BOOK EVENTS AT GARDEN TOUR 2005: 

The year 2005's garden tour featured four books whose topics and provenance unique to this year’s tour and also to Bainbridge Island.

Watch for the following titles at these venues:

• Book Events at Bainbridge in Bloom Garden Tour
• Available all weekend at the Bloom merchandise booth.

The Abundant Garden: A Celebration of Color, Texture, and Blooms. This book is a compilation and celebration of island gardens and their owners, many of them featured on previous garden tours. A compendium rich with photos and punctuated with pragmatic design principles, this text is the lens through which nine sumptuous gardens on Bainbridge are captured in all their glory. Bainbridge Island resident and celebrated photographer, Barbara Denk, is the artist who brought the spirit of these gardens and their owners into focus.

Barbara Denk presented a slide show featuring photos from The Abundant Garden, as part of the Bainbridge in Bloom Lecture Series. Copies of the book were available for purchase and signing by Barbara, following her presentation.

Barbara was also the photographer for the recently published A Garden Gallery: the Plants, Art and Hardscape of Little and Lewis. This text features captivating and glorious gardens created by islanders and artists, George Little and David Lewis, whose imaginative garden art and inspired use of unprecedented plant material has nurtured a growing trend in landscape design. A limited number of copies pre-signed by Little and Lewis were available for Barbara Denk to also sign, in conjunction with her presentation.

In the first garden on year 2005’s tour, come nose to toes – or is it snout to toe pads? – with this year’s garden tour poster child – the Pacific Treefrog. He and his pals lend their own unique voice, or ribbet, to a demonstration focused on gardening in the natural world, in harmony with the animal kingdom. Learn some basic how-to’s from Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, by Washington resident Russell Link. This text is designed to help you as a gardener plan ways to welcome birds, butterflies, and other fauna into your garden, your “habitat.” It will be available in conjunction with this demonstration.

It’s our privilege to feature a newly published text by Bainbridge Island resident and photographer Joel Sackett, An Island in Time. From the back cover: "Sackett's exploration of his adopted home is captured here in numerous images of the island community and in forty-two portraits of his island neighbors, whose own words, as recorded by Candace Jagel, reveal a rich variety of perspectives on the same place." This is the book to enjoy now and pass on to future generations for a look back on these changing times. Available all weekend at the Bloom merchandise booth.