Name: Welch Sanctuary    Alternate Name:   Address:   Mailing Address:   City: Woodinville  State: Washington  Postal Code:   Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=47.754436; long=-122.161949 Find Gardens Nearby Phone:   Fax:   E-Mail:   Contact:   Designer(s): Terry Welch  Admission: private residence  Added to JGarden: 1/10/2004  Last Updated: 10/17/2004  Sources:   JGarden Description: This 24-acre private property is both a wildlife refuge, an acclaimed garden and a 2000 sq. ft post-and-beam house located north of Redmond and Bellevue, Washington. The site includes a suspended wetland constructed by beavers. The current owner, Terry Welch, has managed to integrate English and Japanese garden traditions into a natural Pacific Northwest landscape. The site includes several beautiful outlooks, a network of paths. The site can be reached via a long gravel drive to and entry gate. The home looks out from a hillside onto the wetland and includes a wrap-around deck, koi pond and walled garden. Richard Hartlage, director of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, Washington. "Garden Sanctuary for the Children of the Moon", Pacific Horticulture, Summer 1999, pp. 32-39.

Aoyama Cemetary Not the snows of Fuji Nor the auspicious plume     Of the white heron Nor the sea-foam of Atami     Is so white As the cherries of Aoyama:     Letting fall The freshness of evanescence     On the carved stones of the dead.   John M. Steadman   20th Century