Our favourite local restaurant and one that gets all the top star ratings is The Depot Restaurant in Seaview, Washington, and we are honoured to work on their small garden. The Depot building was indeed a depot for the Clamshell Railroad. The Depot gardens consist of the front door container plantings, a garden bed on [...]
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flashback: 2009 — restaurant gardening: the sublime Depot
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, grasses, perennials, plants, public gardens, tagged Basket Case, clamshell railroad, Depot Restaurant, dining, English Nursery, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, nurseries, ornamental grasses, planters, plants, restaurants, Seaview Washington on March 2, 2012 | 3 Comments »
flashback: October-December 2008 — two one-time jobs
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, hardscaping, narcissi, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, deer, dogs, garden design, gardening, hardscaping, hydrangeas, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, plants, private gardens, Sea Nest on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One time jobs….One-off jobs….Occasionally we take them on although I much prefer gardens in which we’re involved in the ongoing process. In mid October we took on a big weeding job just as one drives into Ilwaco from the east. Health reasons had caused the owner to let her garden go dormant and she needed [...]
flashback: vignettes, June-September 2008
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Basket Case, Cannon Beach Cottage Tour, deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Marilyn's garden, memorial gardens, our garden, plants, private gardens on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The garden we had created for Linda in memory of Rob Linderman had matured by June 2008 into a lovely haze of mostly blue, his favourite colour. Here it is on June 25th: From the deck of Linda’s beach house it’s an oasis of blue in a backdrop of beach grass and shorepines. To 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: March 2008 — from spring to winter
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, ferns, gardening, Ilwaco, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, Mom's Garden, narcissi, our garden, Phormiums, snow, springtime, weather on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The gardening tasks repeat from year to year. I’d think no one would want to read the same story over and over, yet as a gardener I find it endlessly fascinating to watch the cycles repeat on Moosey’s Country Garden. The hydrangea job slowed the beginning of our rounds of spring clean up. At last, [...]
flashback: 14 June 2007 — from Ilwaco to Oysterville
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged Basket Case, gardening, Oysterville, Oysterville Sea Farms, Seaview, Washington on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Ilwaco to Oysterville: We can say that now because we had a new job in Oysterville…not regularly, but occasionally. I haven’t worked in Oysterville since a half day weeding job in 1993. It’s a magical town which used to be “The San Francisco of the North” and is now a peaceful enclave of houses, [...]
flashback: 14 & 15 May 2007 — annual frenzy and a revelation
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, nurseries, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged annuals, Basket Case, gardening, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Planter Box, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since annual planting time began three days ago, I have continued to have a growing revelation: it is not good to be too busy. I actually said no to a job: digging up some large shrubs for a valued client. I suggested she find someone with more youthful vigor. It’s not that we can’t work [...]
flashback: 5 May 2007: playing in the KBC garden
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tulips, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, ferns, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, springtime on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday night when we stopped at mom’s to bring in firewood, I snagged a few more volunteer seedlings of Verbascum olympicum from her vegetable garden…the one with white woolly leaves and a tower of yellow…to take to Marilyn’s, a garden which lacks them and simply must have them. So today that transplanting job was number [...]
flashback: 29 April – 1 May 2007 — three long and busy days
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Basket Case, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, Wiegardt Gallery on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We ranged up and down the Peninsula for three days trying to accomplish all necessary jobs in order to leave the end of the week free for a huge sweep of the Long Beach gardens. This is the time that because of a Long Beach event (more on this later), work goes for many long [...]
flashback: 9 February, 2007: primroses and good dogs
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, finger blight, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged Basket Case, bulbs, dogs, finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach (Washington), planters on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our first stop today was the Basket Case Greenhouse where rows of perky primroses were lined out for sale. They may be trite to some but a greenhouse bench full of their happy colours is fine with me, and would have made a wonderful spring vibrancy photo if I had thought to get the camera [...]
