After a six week staycation, one of our first jobs of 2012 was to wake up the 5th Street Park in Long Beach today. We were tired of the winter structure of the Sedum autumn joy and so eager to make room to display oncoming spring bulbs. After, so satisfying, with a few early crocus [...]
Archive for the ‘spring clean up’ Category
February 2012 in Long Beach: waking up the fifth street park
Posted in journal, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, roses, sweet peas on April 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
flashback: 2009 — Marilyn’s garden, part one, through the seasons
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, fall clean up, grasses, narcissi, perennials, plants, private gardens, spring clean up, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, private gardens on March 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A slideshow (and you know I love one) is the ideal showcase for Marilyn’s garden north of Ocean Park, as the perennials, grasses, and annuals rise up to meet their yearly challenge of hiding the neighbours’ garage window. (We leave some of the grasses up all winter and cut them back in early March.) The [...]
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: 11 June 2007 — a lovely day off (and a book)
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, journal, our garden, plants, private gardens, spring clean up, tagged books, gardening, our garden, reading, tiny houses on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night I realized ,after working quite late again planting the unadopted street planters in Long Beach and trying, but failing, to get the Boreas done before its owner returned from vacation (Sorry. Susie! We almost made it!), that I must have today off. Areas of our garden were disappearing into weeds and every work [...]
flashback: 13 April 2007–while waiting for repairs
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, narcissi, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged Andersen's RV Park, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, springtime, tulips, windowboxes on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday the 13th: a wonky trailer throws a wrench into the workday One of the wheels of our utility trailer went wonky….No surprise because as Allan pointed out, that same little trailer brought his worldly goods down from Tacoma, and since then has hauled around heavy loads of mulch, river rock, and weeds for two [...]
flashback: 8 April 2007–How many Ilwacoans does it take to plant a tree?
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, Ilwaco Harbour Village, Long Beach Peninsula, volunteering, weather on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Does it always rain on volunteer days? Two years ago we planted ten street trees (a columnar ornamental pear called ‘Cleveland Select’) with a group of volunteers. Last summer two trees were broken off at the base by evil vandals, and we have now planted eleven more. The first planting day was accompanied by driving [...]
flashback: 6 April 2007–in which some work is described
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, spring clean up, springtime on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Contrary to the impression perhaps given by the previous entry, life is not all fluttering around the flowers but does involve lots of digging and pruning at this time of year. This week we took on a one time clean up at a house for sale by the golf course in Surfside An old camellia [...]
flashback: 4 April 2007–our tulip and narcissi festival
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, plants, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tulips, tagged gardening, Jo's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Marilyn's garden, narcissi, springtime, tulips on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For the past week of work have been marvelling at the gorgeous bulbs everywhere. I have utmost faith as I plant fall bulbs because they are so dependable. Back at R___’s memorial garden, the narcissi glowed in the sunset: The miniature narcissi form delicate clumps and have more character than the larger ones. [2012 note: [...]
flashback: 1 April 2007: 7 days, 18 garden (visits), part 4
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tulips, tagged Berberis 'Pow Wow', Discovery Heights, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, plants on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I suppose ’twas not really eighteen gardens in seven days because some of them are repeating visits. But Saturday we got around to a thorough weeding of the street planters and trees in Ilwaco, replacing some old woody Erysimum ‘Bowles’ Mauve’ with new fresh ones, tweaking out the chickweed and tiny grasses and deadheading any [...]
flashback: 1 April 2007–7 days, 18 gardens, part 3
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tulips, tagged Andersen's RV Park, bulbs, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, tulips on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Thursday, we were feeling some hope of catching up if the weather held. After mulching Ted’s boxwoods and planting a few buckets of free plants at Marilyn’s, we ended the day with a long session at our favourite job, Klipsan Beach Cottages. The window boxes at the cottages are looking fabulous! Throughout the garden [...]
