Occasionally we take on a job so small that only a few photos result…..Or we permanently care for a little pocket of a garden that we fail to photograph very often…..or changes to a big job make it into a small job. In 2009, a job which had been one of our bigger ones became [...]
Archive for February, 2012
flashback: April-September 2009 — Oman Builders Supply entry garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, lilies, perennials, plants, tulips, tagged California poppies, Eschscholzia californica, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Ocean Park Washington, Oman & Son Builders Supply on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2009 was the second year that we planted and cared for a small entry garden at Oman & Son Builders Supply‘s Ocean Park Store. We were pleased with the way the seasons unfolded and with the massive amount of colour we managed to pack into a small area. It’s a tiny job that we check [...]
Flashback: 2009 — The Year in Cheri’s Garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged cats, Cheri's garden, Discovery Coast Real Estate, dogs, Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, private gardens, rhododendrons, tulips on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cheri’s garden in Ilwaco was created and planted up by Cheri and Charlie; all we have done is enhance it with our favourite plants. According to my photo records, we have been helping to care for the garden since at least 2007. Our first wake-up call to the garden on March 9th, 2009, found crocus [...]
flashback: February- April 2009 vignettes
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Annie's garden, cats, gardening, horses, hydrangeas, Ilwaco our garden, Long Beach Peninsula, Northwest Flower and Garden Show, trees, volunteer gardening on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“More of my new plants: a gold leafed and a black leafed phygelius, and a gold leafed and dark leafed Hellebore foetidus were among my haul. And at the show I finally acquired Omphalodes ‘Starry Eyes’. It was too hard to haul plants from the show on the city bus….so did not buy many there. [...]
Flashback: February 2009 — the garden show
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, public gardens, tagged Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Pike Place Market on February 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Here begins a whole year of flashbacks about 2009, another important year in our lives as gardeners. My mother’s garden and our dear client Laurie’s garden were each on the Peninsula garden tour. While I skipped the Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend (because it took place in Canada, too time-consuming and expensive a trip), we [...]
flashback: 19 December 2008 — snow in our garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Ilwaco, our garden, snow, winter on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Snow is an unusual event here at the beach and one that has us out with our cameras recording every snow flake and drift. On December 19th, Ilwaco and our garden were transformed. Allan and I each walked around and around the garden taking photos from every angle while the huge falling snowflakes obliterated our [...]
flashback: autumn 2008 — horses at work
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, tagged horses, Joanne's Garden, Laurie's garden on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We carry some apples, carrots, or at the very least a container of healthy horse treats from the feed store for our equine friends at work. Kat and Moony were the friendliest of the five horses at Laurie’s garden. (11/19/08) Miniature horse Dewey was not so friendly, so we tossed him his treats from a [...]
flashback: October-December 2008 — two one-time jobs
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, hardscaping, narcissi, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, deer, dogs, garden design, gardening, hardscaping, hydrangeas, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, plants, private gardens, Sea Nest on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One time jobs….One-off jobs….Occasionally we take them on although I much prefer gardens in which we’re involved in the ongoing process. In mid October we took on a big weeding job just as one drives into Ilwaco from the east. Health reasons had caused the owner to let her garden go dormant and she needed [...]
flashback: 3-5 October 2008 — Sylvia Beach trip
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, tagged books, Brewin' in the Wind, Cape Meares, Oceanside, reading, room journals, Sylvia Beach Hotel on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My friend Carol and I had planned a trip to Sylvia Beach Hotel and then her new job intervened so Allan and I went instead. He’d never been. I wasn’t sure how he’d take to “the game” (Two Truths and a Lie) played at dinner but he did well with three stories: his mother in [...]
Flashback: July-December 2008 — The Sea Garden project
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, perennials, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, maples, private gardens, roses, Sea Garden, secret gardens on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I had long admired a garden in Ocean Park known to to its owner Kathleen and her friends as Sea Garden. For various reasons it had somewhat gone back to the wild over the past couple of years and had been damaged by falling trees during the big blow of December 2007. In July of [...]
