At the darling Seaview cottage called Crank’s Roost, we managed to work one day in September at the project of creating paths through the south woodsy lot. The established gardens inside the front gate and to the east of the house always filled our eyes with pleasant details as we sorted out picks, rakes, prybars [...]
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flashback: September-December 2009 and onward at Crank’s Roost
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged bog gardens, Crank's Roost, gardening, hardscaping, private gardens, trees on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 19 July 2009 — Astoria tour, a west slope garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, tagged Astoria garden tour, dry creek beds, garden touring, gardening, hardscaping, planting on a hillside, terraces on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the west slope of Astoria’s long tall hill (I just realized Astoria seems to be a town of one big hill rather than Seattle’s several hills), a private garden took a different approach to dealing with a steep slope than had the formally terraced Warrenton garden. The lower slope’s dry creek bed culminated in [...]
flashback: 13 June 2009 — Sauvie Island garden tour, garden six
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, tagged boxwood, garden touring, gardening, gravel garden, hardscaping, Ilex 'Sky Pencil', Maurice Horn, meadow paths, meadows, scree, verticality on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
While the beehives near the parking area for garden six were interesting, I was more pleased to see a sanican. A note that I made on my Facebook album of this tour: One restroom option is NOT enough for ten gardens. This says to me there might have been ten, rather than seven, gardens on [...]
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: 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 garden tour, 3 gardens
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, tagged containers, garden touring, Gearhart Oregon, hardscaping, patio, private gardens, seating on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
At the beginning of August, I was fortunate to read a small notice in Coast Weekend that a street of gardens in Gearhart was to be open to the public. Allan and I had considerable trouble finding it, ending up a few extra miles south in Seaside at first, but it proved to be well [...]
22 June 2008, touring gardens near Eugene
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, gardening, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, private gardens, water, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Study Weekend Touring, hosted by Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group Feeling the anxiety of getting all the tour gardens properly seen before the end of the day we next drove to a hillside garden. A lion’s face greeted us as we entered. I think that this is the garden and creation of Byan Lauber. The [...]
flashback: 22 June 2008 — touring a woodland garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, hardscaping, perennials, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, plants, private gardens, shade gardening, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Study Weekend Touring, hosted by Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group After a Saturday filled with lectures, Sheila and I spent Sunday touring more Eugene gardens. The first was a huge lot behind this house: An entry patio to the right of the above had different types of small stones set into a grid. Beyond is [...]
flashback: 20 June 2008 — garden touring in Eugene, day one
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Eugene Oregon, garden touring, gardening, hardscaping, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, private gardens, Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group on February 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
study weekend touring, hosted by the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group The wonderful study weekend featured Dubliner Helen Dillon as the keynote speaker and tours of many Eugene gardens. Sheila and I noticed while garden touring on Friday that too many of the first few gardens had the same feeling about them, as if the same [...]
flashback: May through mid-June 2008 — preparing for a garden tour
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, hardscaping, nurseries, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Cistus Nursery, garden touring, gardening, Joy Creek Nursery, Long Beach (Washington), nurseries, our garden on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In spring of 2008 we agreed to let our garden be on the Peninsula garden tour. I had long resisted, never feeling ready, but finally our friend Patti, tour organizer, said to me “You know you are going to do it eventually, so why not get it over with?” As soon as I had committed, [...]
