NOTE: We are a working farm, not a regular nursery or a public garden. There is a portable toilet next to our barn for your convenience, but we do not have potted lilies or a gift shop and cannot custom dig daylilies while you are here. We will give you a catalog and can take orders that you may pick up later this fall. Daylilies are ready in September for pickup or mailing, but Lily bulb orders are not completed until mid to late October, after the bulbs have matured, and the tops died back. We are not normally set up to receive guests. Work is ongoing throughout the summer and our insurance company says visitors may not be present while equipment is being used. We are also waiting on a permit from fisheries to continue bank restoration work on our section of Snow Creek. Due to the sensitive nature of salmon spawning timetables, when our Hydraulic Project is renewed, there is only a short time to repair the damage from last winter's storms in which to work and no visits will be possible once stream works begin. Fisheries plans to move in “large woody debris “ (logs) requiring the use of an excavator. Summer of 2008 will mark the beginning or a total restoration of our display gardens including the removal of a dozen or so antique horse drawn implements as well as all of the bulbs and plants surrounding them. Based on past experience this renovation will probably also require the summer of 2009 to complete. Click on ‘Antique Garden Art’ for more information concerning this project. Please call or email if you are going to be in the area and we will try to accommodate you during the renovation project. FARM DIRECTIONS: From Interstate-5 (north of Seattle) exit westbound onto SR 104 (Edmonds-Mountlake Terrace exit) to the Edmonds-Kingston Ferry. After ferry ride across Puget Sound, remain on SR 104, crossing the Hood Canal Floating Bridge. Stay on SR 104 until it merges into Highway 101 Northbound. Do not take either of the "Port Townsend" exits. Our farm is 1000 feet north of the HWY 101 and HWY 104 interchange, on the left side. For privacy, there are no highway signs identifying us. Our fence is painted dark blue with bright pink & yellow caps for accent. We have an antique road grader in the landscaping next to the creek and daylilies planted around a centuries-old cedar stump in the parking area. If traffic is coming fast behind you, avoid turning into the driveway while heading north, as there is no left turn lane and we do not wish for you to be rear-ended. For your safety, you may continue two miles further, turning around at Discovery Bay, to come back and exit safely off Highway 101 from the southbound lane. Drive through the double gates and park in the grassy area next to Highway 101. Lock your car and walk across our private bridge that spans Snow Creek. RESTRICTIONS: 1. Only working guide dogs are permitted on the farm side of the creek, family pets must be secured in your car, which includes small pets that are carried. Our parking area has shade and an un-mowed area at the south end for doggy relief, but the best plan is to simply leave pets at home. 2. Do NOT pick flowers, not even a single bloom to “ask” what it is! Some of these might still need to be photographed or are seedlings under trial. 3. Smokers MUST refrain from using tobacco products due to the possibility of Tobacco Mosaic Virus being spread to our propagation and display stock. Even your hands can transmit the virus while smoking or using tobacco. 5. Please keep children with you and do not allow climbing on our equipment or antique farm machinery. Note that irrigation water is pumped from a very healthy pond and is not drinkable, so children should not play in sprinklers. 6. Our shared driveway is a fire lane, please park in either the grassy area by the creek or drive over the bridge, through the gate, going left around the dark blue building. There is only limited parking in this area, keep your car on the gravel. 7. Our neighbors own the farm animals and they ask that you please do not feed or put hands into their pens. (All have teeth and know how to use them.) Please do not put us in the uncomfortable position of asking you to leave, we enjoy sharing our garden, but a few past visitors have made these reminders necessary. |
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