On our yearly early spring plant buying road trip we always go to Joy Creek first, then on to Cistus on Sauvie Island. The first time I went to Cistus I recognized only a small proportion of the plants on offer. Here is a true collectors’ nursery. I have heard that Dan Hinkley shops at [...]
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flashback: early spring 2010-12 — Cistus Nursery
Posted in 2010 garden journal flashbacks, 2011 garden journal flashbacks, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Cistus Nursery, Echium candicans 'Star of Madeira', garden touring, gardening, plants, Pseuodpanax ferox on April 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
flashback: early spring 2010-12 – Joy Creek Nursery
Posted in 2010 garden journal flashbacks, 2011 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, nurseries, perennials, plants, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged ceramic birdbaths, ceramic birdhouses, garden touring, gardens, gravel in the garden, Joy Creek Nursery, plants on April 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I love our yearly trip to Joy Creek and its neighbour down the road, Cistus Nursery. Because if you are still slogging through all these garden tours, you are probably also a plant nut, here are scenes from three years of spring shopping trips. I do remember one glorious year that I was there more [...]
flashback: 19 July 2009 — Astoria garden tour, Millpond Village
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Astoria garden tour, Astoria River Walk, Astoria Trolley, Columbia River, garden touring, gardening, Millpond Village, tiny gardens on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The little townhouse gardens of the Millpond Village, east of downtown Astoria, were also on the tour…One could have browsed around them on any day, but the tour gave the opportunity to get up close without feeling nosy and to walk around the private sidewalks of a couple of the houses. escallonia, lavender, lavatera, artemisia…. I [...]
flashback: 19 July 2009 — Astoria tour, a west slope garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, hardscaping, tagged Astoria garden tour, dry creek beds, garden touring, gardening, hardscaping, planting on a hillside, terraces on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the west slope of Astoria’s long tall hill (I just realized Astoria seems to be a town of one big hill rather than Seattle’s several hills), a private garden took a different approach to dealing with a steep slope than had the formally terraced Warrenton garden. The lower slope’s dry creek bed culminated in [...]
flashback: 19 July 2009: Astoria garden tour part one: Warrenton
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, tagged Astoria garden tour, garden touring, gardening, lilies, poppies, purple and orange, Warrenton Oregon on March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In July, Allan and I went on the Astoria garden tour. Most of the gardens were public ones, two or three being rather small community veg patches. Give me secret gardens, please! Yet even the long drives to little veg patches provided some interest, because one was in a low income housing neighbourhood…and there [...]
flashback: 8 July 2009 — mom’s 2nd garden open day
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, Clematis, garden touring, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), mom' garden, roses on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
On July 8th, the Vancouver (Washington) garden club returned in the morning to tour mom’s garden. Early rain had us worried but had almost stopped by the time the group arrived, and overcast weather does make for better garden photos. Mom made brownies and iced tea and decorated the table with some of her African [...]
flashback: 5 July 2009 — the summer of my mother’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged fairy chairs, garden touring, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), Mom's Garden, plants, private gardens on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the fifth of July we spent a day grooming mom’s garden for her second garden open day. From the parking area on the east side of the house, you might not have guessed that a big bright sunny garden awaited. By her car port, a blue geranium rambled through a cutleaf elderberry. Almost all [...]
flashback: 27 June 2009 — Mom’s garden open
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, tagged books, garden touring, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula garden tour, Mom's Garden, Music in the Gardens tour, private gardens on March 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »
2009 was the summer of my mother’s garden. We had spent many the day getting the garden ready, and the results would last in beauty through the whole season. The day of the Long Beach Peninsula “Music in the Gardens” tour dawned bright. And yes, we saw the dawn because garden tour days make this night [...]
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 »
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 [...]
flashback: 13 June 2009 — Joy Creek Nursery
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, nurseries, plants, public gardens, tagged garden touring, gardening, Joy Creek, nurseries, plants on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We did make it back to Joy Creek Nursery in Scappoose before closing time. I think they must have stayed open late to accommodate tour-goers. Not for us the close parking area by the plant sales area. The place was buzzing with shoppers so we parked in the overflow lot and walked down the road [...]
