Arbor Pergola Designs

Model train, dog playground to be featured in Saturday garden tour in Sequim

SEQUIM — The secrets of private gardens will be thrown open to the public Saturday.

A self-guided tour of eight Sequim gardens is planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the 18th annual Petals & Pathways Home Garden Tour, sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County.

Those on the tour will see a garden that is also a model railroad, another with a playground for dogs and another designed on the principles of feng shui.

The gardens are a showcase of do-it-yourself design and maintenance practices.

Tour participants will see how these gardeners coped with this year’s winter weather conditions by replacing or redesigning parts of their gardens.

Four of the featured gardens are situated on small city lots and demonstrate how limited space can be designed to muffle traffic noise and provide a private retreat.

Proceeds from the tour help support the Master Gardener plant clinics and educational programs.

The programs include the Green Thumb Gardening Tips Brown Bag and Class Act at Woodcock series and Youth Enrichment Program and demonstration gardens, which are open to the public free of charge.

The gardens include the Woodcock Gardens, the Olympic Peninsula Demonstration Garden being developed near Carrie Blake Park and the garden at Robin Hill Farm, which supplies fresh vegetables and fruit to the Salvation Army soup kitchen in Port Angeles.

Master Gardeners, a cooperative program between Washington State University and Clallam County, provides up-to-date information on sustainable gardening practices.

For more information on the tour, visit the website www.petalsandpathways.com .

Gardens on tour

Here are descriptions of the gardens on the tour:

■ 91 Dickinson St.

This garden is a seven-year work-in-progress.

Jan and Gary Chapman are do-it-yourself gardeners who have transformed a 2½-acre parcel of flat pasture into approximately 1½ acres of manicured gardens where 10 planting beds are connected by wandering gravel paths.

Along with a garden shed filled with orchids, the Chapmans have cultivated a range of ground covers, perennials and evergreens and included among their trees contorted weeping birch, purple birch, sourwood, magnolia and apple trees.

A new arbor will be home to two newly planted Cecil Brunner climbing roses.

■ 453 W. Hammond St.

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