Author: Suzette de Turenne
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Washington Trails Association Photography Contest
The 2020 Northwest Exposure Photo Contest is now open! Select here to enter your photos: Enter your photos here. Northwest Exposure is WTA’s annual photo contest that celebrates outdoor photography and the community of hikers that explore Washington’s trails. The 2020 contest will run from August 17 to October 18 and features five categories. Winners…
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Blue Clematis
A must for those who like blue in the garden. This Clematis integrifolia Durandii blooms from June to September and only gets about 5 feet tall. It is perfect for winding through other shrubs. Prune back to within 12 inches every February. A very well behaved beauty.
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06/20/20 Summer Solstice Photos
2020 SUMMER SOLSTICE GALLERY HERE for quick UPLOAD select here (link also in gallery description) Please leave comments in the Smugmug gallery, or below, describing your photo.
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Dogwood Beauty
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Graceful Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This Helleborus ‘Frostkiss’ has a lovely bloom in early spring, but I equally value its beautiful foliage that stays looking good for a very long time.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sheila’s Perfume’ is a sturdy, dependable producer and its fragrance helps it live up to its name.
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Paris polyphylla
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This ‘Heronswood Form’ of a Paris polyphylla is a Dan Hinkley specialty. It is one of my favorites as it is very unusual and this picture is of its first few days of putting in an appearance in my yard, just this week. Likes mostly shade.
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Carnivores Alive and Well!
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 My potted collection of carnivorous plants is dominated by Sarracenia flava – still alive from our SGC flower show several years ago.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Just Joey’ hybrid tea is a favorite although not considered the best form for a hybrid tea because it’s petals are more loose and relaxed. If grown mostly in the sun, the color will be paler – in partial shade, more intense, but might not be as floriferous. Mine is…
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ is a prolific bloomer. Often has so many blooms on one stem that it can fill a vase. A good one for the back of the garden as it can be quite tall.
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Simplicity in Floral Design
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 The first Rosa ‘Marilyn Monroe’ hybrid tea in one of my favorite bud vases.
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Autumn Fern Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Autumn Fern, Dryopteris erythosora ‘Brilliance’ – lives up to its name. Rarely blemished and brightens a shady spot; new spring growth emerges in coppery red colors before maturing to green.
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Penstemon
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Three photos of Penstemon digitalis ‘Pocahontas’ – a close up of the blooms, one showing the maroon foliage and the other with a hummingbird. Absolutely the hummingbird’s favorite plant in my garden.
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Rockery Plant
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This specialty plant is a Blue Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum ‘Rocky Point’ and is only 3 – 4 inches high. It is super cute in the rockery.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Mukdenia rossi ‘Crimson Fans’ has maple like leaves and becomes more colorful as summer turns to fall.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hardy Impatiens, Impatiens omeiana, adds flare to darker areas of the garden.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Fame!’ Grandiflora is an outstanding rose. It holds its shape on the bush or as a cut, even after its color has faded. Sadly, no scent. Did you know that typically, the stronger the scent, the less a rose holds as a cut or on the bush?
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Signature’ produces perfectly formed hybrid tea roses.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Marilyn Monroe’ hybrid tea is one of my favorites.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ adds wonderful foliage to the garden; perennial
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Fuchsia
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fuchsia ‘Golden Herald’ – wonderful combo of chartreuse leaves with bold blossom color
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Heuchera Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Marmalade’ – perennial foliage
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Cocomint’ – great foliage!
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’ – grown for its fabulous foliage.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa Multiflora ‘Sunglow’ – truly glows in the garden.
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IRIS
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Iris ‘Caesar’s Brother’ – an outstanding blue
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Paradise’ is a beautiful mauve with pink edging that holds well in bad weather.
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Tulips
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 I took this photo in my dining room with my iPhone and then cropped it a bit. No other editing.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Day Breaker’ is one of my favorite Floribunda roses. A great performer!
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TULIP LIFE CYCLE
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 An example of scanography whereby the photo is created with a scanner.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Comte de Chambord’ Old Garden Rose – strong fragrance
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BIRD SONG
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Captured this little guy singing his heart out. Used a telephoto lens on my Nikon camera & used Photoshop to remove one branch that interrupted and distracted from overall effect.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hosta ‘Fortunei Aureomarginata’ is very easy to grow and does not seem as palatable to slugs/snails as some of the more fragile leafed Hostas.
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CUH Spring
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Use a telephoto lens to discover unexpected visitors on flowers in environmentally sensitive areas in order to respect signage requests to avoid disturbing the areas along the walking paths.
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PATIO PLANTER
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 I have planted this patio pot with Persian Shield (Strobilanthjes dyerianus; California Lilac (Ceonothus griseus var. horizontalis); Rock Cress (Aubrietz x cultorum ‘Rokey’s Purple’; Salvia ‘Black & Blue’; Abutilon ‘Lucky Lantern Tangerine’; Salvia greggi ‘Smokin Lavender’; Potato Vines ‘Blackie’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’; Bacopa ‘Blue Sky’ and ‘White’; and Geranium ‘Sunrise Violet’
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2020 VISIONS AMIDST THE VIRUS
—–Original Message—– From: JoAnne Rosen <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, May 8, 2020 2:16 pm Subject: SEATTLE GARDEN CLUB – 2020 VISIONS AMIDST THE VIRUS A message from Suzette: Hello fellow SGC members! Since every flower show has been cancelled across the U.S., and SGC has also cancelled its Annual Luncheon meeting, plans are in the works…