We have been in the midst of annuals planting hell. Planting is my least favourite gardening task; I like setting the plants out but not so much putting them in the soil. Perhaps this is because we plant with obsessive attention to detail, putting water and a mix of Zeba Quench and Dr Earth fertilizer [...]
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a day “overseas” and a new nursery
Posted in annuals, ferns, grasses, journal, nurseries, perennials, plants, tagged Back Alley Gardens, Basket Case Greenouse, gardening, nurseries, plant shopping, plants on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: early spring 2010-12 — Cistus Nursery
Posted in 2010 garden journal flashbacks, 2011 garden journal flashbacks, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Cistus Nursery, Echium candicans 'Star of Madeira', garden touring, gardening, plants, Pseuodpanax ferox on April 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
On our yearly early spring plant buying road trip we always go to Joy Creek first, then on to Cistus on Sauvie Island. The first time I went to Cistus I recognized only a small proportion of the plants on offer. Here is a true collectors’ nursery. I have heard that Dan Hinkley shops at [...]
flashback: early spring 2010-12 – Joy Creek Nursery
Posted in 2010 garden journal flashbacks, 2011 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged ceramic birdbaths, ceramic birdhouses, garden touring, gardens, gravel in the garden, Joy Creek Nursery, plants on April 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I love our yearly trip to Joy Creek and its neighbour down the road, Cistus Nursery. Because if you are still slogging through all these garden tours, you are probably also a plant nut, here are scenes from three years of spring shopping trips. I do remember one glorious year that I was there more [...]
flashback: 13 June 2009 — Joy Creek Nursery
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, nurseries, plants, public gardens, tagged garden touring, gardening, Joy Creek, nurseries, plants on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We did make it back to Joy Creek Nursery in Scappoose before closing time. I think they must have stayed open late to accommodate tour-goers. Not for us the close parking area by the plant sales area. The place was buzzing with shoppers so we parked in the overflow lot and walked down the road [...]
flashback: — 13 June, 2009: Cistus Nursery display gardens
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, grasses, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Cistus Nursery, garden touring, gardening, nurseries, plants, water features on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On June 13th we went to a garden tour on Sauvie Island (next post) and of course took the opportunity to shop at Cistus for more last minute plants for my mother’s open garden day. The display gardens were in fine form.
flashback: 4 May 2009 — Joy Creek and Cistus nurseries
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, nurseries, plants, public gardens, tagged Cistus, garden touring, gardening, Joy Creek, limbing up rhododendrons, nurseries, plants on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Always in the first week of May we try to go to Cistus and Joy Creek Nurseries (Sauvie Island and Scappoose, Oregon). The four hour round trip is well worth making to acquire the coolest of plants, especially when driven by the prospect of my mother’s garden being on the garden tour six weeks later. [...]
flashback: 19 June 2008 — Dancing Oaks Nursery
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, Dancing Oaks, garden touring, Hardy Plant Society study weekend, magnolia, nurseries, water features on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
At last, on the day before study weekend, I visited Dancing Oaks. I had been hearing and reading of this nursery for years. No one could have been a better companion for this excursion than my friend and sister horthead Sheila. I forgot to photograph a couple of the features that stuck in my mind. [...]
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, [...]
flashback: April 2008 — horses and deer
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, nurseries, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, deer, Discovery Heights, gardening, horses, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, plants, springtime, tulips, volunteering on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Springtime weather returned during the first week of April. All the creatures rejoiced in it. Laurie’s garden remained one of our favourites. Her horse herd had grown and now included golden Moony, the Peruvian Pasos Pinta and Elé, grey Kachina (not pictured above) and the newest, the miniature Dewey, rescued from dire circumstances, nurtured back [...]
flashback: 4 August 2007 — a quest fulfilled
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, nurseries, plants, trees and shrubs, tagged Dichroa febrifuga, Duffy's Irish Pub, Evergreen Terrace Nursery, garden touring, Skamokawa on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I confess: This is actually written on August 12th, because work has been all-consuming, and during days off I have been obsessed with a big pruning project at home. This isn’t the most suspenseful way of telling the tale, but on the morning of Saturday, August 4th, I read an article by Dan Hinkley in [...]
