Chickadee Gardens

All apologies; it has been a while. An unexpected emergency appendectomy followed a week later by Thanksgiving had me seeing stars. Not the pretty kind either. Now on the mend and getting back into green, growing things brings me to another post from the Garden Fling , that of incredible plantswoman Nancy Heckler.  Hers is a third of an acre on the Kitsap Peninsula - Indianola, Washington to be precise. She is a plantswoman whose former two-acre garden graced the cover of Martha Stewart Living . In addition, she was the general manager of Heronswood Gardens for a time around 2013, something of a garden heroine to many of us. What a joy to visit the self-described sanctuary in the woods of a fellow texture and foliage lover.  In her own words: