The beauty continued, post-garden tour, in Laurie’s garden on the bay. How I love Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ in the fall: The pale yellow little sunflowers, and the dramatic height….which of course in Laurie’s Jurassic Garden grew even a little taller than anywhere else (thanks to a sprinkler system and manure from her five horses). Tasteful [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Laurie’s garden’
flashback: Laurie’s garden in September 2009
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, perennials, plants, tagged gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, Willapa Bay on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 19 August 2009 — and so life changes
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged congestive heart failure, gardening, Laurie's garden, lilies, Mom's Garden on March 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
All it can take is one day to change life in a dramatic way. Sometimes what seems like the worst change can turn out to be beneficial. But it is hard to see any change as good when it involves being forced by financial woes, a new job, a divorce, or ill health to leave [...]
flashback: 27 June 2009 — Laurie’s garden open
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, ferns, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, lilies, Long Beach Peninsula garden tour, Music in the Gardens tour, private gardens, Willapa Bay on March 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Two gardens on tour on the same day: What a dilemma. I wanted to experience the whole day in each of them, but on the Music in the Gardens tour day I started at my mother’s garden, made a dash with tour organizer Patti to Laurie’s at mid-day, and then returned to my mother’s. As [...]
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: autumn 2008 — horses at work
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, tagged horses, Joanne's Garden, Laurie's garden on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We carry some apples, carrots, or at the very least a container of healthy horse treats from the feed store for our equine friends at work. Kat and Moony were the friendliest of the five horses at Laurie’s garden. (11/19/08) Miniature horse Dewey was not so friendly, so we tossed him his treats from a [...]
flashback: vignettes, June-September 2008
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Basket Case, Cannon Beach Cottage Tour, deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Marilyn's garden, memorial gardens, our garden, plants, private gardens on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The garden we had created for Linda in memory of Rob Linderman had matured by June 2008 into a lovely haze of mostly blue, his favourite colour. Here it is on June 25th: From the deck of Linda’s beach house it’s an oasis of blue in a backdrop of beach grass and shorepines. To the [...]
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: 17 December 2007 — winding down
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged fall clean up, gardening, Laurie's garden, roses, Time Enough Books, winter, winter flowers on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
and thus work ends for the year… The mild weather kept work going for a long time. Lack of frost meant cosmos kept blooming into late November. Finally we had to pull them, still slightly blooming, out of the old boat at Time Enough Books at the Port of Ilwaco in order to plant the [...]
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 [...]
