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 [...]
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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 »
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: 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 »
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 [...]
flashback: 12 August 2009 — taking on Crank’s Roost
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Crank's Roost, gardening, private gardens, Seaview Washington, Terence O'Donnell on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I’d had my eye on a certain garden in Seaview for years at a house named Crank’s Roost, the former beach home of author Terence O’Donnell. (His book Cannon Beach: A Place by the Sea captures the history and feel of nearby Cannon Beach, Oregon.) In 2008 we almost got the job but we were so [...]
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: 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 [...]
