blue Himalayan poppies, peonies, delphiniums, and finally roses. Mid summer is full of daylilies, Asian and Oriental lilies, and many other perennials. Late summer gives us perennial lobelia, sedum, and many fuchsias. We have fruits and vegetables mixed into our sunny beds, so we enjoy our own organic produce throughout the season.
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From the Bainbridge Ferry Terminal, take Highway 305 north to the fourth traffic light and turn right onto Manitou Beach. Keep right and go about 100 yards to Edgecombe Place and turn right. We are the first
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. My garden started in 2000, after our house was built, and it was quite an experience for me, as I had never grown a garden in the ground, only in garden pots. It was empty soil, and it was almost two acres with a gully down each side of the property. There was about an acre left to plant. I started with trees, mainly Japanese maples, but also redbud 'Forest Pansy', Persian parrotia, mountain hemlocks, birch, and conifers. I added shrubs and finally a few perennials. As my garden aged so did I, so I have simplified my planting, mostly to these trees and shrubs, with rhododendrons, pieris, grasses, berberis, leucothoe, and nandina. I have developed my garden down into the gully. It is surrounded by a creek bed and features paths and bridges. I describe my garden as "serenity with an Asian flair!"
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From Lynwood Center Drive, turn west onto Baker Hill Road. Go up hill and as it curves and starts downhill and levels out, Palomino will come in from the left. Turn left onto Palomino and drive to dead end. Turn
left onto Buckskin Road. Go down short hill to El Cimo Lane and turn right. Continue to dead end and turn left. Continue to 3948 El Cimo, with the stone circle fence.
OLAF RIBEIRO/NANCY ALLISON 10744 Manitou Beach Drive N.E. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Olaf Ribeiro/Nancy Allison garden is a small one-third-acre garden surrounding a 1920s-era English-style cottage. It was originally established as a “Last Chance” garden. Ailing plants that were sent to Olaf (a plant pathologist) for diagnosis were brought back to health and placed in the garden. This has resulted in an eclectic garden with a wide diversity of plants, each with its own story of survival. Spring is welcomed by primulas, rhododendrons, aquilegias, and a variety of bulbs. The Japanese laceleaf maples provide a splendid fall palette. The owners now strive to maintain a tranquil garden that has flowering plants throughout the year balanced with evergreens. The backyard has a signature forty-plusyear-old Styrax japonica, a Magnolia grandifolia, and a towering western red cedar (Thuja plicata). The sixty-foot-long privet hedge has been shaped into a dragon and other creatively shaped shrubs are scattered through the front yard. A row of exceptional pink roses, bred over forty years by a rose aficionado line, the south wall. All walkways and the fountain were constructed by the owners. The garden is shared with a wide variety of birds, squirrels, and visiting deer.
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Take the Seattle ferry to Bainbridge Island (a 30 minute ride). Once on the Island, go past the first and second stop lights (second stop light has a gas station on the left and a McDonald’s on the right), Go past this stop light, on past a yellow caution light and down the hill to another stop light. Turn right at this stoplight onto Sportsman
Club/Manitou Beach. Take the right fork (0.1 mile) and continue along the waterfront to stop sign (0.5 mile). Turn left onto Falk Road and go top of the hill to "T" intersection (0.5 mile). At the T-junction, turn left and follow road down the hill past Messenger house. We are the third house on left past Messenger house soon after the white picket fence (0.5 mile)
THE SKYLER GARDEN 9734 Manitou Place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gracefully surrounded by waves of cedar pickets, this private third-of-an-acre site sits at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. Nestled among tall firs, vine maples, rhododendrons, azaleas, viburnum and magnolias, these gardens have been a work in progress for more than thirty years. Stroll the pathways through serene surroundings, each leading to a different garden room, and you will discover endless groupings of hosta, hellebores, hebes, barberries, spirea, farfugeum, euphorbias, and more than 100 varieties of ferns - the gardeners passion. These gardens maintain interest throughout the year with hardscape, garden rocks and water features. Enjoy the serenity of these gardens.
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a tropical valley through the palms and bananas, a sunny patio with a stream, yuccas, eucalyptus, and other drought-tolerant plants. A courtyard gives the affect of a terrarium. Our house is tucked into the extensive gardens with every window a framed view into the garden.
NEW | I From the Edmonds-Kingston Ferry Terminal Path go northwest on Kingston Ferry Slip toward EdmondsKingston Ferry Terminal Path. Merge onto Route 104 West/N.E. 1st Street/N.E. Highway 104. Continue 2.6 miles. Turn right onto Hansville Road N.E. Go 0.6 mile and turn right. Garden will be on left in 0.3 mile.
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From Seattle take the Bainbridge Island Ferry from Coleman Dock on the waterfront (a 30-minute crossing). On Bainbridge Island, take Highway 305 to fourth traffic light and turn right onto Manitou Beach Drive. Immediately turn left at fork onto North Madison. Turn right onto Beach Crest Drive. Turn left onto Manitou Place. Please park in cul-desac and walk through the steel gates.
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LEAF WORKS 28212 Hansville Road N.E. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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