
Happy Friday GPODers!
Sadly, we’ve reached the end of Cherry Ong’s tour of Nancy Heckler’s garden in Indianola, Washington. While Nancy’s garden has seemingly endless treasures and areas to explore, we’ll leave a little to the imagination. Nancy occasionally opens her gardens to tours for the public, so we’d highly suggest keeping your eye open for garden tours around the Puget Sound area for a chance to see Nancy’s incredible space in person. Of course, if you’re unable to make you way out to Washington, you can always scroll through all of Cherry’s fabulous photos she’s shared with us over several weeks (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3).
Today we explore another garden room where art comes alive! 🦎 This room is tucked into a far side of the garden where Fergus and Brocc led us to. The first thing that greets you on arrival is this unique inanimate lizard climbing up the tree. Nancy said it was made by a friend and it appears like it has lived in the forest for many years. She doesn’t move the piece around as parts of it come off every time it is moved.
Our experience is enhanced by the sweet smell of the forest throughout the visit, but most especially in this garden room.
There are several more rooms but this will be the final installment contributed to this series. Until the next garden tour.
Cherry Ong
Structures in a garden are just as important as the plants that surround, and Nancy has made a point to make each one of these “garden rooms” cohesive yet wonderfully unique. A shed this small can be bland, but the addition of an ornate little window and exaggerated roof eaves gives it so much character.
One final HUGE thank you to Cherry for sharing this very special tour of Nancy’s garden with us. Cherry has been continuously generous in sharing her garden as well as the many private and public gardens she visits, and this visit with Nancy Heckler was no exception. I can’t wait to see the adventures that Cherry continues to have in 2025!
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Comments
I couldn't love this garden more if I tried... everything about it is magical and charming. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. That lizard is marvelous! Pretty certain that fairies live in her garden...
Such an interesting garden! Full of imagination and great plants!
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