Our garden is primarily influenced by my years hiking in the PNW seeing nature's beauty, and my 35 years in the garden community growing and collecting plants. Our garden is 1/3 acre set under mature trees, with each bed highlighting our collection of our favorites in various exposures and settings. We have mostly shade in the backyard with dry and moist beds with native plants intermixed with less common perennials, bulbs, and other plantings. We also have a dry shade bed with woodland orchids, triliiums, epimediums, and arisaema. In the front, we have a xeriscape, two rock crevice gardens featuring hundreds of alpines, and several beds of conifers, peonies, and other perennial delights. In the front beds I have tried to emulate a natural high altitude setting by using lots of rock, natural paths, and a stone wall to feature plants in unique ways. The garden features many dwarf conifers, maples, vines, unusual shrubs, unusual perennials, bulbs, natives and rock garden plants. I have a few troughs which are homemade and house my special treasures. Some of my favorite plants that I collect are hellebores, peonies, penstemons, primulas, lewisia, dodecatheon, delphiniums, trillium, iris, saxifrage, daphne, lilies, erythroniums, orchids, clematis, daphne, and more. I'm looking forward to sharing my passion for plants, and I hope you will come see my unique garden. If you like rock garden alpines, definitely make a visit in May.