In this presentation Daniel will share his experiences gardening in the floodplain of the Lower Snoqualmie River east of Seattle. With a climate both colder and wetter than the Puget Sound Basin, he and his partner Michael have faced many challenges developing their rough and tumble farm/garden nestled in the wilds of the Carnation Marsh Natural Area.
While Michael is a devoted evergreen mum hybridizer, Daniel is more of a dilettante, counting violets, willows, irises, and of course ferns, among his love interests. Though Daniel will touch upon the joys and travails of gardening in this unique situation, the focus of this presentation will be the ferns. At last count he is growing around 275 taxa of hardy and not-so-hardy ferns, in the ground and in containers.
Daniel Mount has spent most of his gardening career in the gardening mecca of the Pacific Northwest. Now retired he revels in being simply a home gardener again.
Gardens he created appeared on the covers of Sunset Magazine and Fine Gardening. His numerous articles have appeared in The American Gardener, Fine Gardening, Pacific Horticulture and many local publications. He has won three awards for Best Magazine Writing from the Garden Writer’s Association. He writes frequently for the Hardy Fern Foundation Quarterly and is an active board member.
In his free time he enjoys making jam and pickles, killing slugs, and napping.
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