Visit Gardens:
Bullivant : Driggs : Stanley-Moyemont : Olsen : Treherne-Michel : Little-Lewis
The 2008 Garden of Denny & Diane Driggs
The first question that visitors to the breathtaking Driggs gardens might ask is how the owners could muster the will power to give up an afternoon lazily watching the Puget Sound ferries pass by from the porch of their waterfront home in order to lug around granite footpath slabs or battle grape mildew in a fledgling vineyard.
Most of the present gardens evolved when the house was remodeled seven years ago, and are all owner-designed, constructed, and maintained. Denny Drigg’s passions are the vegetable gardens, cranberry plants, fruit orchard, and vineyard. He’s hoping to produce his first batch of wine this fall, from vines grown from Bainbridge Island Vineyard cuttings.
Diane Driggs turned her creative energies to the flower gardens. The captivating results include seven garden “rooms,” each with its own floral character, climate, and view, and all connected by paths made from stone saved from the old house or the remodel. The “Margarita Garden,” for example, is at the end of a walkway “just wide enough for you to tiptoe to the garden without spilling your Margarita.”
Water requirements are kept to a minimum by the selection of drought-tolerant plants and the installation of a waste water irrigation system. Drainage and erosion problems, especially on the 40-foot bank and bulkhead area – a delightful walk via a brick pathway - are tackled by the use of native plants and strategically placed catch basins and drains.
You might want to end you visit at the partially shaded “Wine Garden” - the perfect spot to sit and watch the birds come and go to the feeders, especially on a warm summer day. But Bainbridge in Bloom guests – you do have to leave.
Vist more gardens:
Bullivant : Driggs : Stanley-Moyemont : Olsen : Treherne-Michel : Little-Lewis
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