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 ‘Jo’s garden’
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 December 2007 — a storm known as The Monster
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged December 7th storm, hurricane, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, KMUN, Laurie's garden, Sea Nest, storm, weather, Willapa Bay on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Finally the storm came, and all the skeptics must have been sorry that they did not stock up ahead of time. It lasted three long days of winds up to 140 up in the hills and 85 mph whipping through the towns. Downtown Astoria’s businesses lost windows, sucked out by the vacuum of the wind, [...]
flashback: 15 October 2007 — the two fall clean-up philosophies
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Ann Lovejoy, cats, dairy manure, dogs, fall clean up, gardening, horses, Jo's garden, Laurie's garden on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An aside: the new horse at Laurie’s is in its own corral because one of the other horses took a dislike to it. We have three cats, one of whom hates the other two, but it is a lot easier to manage three incompatible cats than three incompatible horses! The cats find their own private [...]
flashback: 30 June 2007 — Music in the Gardens, part one
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, tagged garden touring, gardening, Jo's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, Music in the Gardens, Oysterville, Water Music Festival, Willapa Bay on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
You might think we never work anymore, just take days off and go on garden tours. Not so, but in order to get some time off it’s true that I’m so focused on work that I don’t get out the camera much on jobs. This week we did accomplish one long awaited thing: The Shelburne [...]
flashback: 28 May 2007: a week in gardening, part one
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, gardening, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Work has gotten to be a bit much, with days stretching into ten hours…and still all the annuals are not planted! I have enough cosmos left for Carol’s garden in Nahcotta but not enough for Joanne’s, so till I get my hands on some more have been doing other things. But what other things? Have [...]
flashback: 14 & 15 May 2007 — annual frenzy and a revelation
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, nurseries, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged annuals, Basket Case, gardening, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Planter Box, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since annual planting time began three days ago, I have continued to have a growing revelation: it is not good to be too busy. I actually said no to a job: digging up some large shrubs for a valued client. I suggested she find someone with more youthful vigor. It’s not that we can’t work [...]
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 [...]
flashback: 4 April 2007–our tulip and narcissi festival
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, plants, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tulips, tagged gardening, Jo's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Marilyn's garden, narcissi, springtime, tulips on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For the past week of work have been marvelling at the gorgeous bulbs everywhere. I have utmost faith as I plant fall bulbs because they are so dependable. Back at R___’s memorial garden, the narcissi glowed in the sunset: The miniature narcissi form delicate clumps and have more character than the larger ones. [2012 note: [...]
flashback: 1 April 2007–7 days, 18 gardens, part 2
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, journal, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tulips, tagged gardening, Jo's garden, Long Beach (Washington), weather, wind on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday a windy gale of unusual spring strength hampered us with some misery while we collected manure at the Red Barn and delivered it in buckets for mulching the gardens at the transitional housing cottages. The lawnmowing guy showed up and kept saying “Whew! That’s FRESH!” so while the smell did not offend Allan nor [...]
