August photo sessions in our garden: A Gallery Early August…..all was well. The garden tours for which we were responsible had been successes, and indeed, we had heard that my mother’s garden and Laurie’s had been among the (and maybe THE) favourites. Our garden still felt some of the lingering good effects from having been [...]
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flashback: 2 – 10 August 2009 in our garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, lilies, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, lilies, our garden on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: July 2009 in my garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, our garden, plants, roses, tagged Aconitum (monkshood), gardening, Ilwaco, lilies, our garden, private gardens, Rosa palustris, Rose 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just outside the lower gate…golden hops has escaped the hedgerow and twines around my newspaper boxes. To the right of the lower gate, and orange lily seeks some room next to the tall wild impatiens (jewel weed, touch-me-not). The jewel weed’s sap is good for nettle rash and insect bites. Its flowers look like orchids. [...]
flashback: 2009, May and June in our garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, narcissi, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged bulbs, Cosmos 'Double Click', deer, double-file viburnum, gardening, Himalayan blue poppy, hostas, Ilwaco, Meconopsis betonicifolia, narcissi, our garden, Persicaria bistorta 'Superba', plants, private gardens, roses on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our 2009 garden continued to benefit from having been on the 2008 tour…holding some of its form and cleanliness with minor amounts of work (and a good thing, too, with trying to get two other gardens ready for the 2009 tour). Although we were endlessly busy I managed a few go-rounds with the camera. I [...]
flashback: 19 December 2008 — snow in our garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Ilwaco, our garden, snow, winter on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Snow is an unusual event here at the beach and one that has us out with our cameras recording every snow flake and drift. On December 19th, Ilwaco and our garden were transformed. Allan and I each walked around and around the garden taking photos from every angle while the huge falling snowflakes obliterated our [...]
flashback: 6 September 2008 — a perfect afternoon in our garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, ferns, garden touring, grasses, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, gardening, our garden, plants, ponds, Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant' on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One afternoon in September I decided to give myself the tour experience within our own garden….to wander, to sit, to ponder and to observe. Looking back on the years in this garden I do wish I had found more time to sit, especially by the pond. I’m not sure I could have done anything different, [...]
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: 12 August 2008 — another garden open day
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged books, deer, garden touring, gardening, our garden, plants, reading on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Summer 2008 was indeed the year of glory for our garden. August 12th saw the Vancouver garden club on tour; every year, one of their members goes on the Peninsula garden tour and chooses a few favourites, then requests a tour for her group a month later. It did inspire me to keep the garden [...]
flashback: 28 June 2008 — our garden on tour day
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, our garden, plants, private gardens, tagged gardening, gardening touring, Long Beach Peninsula, Music in the Gardens, our garden, plants, Water Music Festival on February 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The day had arrived for our stint on the Music in the Gardens tour…and absolute perfection had been attained in our garden, or so I hoped. Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose (upper left, above) had blessed the garden with its one week of peak bloom. The beds and pots around the pond were weeded, even the [...]
flashback: May through mid-June 2008 — preparing for a garden tour
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, container gardens, garden touring, hardscaping, nurseries, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Cistus Nursery, garden touring, gardening, Joy Creek Nursery, Long Beach (Washington), nurseries, our garden on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In spring of 2008 we agreed to let our garden be on the Peninsula garden tour. I had long resisted, never feeling ready, but finally our friend Patti, tour organizer, said to me “You know you are going to do it eventually, so why not get it over with?” As soon as I had committed, [...]
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, [...]
