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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ferns’
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 »
flashback: 12 October 2007 — our favourite job
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, plants, public gardens, tagged Billardia longiflora, cats, dogs, ferns, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, plants on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why is Klipsan Beach Cottages my favourite place to work? We love other clients and gardens, but KBC offers the perfect combination of wild garden areas and a more formal deer-fenced area, clients who appreciate unusual plants and who are willing to buy the good topsoil and amendments that it needs, a budget to buy [...]
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: 20-22 April 2007 — Weather good and challenging
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, private gardens, tagged ferns, gardening, Grass Roots Garbage Gang, plants, volunteering on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday we checked on a number of different gardens from Long Beach to Discovery Heights and weeded and cleaned up some of the streetside gardens along Howerton Way at the Ilwaco Harbour Village: the port gardens, the Port Bistro restaurant, and Time Enough Books. (left) at the McD drivethrough in Long Beach, yellow Tulip ‘Big [...]
flashback: 18 April 2007 – vignettes from three favourite gardens
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, ferns, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, plants, tulips on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back to Laurie’s garden, we found definite progress in the garden, nothing yet approaches the Jurassic height of midsummer; in fact, it’s hard to believe the plants will get that tall so soon, but the lushness is beginning to flourish. We planted two Joy Creek vines: A Clematis tangutica ‘Lambton Park’ from County Durham, UK [...]
flashback: 13 March 2007: spring garden clean up
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged Andersen's RV Park, ferns, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From a day when we worked in the rain, the drizzly kind in which one becomes saturated almost unknowingly, to a day when the ceaseless downpour kept me indoors reading a book about books, to a day when we tried to work but found that the wind nearly blew us off of our feet. I [...]
flashback: 25 Feb 2007: a day of not reading
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, our garden, plants, spring clean up, tagged books, cats, ferns, reading on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
While pondering the pouring rain and peering through water-drenched windows wishing I could go out and prune my own sword ferns, I remembered the new plants I had bought at Portland Avenue Nursery in Tacoma on the way home from the garden show. There was not much to buy, except for some Burp/wood hellebores which [...]
update part two: Ruth’s garden
Posted in history, journal, tagged ferns, gardening, Ruth Fritz, Seattle on May 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Allan is in Seattle at his mother’s funeral as I write this, and I am remembering her and her garden. Because his trip involved a day of preparation and, afterwards, a day of legal and family matters, I have stayed here to work yesterday and tomorrow, and to have this one day off, theoretically to [...]
one day of work!
Posted in journal, plants, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged Anchorage Cottages, bulbs, Crank's Roost, ferns, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, Phormiums, tulips on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The rain has returned today more heavily than the forecast predicted. Yesterday we did manage one day of work. A Facebook friend from Cornwall tells me to get out there with waterproofs but I don’t relish the way water wicks up one’s arms and down one’s neck, so am still hoping for a spate of [...]
to the rescue at Casa Pacifica
Posted in journal, narcissi, plants, private gardens, tagged bulbs, Casa Pacifica, cats, dogs, ferns, gardening, tulips on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday morning we got a call from our client Dan Sass that contractors were digging a ditch through the back of the garden….a necessity to lay electrical line to a new building. We decided we had better go check it out. (I had still been pondering where to go on that day. After three days [...]
