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. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘springtime’
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 »
flashback: April 2008 — horses and deer
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, nurseries, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, trees and shrubs, tulips, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, bulbs, deer, Discovery Heights, gardening, horses, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, plants, springtime, tulips, volunteering on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Springtime weather returned during the first week of April. All the creatures rejoiced in it. Laurie’s garden remained one of our favourites. Her horse herd had grown and now included golden Moony, the Peruvian Pasos Pinta and Elé, grey Kachina (not pictured above) and the newest, the miniature Dewey, rescued from dire circumstances, nurtured back [...]
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, [...]
flashback: 5 May 2007: playing in the KBC garden
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tulips, tagged Andersen's RV Park, Basket Case, ferns, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, springtime on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday night when we stopped at mom’s to bring in firewood, I snagged a few more volunteer seedlings of Verbascum olympicum from her vegetable garden…the one with white woolly leaves and a tower of yellow…to take to Marilyn’s, a garden which lacks them and simply must have them. So today that transplanting job was number [...]
flashback: 19 April 2007 – Long Beach in bloom
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, public gardens, tulips, tagged bulbs, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, plants, springtime, tulips on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
All the public gardens of Long Beach are featuring tulips as the main floral attraction, a show that should continue into May. On the beach approach, the deer have thoughtfully backed off from munching every tulip bud so we finally have a bit of a show there. Three beauties (left) in Fountain Park: Astilbe, Darmera [...]
flashback: 13 April 2007–while waiting for repairs
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, narcissi, plants, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged Andersen's RV Park, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, narcissi, springtime, tulips, windowboxes on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday the 13th: a wonky trailer throws a wrench into the workday One of the wheels of our utility trailer went wonky….No surprise because as Allan pointed out, that same little trailer brought his worldly goods down from Tacoma, and since then has hauled around heavy loads of mulch, river rock, and weeds for two [...]
flashback: 6 April 2007–in which some work is described
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, spring clean up, springtime on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Contrary to the impression perhaps given by the previous entry, life is not all fluttering around the flowers but does involve lots of digging and pruning at this time of year. This week we took on a one time clean up at a house for sale by the golf course in Surfside An old camellia [...]
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: 22 March 2007: signs of spring around the Peninsula
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Discovery Heights, gardening, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, reading, springtime, weather on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, 22 March 2007 Out weeding the beach approach today, we finally made it to the arch…and a good thing as the temperature dropped and a heavy rain began. I had just gotten a container of wildflower seeds from Mike, the Parks manager, so in the rain and wind we applied them to the bare [...]
