Standing by the back porch looking north to the lawn, two views: June 18th and July 18th: Below: The back porch, June 18th and July 3rd. Marilyn’s mum recently told us that M. does not like or even quite approve of beer, and so hops might not have been the best choice of vine for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Marilyn’s garden’
flashback: 2009 — Marilyn’s garden, part two, the details
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, grasses, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Allium albopilosum, deer, gardening, Helianthus 'Lemon Queen, Marilyn's garden, ornamental grasses, Phygelius, plants, private gardens, Stipa gigantea on March 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
flashback: 2009 — Marilyn’s garden, part one, through the seasons
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, fall clean up, grasses, narcissi, perennials, plants, private gardens, spring clean up, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, private gardens on March 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A slideshow (and you know I love one) is the ideal showcase for Marilyn’s garden north of Ocean Park, as the perennials, grasses, and annuals rise up to meet their yearly challenge of hiding the neighbours’ garage window. (We leave some of the grasses up all winter and cut them back in early March.) The [...]
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: 29 May 2007 — light at the end of…
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, journal, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged bulbs, gardening, Marilyn's garden, Sea Nest, sparaxis on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The planting of annuals is almost done! Today we weeded and mulched Carol’s garden and got her cosmos in: Seashells, Sensation, and Double Click. Her garden looked lovely and was filling in in a most satisfactory way. Then on to meet a new client, who gave us carte blanche to fix up his entry garden [...]
flashback: 29 April – 1 May 2007 — three long and busy days
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Basket Case, gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, Wiegardt Gallery on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We ranged up and down the Peninsula for three days trying to accomplish all necessary jobs in order to leave the end of the week free for a huge sweep of the Long Beach gardens. This is the time that because of a Long Beach event (more on this later), work goes for many long [...]
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: 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: 15 March 2007: Those pesky deer will drive me mad
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged bulbs, deer, gardening, Marilyn's garden, ornamental grasses on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago we spent several hours weeding Marilyn’s garden. Marilyn is the mother of the owner of the wonderful Depot Restaurant where we have dined for many a pleasant hour. From scratch we made this garden last fall on scratchy sweeps of weedy sand. Several issues inspired the design. Like all small [...]
mostly about Marilyn’s (and privacy)
Posted in journal, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged deer, deer-resistant plants, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, Marilyn's garden, privacy on March 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Some further thoughts (after last post) on garden privacy…and just an update about work. I shouldn’t feel too guilty about work because we have been accomplishing a lot… We got the Buddliea and a bunch of other shrubs pruned at Cheri’s garden: Oops, where’s the after photo? It ended up a little taller than knee [...]
