Back from our nursery visits and garden touring, we spent two and half weeks trying to keep up with our regular clients while getting both Mom’s and Laurie’s gardens perfect for the upcoming Peninsula Garden Tour. During the rushed and busy time we saw… …a snake sunning itself on top of an azalea in Jo’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Discovery Heights’
flashback: mid-June 2009 — interval between tours
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Clematis, Clematis 'Blue Light', Clematis 'Josephine', Discovery Heights, garden touring, gardening, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, Mom's Garden, Music in the Gardens tour on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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: 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-16 June 2007 — the rest of the week
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, public gardens, tagged dianthus, Discovery Heights, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), plants, Wiegardt Gallery on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We rushed about from job to job all week, spending as much time as possible (not enough) weeding the Long Beach beach approach garden because of an event (The Beach to Chowder Run) that would draw many pedestrians. I think perhaps the most tiring time of gardening is done. We have almost all of the [...]
Flashback: 10 June, 2007 — Friday’s circuit of the Peninsula
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Discovery Heights, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, plants, Sea Nest, weather on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new plan for writing: If one wrote a brief bit every night, one might still just have vignettes but at least not a week’s worth piled into one day. When the days are light till after nine, the dedicated gardener is lured into working until dusk, leaving piles of The Oregonian and The Astorian [...]
flashback: 30 May – 1 June 2007 — 3 days of vignettes
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Discovery Heights, Eryngium 'Sapphire Blue', gardening, Joanne's Garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, plants, Rose 'Polka' on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Through an enormous push to get the weekend off (Well, Sunday: Saturday is needed for plant shopping), we worked hard at almost every job to bring them to a moment of completion. Sometimes its hard to appreciate the beauty when focused so much on accomplishing tasks, but these are the garden scenes that caught my [...]
flashback: 28 May 2007 — a week in gardening, part two
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged deer, Discovery Heights, gardening, Mom's Garden on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, we got to plant up one of the damaged areas at the Shelburne Inn, from back in April when a truck drove into it! Although the new fence is not yet painted, I felt the annuals MUST go in now, so we added a mix of topsoil, Gardener and Bloom soil building compost, and [...]
flashback: 20 May 2007 — progress report on annuals
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, cats, Discovery Heights, gardening, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, nurseries, plants, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Now that I have the finger blight rant out of my system, here’s an update on planting of annuals: We spent the last several days continuing the rather frenzied planting of cosmos ‘Seashells’, ‘Double Click’ and ‘Sensation’ mixes and painted sage, intermixed with the occasional godetia and perennial. (I just learned that the common name [...]
flashback: 26 April 2007 — Discovery Heights>Jo>Discovery Heights
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, tagged deer-resistant plants, Discovery Heights, gardening, Jo's garden, plants on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today we bracketed Jo’s garden with a morning and afternoon visit to Discovery Heights. Perhaps because I am not good at taking breaks while working, an enforced break whilst riding between jobs helps reduce the end of day soreness, and Jo had called with a special request that we help plant her geraniums. Of course, [...]
flashback: 9 April 2007: no time yet for my garden
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, journal, narcissi, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Discovery Heights, gardening, Ilwaco, Jo's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, plants on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not once did I get out to the garden yesterday…a maddening torrential rain and a gale so fierce that it knocked Ilwaco’s power out for the evening; we had to go to my mother’s house to watch The Amazing Race! My lovely birthday present bags of compost sat unopened. This morning I made it out [...]
