On the night of November 21st a wind whipped the Peninsula, nothing as fierce as the big blow of 2007 but enough to create considerable havoc. We went out the next morning to check out our jobs. The fences at Jo’s garden had fared rather badly. The top of an arbour had blown off and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mom’s Garden’
flashback: 22 November 2009 — the winter of my mother’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, tagged gardening, Mom's Garden, storm damage, weather on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: August 2009 and onward — losses and gains
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged aging, aging parents, assisted living, Golden Sands Assisted Living, Mom's Garden on March 20, 2012 | 4 Comments »
After just a few days in the hospital, my mother had been doing a lot of thinking and planning. She had already been inspired by the socializing on her garden tour days to imagine that someday she might live in the local assisted living center, Golden Sands. Because of her crippling shyness, she had always [...]
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: 16 August 2009— a peaceful afternoon in Mom’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, plants, private gardens, tagged Christopher Lloyd, dahlias, gardening, hot colours, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), Mom's Garden, private gardens on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The summer of my mother’s garden continued as on August 10th and 16th we mowed the lawn, visited, deadheaded some flowers, and took pictures of the continuing garden perfection. By now the dahlias (probably my mom’s favourite flower) had begun to bloom profusely, and the lily show went on and on. By the street, a [...]
flashback: 15 & 25 July 2009: more of me mum’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, tagged aging, cosmos, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), Mom's Garden, roses on March 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I did say that is was the summer of my mother’s garden. Over the month of July it got better and better as more lilies, annuals, and roses came into full bloom. Gardens are ephemeral and bound up with the fate of the gardener. This summer of beauty was the peak of this garden’s existence. [...]
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: April 2009, tour prep in my mother’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, tagged garden touring, gardening, Hellebores, Long Beach Peninsula, Mom's Garden, plants, private gardens, Pulmonaria, springtime on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We had agreed to have my mother’s garden on the Peninsula garden tour in 2009 at the request of tour organizer Patti Jacobsen. Oh dear. The garden was a wreck. Our own garden on tour had taken precedence in 2008…and my mother had been unable, since 2007, to do any of her own gardening work. [...]
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 »
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, [...]
