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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘deer’
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 »
flashback: 2009 at Klipsan Beach Cottages, still our favourite job
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, lilies, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged bulbs, cats, deer, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, narcissi, plants, roses, tulips on March 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been helping with garden care at Klipsan Beach Cottages for many years and it’s still our favourite job for a number of reasons: Owner Mary loves and collects cool plants; her spouse Denny is droll and amusing; the budget includes soil amendments and some new plants each year; part of the garden is fenced away [...]
flashback: 2009 — Sea Nest and Casa Pacifica
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, perennials, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Casa Pacifica, deer, deer-resistant plants, dogs, gardening, ornamental grasses, private gardens, roses, Sea Nest on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The only reason these two gardens are sharing a post is that I took few pictures of them in 2009. Sea Nest, a wonderful place to stay on the Long Beach Peninsula, had changed owners and we were changing the garden to be more low maintenance. For some reason the deer don’t bother this garden, [...]
flashback: 2009 — 3 gardens in deer country
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, grasses, narcissi, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Andersen's RV Park, bulbs, deer, deer-resistant plants, Discovery Heights, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, ornamental grasses, plants, Wiegardt Gallery on March 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As well as Marilyn’s private garden, three of our public gardens have a particularly hard time with deer and we have to plant thoughtfully and sometimes with frustration as the taste buds of the deer seem to vary from season to season and even between neighbourhoods. Andersen’s RV Park The one place at Andersen‘s where [...]
flashback: 2009 — Marilyn’s garden, part two, the details
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, grasses, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Allium albopilosum, deer, gardening, Helianthus 'Lemon Queen, Marilyn's garden, ornamental grasses, Phygelius, plants, private gardens, Stipa gigantea on March 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Standing by the back porch looking north to the lawn, two views: June 18th and July 18th: Below: The back porch, June 18th and July 3rd. Marilyn’s mum recently told us that M. does not like or even quite approve of beer, and so hops might not have been the best choice of vine for [...]
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: 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: July-December 2008 — The Sea Garden project
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, perennials, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, maples, private gardens, roses, Sea Garden, secret gardens on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I had long admired a garden in Ocean Park known to to its owner Kathleen and her friends as Sea Garden. For various reasons it had somewhat gone back to the wild over the past couple of years and had been damaged by falling trees during the big blow of December 2007. In July of [...]
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: 12 August 2008 — another garden open day
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged books, deer, garden touring, gardening, our garden, plants, reading on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Summer 2008 was indeed the year of glory for our garden. August 12th saw the Vancouver garden club on tour; every year, one of their members goes on the Peninsula garden tour and chooses a few favourites, then requests a tour for her group a month later. It did inspire me to keep the garden [...]
