At the darling Seaview cottage called Crank’s Roost, we managed to work one day in September at the project of creating paths through the south woodsy lot. The established gardens inside the front gate and to the east of the house always filled our eyes with pleasant details as we sorted out picks, rakes, prybars [...]
Posts Tagged ‘private gardens’
flashback: September-December 2009 and onward at Crank’s Roost
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged bog gardens, Crank's Roost, gardening, hardscaping, private gardens, trees on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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: 12 August 2009 — taking on Crank’s Roost
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged Crank's Roost, gardening, private gardens, Seaview Washington, Terence O'Donnell on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I’d had my eye on a certain garden in Seaview for years at a house named Crank’s Roost, the former beach home of author Terence O’Donnell. (His book Cannon Beach: A Place by the Sea captures the history and feel of nearby Cannon Beach, Oregon.) In 2008 we almost got the job but we were so [...]
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: 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 — 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: 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: 13 June 2009 — Sauvie Island tour, garden five
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, tagged favourite gardens, Garden Conservancy Open Days, garden touring, gardening, private gardens, Sauvie Island, sit spots on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When we saw this bench at the entry to the next garden, we had a feeling we were finally in for something exciting. A red door beckoned….Oh so similar to a door in my own garden and that Gearhart garden I’d so loved in summer of 2008. Walking alongside the house, with Tetrapanax papyrifer [...]
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: 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. [...]
