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JULY 5, 2023
VOL. 104, NO. 27
DOUBLE-WHAMMY DUOS
here is something wondrous about a wide expanse, where the eye can take in loping swaths of curated, symphonic color. When done well, the scale makes it all the more impressive. However, having all that real estate also gives the designer some leeway – your eye does take rests and blinks occasionally. So, you can have ombre effects and small moments that differ throughout the composition, too. The point is, for a plant collector like myself, you can get away with using more plants. But sometimes, and more and more these days, I find myself struck by the power of two. The power of deciding on a double-whammy of a combo that doesn’t try to be everything all at once, and as a result, packs a real visual punch. Like a two-color outfit, combinations like these are supremely restful to the eye – it’s a real no-brainer, literally, with fewer elements to observe, but a lot to appreciate if done well. All designer and artists do this, to make arresting compositions in interiors, flower arrangements or great outfits. In the garden, hopefully, you are making a combination that will last. To make such a combo, find plants that like similar growing conditions. There’s not much point in setting your couple up to fail. Then find some contrast in habit, leaf-shape, flower color. Now that your brain only has two plants to
Erica Browne Grivas Get Growing
instead of going for the complement directly across from your color, you go for the complement’s neighbors on both sides. At my recent visit to the Bellevue Botanical Garden’s Perennial Border, I took at least fifty photos, but the most eye-catching one was just two plants. It was a fern with crisply outlined textural fronds paired with one of those mega-hostas with variegated leaves that look great with almost anything. Bam. Almost as cool, at home I’m Courtesy Erica Browne Grivas admiring a combination in a dryFern and variegated hosta, Bellevue Botanical Garden. shade border with a blocked-South view. I have a variegated Carex, from one to the other – are we salty of Baptisia ‘Carolina Moonlight’ think about, you can excite it with possibly the cultivar ‘Feather Falls,’ or sweet? Examples include wide wildly disparate elements. If you with rose ‘Graham Thomas’ whose paired with Cornus ‘Artic Sun,’ leaves with skinny, spreading with think of the taste sensation of a round blossoms where the same soft a yellow-twig dogwood shrub. upright, curly with straight, lime stew, with layered flavor, that’s the buttery tones. In winter, the bare stems of the with purple, or blue with orange. same experience as a mixed border But sometimes near-misses, dogwood match with the sedge’s If subtle elegance is your jam, – there lots of combinations, colors unexpected colors that are non-quite creamy leaves, and in summer, the you can turn the contrast dial down matching nor opposite can add a and textures to take in. In contrast, dogwood’s bold, veined foliage one of these combos is like salted seeking some color echoes from bit of spice. In color theory, you can stands out against the strappy sedge. caramel sauce on vanilla ice cream, bloom to leaf to stem. In a sunny find some of those labeled splitPLANTS Page 3Æ which makes your senses richochet hillside, I used to mix the spikes complements on the color wheel –
Visit Seattle, community partners ready for 2023 MLB All-Star Week
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Visit Seattle is thrilled about all the events scheduled during Major League Baseball’s All-Star Week, set to take place from July 7-11 “This is an incredibly exciting moment for Seattle,” said Tammy Canavan, President & CEO of Visit Seattle. “Collaborating with the dedicated Visit Seattle team and our esteemed community partners to present our city in its
utmost splendor has been truly inspiring. Our goal is for all the baseball enthusiasts visiting during All-Star Week to create unforgettable memories that will endure a lifetime. We hope they leave with a strong desire to return and experience even more of what Seattle has to offer.” Visit Seattle projects MLB All-Star Week will generate more than $50 million in economic impact to the community through various events.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Mariners, community organizations, and elected officials, Visit Seattle is curating and celebrating events and activations throughout the city, ensuring there are plenty of engaging experiences for everyone to enjoy beyond the official MLB activities. “We can’t wait for everyone to experience All-Star Week in Seattle. It will be a citywide celebration thanks to the tremendous collaboration with Major League Baseball,
Visit Seattle and the Seattle Sports Commission,” said Catie Griggs, Seattle Mariners President of Business Operations. “This year’s lineup of All-Star Week events and activations will showcase the best of our city and provide fans with a lifetime of memories.” “Since 2019 when the Seattle Sports Commission first began working on the MLB All-Star Week bid with the Mariners
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