My love of plant tables was inspired by George Schenk’s book Gardening on Pavement, Tables and Hard Surfaces and by this photo of his wondrous table of ferns. I include among the ideas inspired by Mr Schenk the planting up of chairs and old trunks as well. Above, an old wooden table with some soil [...]
Archive for January, 2012
plant tables etc
Posted in our garden, plants, tagged Basket Case, bulbs, garden touring, gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, plant tables, planters, plants on January 29, 2012 | 5 Comments »
the year in flowers
Posted in journal, lilies, narcissi, our garden, plants, private gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, gardening, lilies, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, plants, tulips on January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
2011 in our new garden… I do love a slideshow. There is such a gap between tulip time and the flowers of early July. 2011′s tulips were extraordinarily late, and my new baby plants of other sorts were late to flower. I lacked roses because we did not yet have our deer fence. 2012′s new [...]
our new garden, the first year
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A sunny garden…What a change from the old Tangly Cottage garden with its boggy, shady, cloud forest environment. I wanted meadowlike sweeps of flowers in the new garden. (Why do we always think of a meadow full of flowers, of all things!?) As always, I wondered how long before the beds filled in! The big [...]
looking back on 2011: private gardens
Posted in 2011 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged our garden, private gardens on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For the last several years, I resolved to work a bit less in order to spend time in our own garden…with visions of barbecues, actually sitting in the garden chairs, maybe a garden party…and then interesting work intervenes. For the past three years, we have begun in February with a one-off, week long pruning of [...]
looking back on 2011: public gardens
Posted in container gardens, garden touring, history, public gardens, tagged Anchorage Cottages, Andersen's RV Park, Golden Sands Assisted Living, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, Phormiums, planters, Time Enough Books on January 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
(as one does) As usual, our favourite job was Klipsan Beach Cottages. Not only are we given pretty much a free rein in terms of what plants to add, but there is a large fenced in area where we can plant roses and fuchsias and lilies and tulips and not have to worry about the [...]
