Pacific Northwest Gardening: Laurie's Garden Tour, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
Still standing at the Loggia - this is the far end of the damp bed - this is kept moist by using the rain water off the barn. We pipe if from the rain barrels, under the bed that surrounds the loggia and then into this bed - works fairly well. We have had a few problems in the really dry periods, and have had to rely on emptying the barrels rather than just the overflow. But that is why we have two wacking great barrels.

This was fairly early in spring - you can see the bed that borders the outside of the moraine walk and the begining of the path that moves back up towards the barn

Gwen, the loggia is built onto the lower end of the barn - we have no idea of what its original purpose was.