Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden

Entry Gate by Iron Idiom

HSBG's Entry Gate was created by "Iron Idiom", a custom art steel firm owned by husband and wife team Steve Hussey and Sherry Glenn.

To contact Iron Idiom, phone 360-352-2072 or email.

The following article appeared in the Fall 2002 edition of HBGF's newsletter

Entry Gate Welcomes Visitors
by Doug Osterman

Three generations of steel workers install the gate.

A beautiful new iron gate welcomes visitors to the Highline Botanical Garden. Sherry Glenn and Steve Hussey of Iron Idiom designed, built, and installed the gate in time for the August 2002 Grand Opening.

Sherry grew up in the Highline community about a mile and a half from the HBG. She graduated from Glacier High School in 1957, its last graduating class before closing. Sherry loved her childhood and has fond memories of the Highline community to this day. She desired to give something back to the community to commemorate the good memories.

Sherry happened by the Botanical Garden's website one day and e-mailed us about donating an iron birdbath. Our esteemed Garden Manager, Greg Butler, offered her a tour when the notion of a birdbath escalated into a grander scheme of our new magnificent entry gate, and soon, pergola. Steve said, "We wanted the opportunity to figure out what we could do to help the Garden." That opportunity led to countless hours of design time by Sherry who, working with Steve, was able to take the ideas of the HBG Design Committee and transform them into our entry gate that will be enjoyed by our community for years to come.Steve took Sherry's design and built the gate using his 24 foot by forty foot propane-powered steel cutter which uses an electronic eye to follow a template. He then installed the gate for us. He and Sherry are working on the pergola that will shroud the entry into the garden. Indeed, they are teaming up with other metal fabricator businesses on the pergola--again, an affirmation that it takes a team, a community, to make the Garden a reality.

Some facts about the gate: Each wing weighs about 200 pounds; the steel came from mills in Utah and Canada; and the gate traveled to a couple of art fairs before its installation. At the Bellevue Art Fair the gate was priced at $1,600. Steve and his son founded the art crafting business of "Iron Idiom". They also own Burning Specialties, an industrial business located in Georgetown since July 3, 1984.

To contact Iron Idiom, phone 360-352-2072 or email.

Other Garden Art by Iron Idiom

Steel Bird Bath

Entry Arbor