N W LIVING

by Valerie Easton | photos by Mike Siegel

Mature conifers and a gravel forecourt complement the rectilinear Georgian Revival-style facade of the historic home, designed by Seattle architect Julian Everett nearly a hundred years ago.

Garden designer Rick Kyper created a slice of the Riviera in the historic back garden of Steve Walker and Deborah Weaseas Denny Blaine estate. He added palm trees, Italian cypress, pots of hydrangeas and fresh hedging.

It was the second owner, Harry Ostrander, who hired the Olmsted Brothers to design the estates gardens. The famed Massachusetts rm had already designed Denny Blaine Park next door to the property as part of the brothers comprehensive park plan for Seattle. The rectangular terraces, curving pathways and brick walls from the Olmsteds original 1917 design still dene the

Kyper retained the formal geometry and pathways of the original rose garden. He replaced the roses with a tiered Pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia), hedges of Euonymus microphylla, hydrangeas and perennials for year-round interest.

Hot-colored plantings raise the temperature of the garden a few degrees in summer. Designer Rick Kypers border is punctuated with refurbished columns, tying the age of the house to the updated plantings of catmint, lilies, agapanthus and poppies.

T H E S E AT T L E T I M E S

JUNE 10, 2012

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