PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Garden Club has awarded its Summer Green Thumb award to Dick and Virginia Elder.
Their garden at 3017 Regent St. blooms with a variety of perennials including calla lilies, dahlias, crocosmia, love in the mist and shaggy daisies, the garden club said.
The landscape is dotted with blueberry bushes, smoke trees, astilbes and Russian sage. The vegetable garden includes zucchini, tomatoes and raspberries.
Volunteer sunflowers come up wherever the birds have dropped seeds.
In their garden, bordered on the back by Olympic National Park, they deter deer with motion-activated sprinklers.
“They began eight years ago with a clean slate and have been evolving ever since with nothing particular in mind but have developed a lovely yard with a meandering pathway and plenty to look at,” the garden club said.
