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Pamela’s Container Garden on Fidalgo Island
27.08.2024 - 17:50 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Hi GPODers!
Today we’re switching to island time and visiting Pamela Roats on Fidalgo Island in Washington. We’ve seen her gardens a couple of times in the past, first when she was living in the nearby San Juan Islands (A Plant Happy Climate) and then again shortly after she moved to her current home (Pamela’s New Garden on Fidalgo Island). Located in the Pacific Northwest, just a stone’s throw from Canada, Fidalgo Island is not the tropical oasis that the word “island” first brings to mind, but Pamela is still able to create a lush landscape with the help of lots and lots of pots.
My name is Pamela Roats. I garden on Fidalgo Island right next to the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
I have many containers in my garden. A lot of them frame a patio and make an intimate and private space for entertaining. I have lunch and dinner in the garden during the wonderful summer days.
I plant anything I like with lavender, roses, cosmos and fuchsia’s to tie it all together. I also have maples and evergreens in pots. Most are common plants from the northwest and I may add something unusual if I see something I like. I plant in individual pots of all kinds and in big planter boxes built in the garden. The best thing about pots is you can move around easily to highlight different areas. Trees in pots eventually go in the ground around the property.
I add local garden art and hanging lanterns with lights for evening ambience. The tree with the lanterns is an apple tree, which has been on the property for over 50 years. The placement of this tree makes the garden special.
Hope you enjoy the garden.
Some of the plants: Love and Wishes™ salvia (Salvia ‘Ser-Wish’, Zones 9–11),‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’ fuchsia (Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeiste
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