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Several members from our Garden Club had a delightful tour with Kelly at Far Reaches Farm and/or Botanical Conservancy gardens in Port Townsend.
Far Reaches is no longer open to the public due to staffing issues, but a good number of their plants are available online.
I can’t possibly repeat the botanical names nor pronounce them but the flowers and plants were many and lovely. And although I didn’t
take a photo of the members who joined the tour, I’ve included a few of my favorite flowers in the photos below.
A really useful tip I learned from Kelly at Far Reaches, is the use of crushed hazelnut shells. The shells are added as a mulch on the
nursery stock as well as the walkways to prevent the pesky moss from overtaking their gardens. He buys the shells in bulk from a
company in Oregon and it got me thinking this might be a good idea for our gardens too.
Priscilla Hudson describes Kelly at Far Reaches as an Encyclopedia of information and I concur. Listening to him instantly recall
the names, habits, and country each specie came from is amazing.
Well, here’s ‘on to the next tour’ and all that we can learn. Enjoy.
Marilyn Reinarz, Field Trip Coordinator
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