I wasn’t focused on blogging in 2009. Two of “our” gardens were going to be on the Peninsula garden tour and they conusmed my thoughts. I had not found a blogging plaform that I liked. So my photos of the parks do not tell a seasonal story, just vignettes of each. We take care [...]
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flashback: 2009 — The Long Beach Parks, April through October
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, fall clean up, grasses, lilies, narcissi, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, tulips, tagged bulbs, cosmos, deer-resistant plants, gardening, hydrangeas, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, ornamental grasses, plants, ponds, roses, Salvia viridis, Super Dorothy rose, tulips on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 2009 — Marilyn’s garden, part one, through the seasons
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, fall clean up, grasses, narcissi, perennials, plants, private gardens, spring clean up, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, private gardens on March 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A slideshow (and you know I love one) is the ideal showcase for Marilyn’s garden north of Ocean Park, as the perennials, grasses, and annuals rise up to meet their yearly challenge of hiding the neighbours’ garage window. (We leave some of the grasses up all winter and cut them back in early March.) The [...]
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: 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: 17 December 2007 — winding down
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged fall clean up, gardening, Laurie's garden, roses, Time Enough Books, winter, winter flowers on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
and thus work ends for the year… The mild weather kept work going for a long time. Lack of frost meant cosmos kept blooming into late November. Finally we had to pull them, still slightly blooming, out of the old boat at Time Enough Books at the Port of Ilwaco in order to plant the [...]
flashback: 12 December 2007 — a storm known as The Monster
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged December 7th storm, hurricane, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, KMUN, Laurie's garden, Sea Nest, storm, weather, Willapa Bay on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Finally the storm came, and all the skeptics must have been sorry that they did not stock up ahead of time. It lasted three long days of winds up to 140 up in the hills and 85 mph whipping through the towns. Downtown Astoria’s businesses lost windows, sucked out by the vacuum of the wind, [...]
flashback: 25 October 2007 — sights while bulbing
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged bulbs, deer, deer-resistant plants, fall clean up, gardening, narcissi, tulips, Willapa Bay on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bulbing goes on, and between the exhaustion of it all and the problems I was having uploading to this site, the blog fell by the wayside. [2012 note: The problems were in uploading to web.mac.com, the iWeb blog hosting site which will be discontinued in June 2012, thus inspiring me to move all of 2007 [...]
flashback: 15 October 2007 — the two fall clean-up philosophies
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Ann Lovejoy, cats, dairy manure, dogs, fall clean up, gardening, horses, Jo's garden, Laurie's garden on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An aside: the new horse at Laurie’s is in its own corral because one of the other horses took a dislike to it. We have three cats, one of whom hates the other two, but it is a lot easier to manage three incompatible cats than three incompatible horses! The cats find their own private [...]
flashback: 10 October 2007 — autumn clean up begins
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Descaisnea fargesii, fall clean up, fruits and berries, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, roses on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the Pacific Northwest the gardens usually stay beautiful and lush till well into November, but the look changes to bronzy and yellow leaves, billowy beige grasses, and bright fruits on Cotoneaster, crabapple, beautyberry, and more. We try to get a little bit of fall clean up done before the bulbs arrive.
flashback: 7 October 2007 — volunteer gardening
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, tagged gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Rebuilding Together, volunteer gardening, volunteering on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rebuilding Together on the Long Beach Peninsula Rebuilding Together‘s fairly new Pacific County group had its second 2007 volunteer day in Saturday’s rain. Allan and I went to a project where nine excellently warm windows were to be installed in a double wide manufactured home. The owner had once had a pretty garden which several of [...]
