Steve and Janice Tallman showcase their garden via drone video.
"This is our Garden in Everett WA. We have lived her for 26 years.
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Drone Video Link: Janice's Garden
Video courtesy of: Karl Tallman from Aptos California
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Hello Janice & Steve - What an absolutely brilliant way to take us on a virtual tour of your outstanding terraced garden with such a lovely water view! It is simply all class. There are too many wonderful features that highlighting any particular ones would not do justice to all of them. It is great that there were people in your garden for the video. Did you design and landscape the garden yourselves? OK Karl - lets keep it in the family and give you some credit as well for the video! Cheers from Oz
Well, well, there goes my productivity for the day, Steve and Janice. I've already watched the video twice and I think there will be more times to come. This was an outstanding way to show the full impact of your amazing landscaping...absolutely fascinating. When it comes to the still photos (are they screen captures from the drone video, by the way?)...I'm particularly struck by the perfect placement of the weeping evergreen in picture #5...it creates a plant waterfall to mimic the water one right next to it. Everything is Sooo beautifully done and and your standard for care and maintenance is admirably and enviably high (ha, higher than the drone can fly.)
How fun to get a birds eye view of a garden. I loved the video. The gold carex in the 6th photo really makes the hostas pop. Love the borrowed view in the first photo (Puget Sound?). Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely top notch garden and high maintenance. (Christopher Llyod about Great Dixter:"Dixter’s is a high maintenance garden; I make no bones about that. It is effort that brings reward. There are many borders and much work goes into them. Labour saving ground cover is not for me. If you see ground cover, it’s there because, first and foremost, I like it. If it does also save labour, that is an incidental benefit.") Thanks for sharing your hard work. Love it and your video. You two bring gardening to a new level.
it is a very high maintenance garden. I love working in it but my hands are getting tired. I plan to add more conifers in the future.
OK, garden lust. The way you have mixed and threaded color combinations, textures, sizes, plant types, et al is amazing. The drone video is the perfect way to showcase your beautifully landscaped garden from all sides and directions. I frequently find myself, when looking at other posting, wishing for a diagram or bird's eye perspective of the gardens being shared. Now I find myself wishing for more ground level pictures of your handiwork. Your garden is obviously dearly loved. one question: What is the weeping conifer by the water feature & lovely crane statue? Thanks for sharing.
Stunning garden! How awesome to have the drone video. And I bet with your collection of conifers it is just a beautiful in winter. How I would love to wander down your walkways!
you are welcome to visit anytime
Thank you
Absolutely incredible. I wish all the plants came with labels so I could zoom in on all of them! The video was amazing- you have carved out a piece of heaven on your hillside, no square inch is wasted. You have masterfully combined such a huge selection of textures and colors, conifers and deciduous-
I am green with envy!
I made a page on pintrest. Plants in my garden. I am still working on it. Winter project.
I will search it out! Awesome!
WOW! Incredible--very lovely and your hard work is evident.
Wow, that is unbelievable.
Just amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful garden. I too would appreciate knowing the names of your various plants and what zone are you in.
zone 8b. I have made a category on my pinterest page. Plants in my garden.
Good morning across the water, Janet and Steve. You certainly have made good use of your hillside and I love the drone perspective. Is your large beautiful golden conifer a Cryptomeria Sekkan-Sugi? Looking at how green everything is there, you must have taken these photos earlier in the summer or you have a great watering system. I love your paths and great uses of grasses. This is a garden that needs a walk through so we'll be over later today:)
So Janice ( sorry about ac mistake), after reading other comments, I realized that I missed the best part of this post, the actual video. Since it's from two years ago, do you go back to it to see how things were doing then? This is such a great way to take a garden tour.
Thanks for sharing.
I do look at it in the winter months. It helps me remember the dahlia colors etc
Oh, didn't know about that tour. If your garden is an indication of the level of gardens on the tour, we'll have to look into it next summer.
I have been watering like crazy. I was on the Mukilteo quilt and garden tour last weekend so things needed to be green. We had 1000-1200 people in two days. My paths never felt so narrow. You are right about the Cryptomeria!
What a lovely mature garden! It is clear you spend a lot of time caring for it. Inspiring and lovely. Thanks for sharing it with GPOD garden lovers.
Wow!!! This is a beautiful garden and so much work must have gone into creating and maintaining it!!! Not a weed to be seen!!! Everything looks so healthy and vigorous!!!
I have added a ton of compost to it. I have to carry it in buckets because there is no path for a wheel barrow. I have been told that I work harder not smarter. LOL
It certainly shows your diligent work and passion!!! What kind of compost do you use or do you have a composter for your food scraps?
I feel your pain here, we also have a garden that requires lots of bucket carrying!
Whoa! I am speechless! I love the boxwood? hedge. It is so well manicured. Everything you have done is so well planned out! Are you two professional gardeners? I know what you mean by tired hands... well done!
