When
Garden Tours
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
10:00 – 3:00
Tour Leads: John van den Meerendonk, Shayne Chandler
20 people maximum
$35 Members (with Coupon Code) / $45 Non-Members
(Heronswood entry fee additional $10 day of tour)
The tour begins at 10:00 a.m. at Heronswood Garden, 7530 288th St. NE, Kingston, WA. Unless you are already a Heronswood member, there will be a $10 per person admission fee. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at the end of this portion of the tour at 11:30.
At 12:15, because of limited parking space at Shayne Chandler’s, we will gather into carpools to drive the few blocks to his unique and beautiful garden and nursery. Carpools will return to Heronswood to pick up their vehicles before 3:00.
Heronswood Garden
Longtime Heronswood volunteer and gifted speaker on landscape design and horticulture, John van den Meerendonk, will lead the group through the Heronswood Garden. It features six distinctive and beautiful landscapes, each with a special focus – Renaissance Garden, Rock Garden, Woodland Garden, Traveler’s Garden, Heron House & Formal Gardens and the S’Klallam Connections Garden. A beautiful and immense fern table nestled amongst mossy logs is not to be missed!
The Heronswood Garden, owned by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, seeks to inspire the community with its plant collections and charismatic landscapes, to educate them on the connections between plants and people, to encourage them to protect plants and their natural habitats, and to appreciate the great diversity of plants and the people who care for them. Heronswood celebrates the diversity of cultures in the Pacific Northwest while showcasing the magic and majesty of botanical treasures from around the world.
John van den Meerendonk is a landscape/garden designer, horticulturist, and philanthropist, as well as a charter member and past president of the International Hardy Fern Foundation. John has planned and designed specialized gardens for many of the most iconic gardens in the Puget Sound, including Heronswood Gardens, the Signature Fern Garden at the UW Arboretum, the Stumpery at the Rhododendron species garden, the Bainbridge Island Library and the Bloedel Reserve where he was Director of Horticulture and Grounds from 1985-1990. John is a gifted speaker and leads educational seminars and tours. He is also a longtime volunteer at Heronswood Garden.
Plant LLC
8090 NE Iron Lane, Kingston WA 98346
Plant LLC is a landscape design firm and rare plant nursery. With a combination of artful design and obvious plant passion, Shayne Chandler brings special focus on foliage, texture and color, to create a garden for all seasons, while showcasing many rare plants he has collected from the world.
The garden covers most of 5 rolling acres with winding paths opening into different rooms. Some areas are shade gardens, full of woodland denizens like ferns, arisaema and podophyllum. Others are full of sun for agapanthus, leptospermum, eucalyptus, etc. The back porch offers a tropical view of bananas, cardiocrinum and gunnera and the courtyard gives the sense of being in a terrarium.
Shayne Chandler has been designing NW gardens for the past 25 years. His landscape design firm, Plant LLC, specializes in rare and exceptional plants, collected and trialed by Shayne from his many expeditions to such far-flung places as Tasmania, Vietnam, Nepal, Ecuador, China and India.
Plant LLC landscape design provides design, installation, or consultation. Whether a new design, or re-furbishing an existing garden, Shayne works closely with clients to help create a well-integrated garden that fits both the architecture, the site qualities, and the needs of the client. With extensive plant knowledge he uses folial texture and color, and interesting bark and berries, to extend the design well beyond the flowers of summer, providing a garden that can be enjoyed year-round.
Plants from Shayne’s nursery will be available for purchase.