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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
flashback: 6 September 2008 — a perfect afternoon in our garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, ferns, garden touring, grasses, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, gardening, our garden, plants, ponds, Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant' on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One afternoon in September I decided to give myself the tour experience within our own garden….to wander, to sit, to ponder and to observe. Looking back on the years in this garden I do wish I had found more time to sit, especially by the pond. I’m not sure I could have done anything different, [...]
flashback: vignettes, June-September 2008
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Basket Case, Cannon Beach Cottage Tour, deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Marilyn's garden, memorial gardens, our garden, plants, private gardens on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The garden we had created for Linda in memory of Rob Linderman had matured by June 2008 into a lovely haze of mostly blue, his favourite colour. Here it is on June 25th: From the deck of Linda’s beach house it’s an oasis of blue in a backdrop of beach grass and shorepines. To the [...]
flashback: 12 August 2008 — another garden open day
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged books, deer, garden touring, gardening, our garden, plants, reading on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Summer 2008 was indeed the year of glory for our garden. August 12th saw the Vancouver garden club on tour; every year, one of their members goes on the Peninsula garden tour and chooses a few favourites, then requests a tour for her group a month later. It did inspire me to keep the garden [...]
flashback: 8-8-08, 8-6-07 — planters and an update
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, hardscaping, lilies, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, tagged containers, gardening, hardscaping on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For a job that I quit a a year later because of the Big Revelation of June 2007, we created on a deck some container gardens that I simply adored all summer of 2008. We checked them often, deadheaded, groomed. It was my idea to have the flower containers guard the precious stained glass windows; [...]
Flashback: 2 August 2008 — Gearhart tour, favourite garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged garden sheds, garden touring, Gearhart garden tour, Gearhart Oregon, plants, private gardens on February 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Standing in the driveway we could glimpse a lovely garden… …but to the right we saw and could not resist this boardwalk. On one side a spur path ended mysteriously in beach grass; on the other, hostas were planted against the house. The boardwalk segued into a gravel path and as it came round the [...]
