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: 15 & 25 July 2009: more of me mum’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, tagged aging, cosmos, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), Mom's Garden, roses on March 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I did say that is was the summer of my mother’s garden. Over the month of July it got better and better as more lilies, annuals, and roses came into full bloom. Gardens are ephemeral and bound up with the fate of the gardener. This summer of beauty was the peak of this garden’s existence. [...]
flashback: 19 July 2009: Astoria garden tour part one: Warrenton
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, tagged Astoria garden tour, garden touring, gardening, lilies, poppies, purple and orange, Warrenton Oregon on March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In July, Allan and I went on the Astoria garden tour. Most of the gardens were public ones, two or three being rather small community veg patches. Give me secret gardens, please! Yet even the long drives to little veg patches provided some interest, because one was in a low income housing neighbourhood…and there [...]
flashback: 8 July 2009 — mom’s 2nd garden open day
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, Clematis, garden touring, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), mom' garden, roses on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
On July 8th, the Vancouver (Washington) garden club returned in the morning to tour mom’s garden. Early rain had us worried but had almost stopped by the time the group arrived, and overcast weather does make for better garden photos. Mom made brownies and iced tea and decorated the table with some of her African [...]
flashback: 5 July 2009 — the summer of my mother’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged fairy chairs, garden touring, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), Mom's Garden, plants, private gardens on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the fifth of July we spent a day grooming mom’s garden for her second garden open day. From the parking area on the east side of the house, you might not have guessed that a big bright sunny garden awaited. By her car port, a blue geranium rambled through a cutleaf elderberry. Almost all [...]
flashback: 27 June 2009 — Laurie’s garden open
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, ferns, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, lilies, Long Beach Peninsula garden tour, Music in the Gardens tour, private gardens, Willapa Bay on March 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Two gardens on tour on the same day: What a dilemma. I wanted to experience the whole day in each of them, but on the Music in the Gardens tour day I started at my mother’s garden, made a dash with tour organizer Patti to Laurie’s at mid-day, and then returned to my mother’s. As [...]
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: 2009, May and June in our garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, narcissi, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged bulbs, Cosmos 'Double Click', deer, double-file viburnum, gardening, Himalayan blue poppy, hostas, Ilwaco, Meconopsis betonicifolia, narcissi, our garden, Persicaria bistorta 'Superba', plants, private gardens, roses on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our 2009 garden continued to benefit from having been on the 2008 tour…holding some of its form and cleanliness with minor amounts of work (and a good thing, too, with trying to get two other gardens ready for the 2009 tour). Although we were endlessly busy I managed a few go-rounds with the camera. I [...]
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 »
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 [...]
flashback: 2009 — The Long Beach Planters, April – October
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, finger blight, grasses, narcissi, plants, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, Cosmos 'Sonata', deer-resistant plants, finger blight, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, painted sage, planters, plants, tulips on March 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the long awaited slideshow of the Long Beach Planters, 2009 (including, in May, a few shots of the street tree plantings whose footprint is just the same as the raised planters). Our conquest, er, acquistion, take-over? let’s say improvements of the LB planters had continued until now almost all of them were in our [...]
