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| Hellebore and Puschkinia |
Why perplex? It's perplexing to me how two brothers in the Salt Lake City area figured out how to grow the best plants in the best possible ways. The Stireman gardens, in Sandy and Salt Lake City proper, are featured below: I took pictures on several occasions: the sparse pictures taken in March, the lusher ones in late April--two or three years ago now. I just uploaded these for a talk--and realized I've not shared them properly, although I did
a cryptic blog about John once...with horrible pictures taken in winter--but that pretty much sums it up. Obviously, this jumble of pictures from two gardens taken at different times (both a bit early for many of the best plants) doesn't begin to capture their magic--you really have to be there. They epitomize "Shibui"--the Japanese concept of quiet, perfect elegance, only in steppe mode--with flamboyant colors. I'll not comment much in this, except to point out a few great plants here and there.
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| The pond at Tony's |
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| I believe these are Draba polytricha |
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| Probably Draba dedeana |
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| Troughs full of African succulents! |
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| That's Delosperma sphalmanthoides in the bottom trough! |
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| Out of focus Lewisia bed--sorry! |
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| Ranunculus gramineus and Aethionema grandiflorum run amok |
Also check out the
great piece about John Stireman in the Deseret News. And do check out John Stireman's account of his building his front berm
in this old NARGS journal (his piece is towards the end of the .pdf. And finally, to see Tony and John's gardens at the height of June bloom (which I have yet to do--maybe next year?) check out "Sierra Rain Shadow's"
wonderful album on Flikr. If you haven't guessed yet, the URL's are embedded in the paler gray text above...
Perplexing my eye: if they weren't so nice they'd be annoying!
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