Janice, the view of your gardens is incredible from above... all the textures, shapes and colors make a statement as to why they were placed in their particular spots. Gorgeous design. You certainly deserve your awards, and I'm guessing it's not only your hands that are tired at the end of a day of gardening!
I do all of the gardening. My husband grocery shops and cooks my dinner. I am a lucky girl
How wonderful for both of you! You get to do what you love and he can reap the benefits... sounds like a great partnership!
Awesome garden! Thanks for sharing. I have a very similar garden (in my dreams).
Love the combinations of color and texture in the foliage! In the photo third from last, the light blue plant -- hosts? -- is stunning! Do you know the name?
the hosta is called June. The gold grass is Bowles Golden Sedge
Thanks so much! You have a great eye and seemingly boundless energy! Inspiring.
Not a view you get to see often. Looks beautiful from above and at eye level.
Beautiful!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Whoa ! That is pretty. Greatest way to see the garden. So much better than regular photo that doesn't give proper perspective- Nice
You've made such great use of your hillside site, Janice! I love all the interconnecting pathways, the many seating nooks (though I'll bet you don't get to rest in any of them for long!), and your wonderful Dr. Seuss tree next to the house. Is it a Giant Weeping Sequoia?
thank you. Yes it is a Giant Weeping Sequoia.
I really like how it ties your tall house into the hillside and mimics the flow of your garden. Such a cool tree!
Very cool!
Wow! I am absolutely in awe of the garden and the video. Fantastic!
I will echo everyone else's comments about your glorious garden. Wish I could have been on that tour. Just drove through there last weekend for a garden tour in Langley BC. Besides the beautiful garden I'm sure you get to see all of the ferries and other ships plying the sound. MaryAnn Vancouver WA
Wow! So fantastic. Just beautiful, I can't compliment you enough. I worry about buying too many plants, but you have all of yours arranged so lovely. I see I have some catching up to do
This is mouth dropping ,awe inspiring, beautiful !! Well done ! You must feel in Heaven on Earth !
Unbelievably lovely garden. Congratulations on keeping it all so beautifully manicured, I could not be more impressed. Thank you for sharing your work and showing us all how very talented you are. A real treat.
This video could be used to sell drones to gardeners (and to make us all spend more time in the garden to strive for a garden like this!). Absolutely spectacular design, plant choices and maintenance. Thank you for sharing!
I thought the same thing! I've never thought of drones for touring gardens. I used to think drones were kind of a silly thing for people to buy.
Very cool. Such a great layout and so many wonderful specimens.
What an awesome garden! You must spend a lot of time out there because it doesn't look like there's a leaf out of place. I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for the tour.
What is the bright yellow tree? Gorgeous plantings..and what is the tall royal blue flowers?
Wow! What fun. With a garden so full, how else could you get such a view. Amazing what can be done with technology these days. Did you have it photographed professionally or are you able to do it yourself?
my brother in law did it for me. Karl Tallman from Aptos Ca.
Thanks for answering. He did a beautiful job using all the different altitudes to show off all the nooks and crannies of your lovely home and garden.
Absolutely stunning! I want more... Yours is a garden I would love to come and stroll through. Thanks so much for sharing!
I commented after the video...but this was an incredible video and jaw dropping gardens I had to write again. I am litterally awestruck!
thank you!!!!
Love it, what great views, as Cenepk10 mentioned we don't get enough long views. Even your veggies are in a beautiful setting. I am working on a new garden having moved last year from a much larger garden so having lots of fun with it as it was a blank canvas! I hope you enjoy relaxing in your beautiful oasis!
Wonderful perspective. It really show off your design. Glad you put in some photos too so we could see things up close.
Very nice garden. I live in Newcastle, WA
we have been here 26 years and I have been working on it the whole time. More intensely in the last 10 years.. It is about 1/2 acre.
AMAZING garden! Such plants, texture, color, variety of trees and shrubs , DESIGN!. Awesome video, too ..what fun that must have been to make. Was it hard to do? I have no idea. Eerie and fascinating watching first man walk in video. I'm very low tech. but found it very interesting.
that was my neighbor Jill, she was wondering what that buzzing noise was. My brother in law Karl brought his Drone up from California to film my Husbands 60th Birthday tubing on Lake Shoecraft. He was nice enough to do my garden for me.
Probably the most beautiful garden I've seen on these pages. You clearly love plants and have an eye for putting them together effectively.
thank you!
No other word except perfect! Thank you for sharing! You've certainly made me smile.
thank you!
What a beautiful space you've created! I love the use of the drone to capture views that 'explain' the layout of the garden and show how thoughtfully it's put together. I'm also gardening in the northwest so of course I love your plant palette! Lovely.
Gorgeous!!
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