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: Laurie’s garden in September 2009
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, perennials, plants, tagged gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, Willapa Bay on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The beauty continued, post-garden tour, in Laurie’s garden on the bay. How I love Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ in the fall: The pale yellow little sunflowers, and the dramatic height….which of course in Laurie’s Jurassic Garden grew even a little taller than anywhere else (thanks to a sprinkler system and manure from her five horses). Tasteful [...]
flashback: 2 – 10 August 2009 in our garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, lilies, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, lilies, our garden on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
August photo sessions in our garden: A Gallery Early August…..all was well. The garden tours for which we were responsible had been successes, and indeed, we had heard that my mother’s garden and Laurie’s had been among the (and maybe THE) favourites. Our garden still felt some of the lingering good effects from having been [...]
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: 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.
