After a six week staycation, one of our first jobs of 2012 was to wake up the 5th Street Park in Long Beach today. We were tired of the winter structure of the Sedum autumn joy and so eager to make room to display oncoming spring bulbs. After, so satisfying, with a few early crocus [...]
Posts Tagged ‘roses’
February 2012 in Long Beach: waking up the fifth street park
Posted in journal, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, roses, sweet peas on April 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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: 8 July 2009 — mom’s 2nd garden open day
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, garden touring, lilies, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged cats, Clematis, garden touring, gardening, lilies, Long Beach (Washington), mom' garden, roses on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
On July 8th, the Vancouver (Washington) garden club returned in the morning to tour mom’s garden. Early rain had us worried but had almost stopped by the time the group arrived, and overcast weather does make for better garden photos. Mom made brownies and iced tea and decorated the table with some of her African [...]
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: 2009 — The Long Beach Parks, April through October
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, fall clean up, grasses, lilies, narcissi, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, tulips, tagged bulbs, cosmos, deer-resistant plants, gardening, hydrangeas, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, ornamental grasses, plants, ponds, roses, Salvia viridis, Super Dorothy rose, tulips on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t focused on blogging in 2009. Two of “our” gardens were going to be on the Peninsula garden tour and they conusmed my thoughts. I had not found a blogging plaform that I liked. So my photos of the parks do not tell a seasonal story, just vignettes of each. We take care [...]
flashback: 2009 at Klipsan Beach Cottages, still our favourite job
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, lilies, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged bulbs, cats, deer, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, narcissi, plants, roses, tulips on March 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been helping with garden care at Klipsan Beach Cottages for many years and it’s still our favourite job for a number of reasons: Owner Mary loves and collects cool plants; her spouse Denny is droll and amusing; the budget includes soil amendments and some new plants each year; part of the garden is fenced away [...]
flashback: 2009 — Sea Nest and Casa Pacifica
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, grasses, perennials, private gardens, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged Casa Pacifica, deer, deer-resistant plants, dogs, gardening, ornamental grasses, private gardens, roses, Sea Nest on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The only reason these two gardens are sharing a post is that I took few pictures of them in 2009. Sea Nest, a wonderful place to stay on the Long Beach Peninsula, had changed owners and we were changing the garden to be more low maintenance. For some reason the deer don’t bother this garden, [...]
flashback: April-August 2009-2011— Anchorage Cottages
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, lilies, perennials, plants, public gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged Anchorage Cottages, bulbs, Dan Hinkley, dog-friendly resorts, Escallonia ivey, gardening, hydrangeas, Long Beach (Washington), plants, roses, tulips on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a job I had done for a couple of years and from which I had amicably resigned in 2006 because the manager at the time (a new one) had called me while at the garden show and told me we must never work on Saturdays. We had indeed been there on a Saturday before [...]
Flashback: July-December 2008 — The Sea Garden project
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, perennials, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged deer, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, maples, private gardens, roses, Sea Garden, secret gardens on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I had long admired a garden in Ocean Park known to to its owner Kathleen and her friends as Sea Garden. For various reasons it had somewhat gone back to the wild over the past couple of years and had been damaged by falling trees during the big blow of December 2007. In July of [...]
flashback: 23 June 2008 — Sheila’s garden
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, perennials, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged dogs, garden touring, gardening, private gardens, roses, Sheila's garden on February 21, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Allan drove down from Ilwaco to Sheila’s on Sunday night because I had a carload of plants to take back with us. Pretty much all of them were for our own garden to enrich it before the tour that was less than a week away. We woke Monday morning to glimpses of Sheila’s garden through [...]
