Here’s the long awaited slideshow of the Long Beach Planters, 2009 (including, in May, a few shots of the street tree plantings whose footprint is just the same as the raised planters). Our conquest, er, acquistion, take-over? let’s say improvements of the LB planters had continued until now almost all of them were in our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘finger blight’
flashback: 2009 — The Long Beach Planters, April – October
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, finger blight, grasses, narcissi, plants, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, Cosmos 'Sonata', deer-resistant plants, finger blight, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, painted sage, planters, plants, tulips on March 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 2009 — the continuing drama of the Ilwaco planters
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, finger blight, plants, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, cats, Cosmos 'Sonata', dogs, finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, painted sage, planters, Time Enough Books, tulips, volunteer gardening on March 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We continued to plant, groom, and bucket water the Ilwaco planters, as well as two at the library that we took on as a small volunteer project. (plants: Cosmos ‘Sonata’, Salvia viridis (painted sage), Diascia, Golden Marjoram, Violas) But wait, what is THIS? Some yobbo (walking between the port and the local tavern?) pulled a [...]
flashback: 20 May 2007 — some thoughts on finger blight (a rant)
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, finger blight, public gardens, tulips, tagged annuals, finger blight, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), poppies, public gardening on February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One day recently we did a brief drive down the Bolstadt beach approach road, where the garden needs weeding if only I had the time, and we saw from the car a woman walking with a group of four people, carrying proudly in her hands a bouquet of tulips and other flowers which she had [...]
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 [...]
Alliums, why?
Posted in container gardens, finger blight, journal, public gardens, tagged finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula on July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps extremely short posts will make it possible for me to find time to blog. I will attempt to make some positive, not all whines about finger blight. But this is a burning question: Why must people, every year, pick the heads off the little alliums in the Ilwaco planters? They end up looking like [...]
container thoughts
Posted in container gardens, finger blight, journal, plants, public gardens, tagged containers, finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, planters, weather on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It seems the only reason I have time to write here is because I am not feeling quite well so have taken the day off while Allan weeds on our gardens at Discovery Heights, an area I feel comfortable delegating because there are no precious new plantings or mysterious seedlings that no one but I [...]
update, part one of three (the whining)
Posted in finger blight, history, journal, our garden, private gardens, public gardens, tagged deer, finger blight, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Because Allan’s mother, in Seattle, became ill and then passed away, with attendant pain and family turmoil, and some catharsis and healing, this journal has been silent for weeks. With Allan going back and forth to Seattle, keeping the two-person business going became too time consuming to think about blogging. I did imagine a post [...]
finger blight: we notice
Posted in finger blight, history, journal, public gardens, tagged finger blight, gardening, planters on April 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This is the same planter that had all its soil and bulbs pulled out a couple of weeks ago. We had carefully replanted it and the tulips were blooming beautifully, and today, this: The thing is: We notice! I know every single planter that we care for in Ilwaco, Long Beach, and Peninsula points north, [...]
Tulip Tour of Long Beach
Posted in finger blight, journal, public gardens, tulips, tagged finger blight, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, tulips, weather on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the happy town of Long Beach, on a sunny day just after rain, featuring: This year’s tulips! Battered with rain and wind and hail, these held strong despite rain-spotted leaves and petals.
hellish Saturday
Posted in finger blight, journal, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, deer, finger blight, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, Wiegardt Gallery on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Saturday did not go well. When we arrived at Andersen’s RV Park, I could not for the life of me find the rest of the packet of ‘Black Knight’ sweet peas from my friend Sonya, out of which I had saved a few seeds to add to the sweet pea display along the Andersen picket [...]
