The City of Long Beach had long had an Adopt-a-Planter program for its more than 30 street planters. I recall the planters being installed in the early or mid 90s. Volunteers came and went. Some were summer people whose planters therefore looked terrible all winter. Some planted with enthusiasm in May and then did not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘volunteering’
flashback: July & October 2008 — continuing saga of the Long Beach planters
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, container gardens, plants, public gardens, tagged gardening, Long Beach (Washington), planters, plants, volunteering on February 22, 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: 1 December 2007 — calm before the storm
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, tagged Have Tux Will Travel, South Pacific County Humane Society, storms, volunteering, weather, winter on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
South Pacific County Humane Society Brunch We knew from the news that the storm was coming: Hurricane force winds bearing down on us from across the Pacific. Saturday, December 1st, was windless but snowy and sleety…Not the sort of day on which I usually venture forth as I’ve an intense dislike of walking around on [...]
flashback: 7 October 2007 — volunteer gardening
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, tagged gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, Rebuilding Together, volunteer gardening, volunteering on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rebuilding Together on the Long Beach Peninsula Rebuilding Together‘s fairly new Pacific County group had its second 2007 volunteer day in Saturday’s rain. Allan and I went to a project where nine excellently warm windows were to be installed in a double wide manufactured home. The owner had once had a pretty garden which several of [...]
flashback: 20-22 April 2007 — Weather good and challenging
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, private gardens, tagged ferns, gardening, Grass Roots Garbage Gang, plants, volunteering on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday we checked on a number of different gardens from Long Beach to Discovery Heights and weeded and cleaned up some of the streetside gardens along Howerton Way at the Ilwaco Harbour Village: the port gardens, the Port Bistro restaurant, and Time Enough Books. (left) at the McD drivethrough in Long Beach, yellow Tulip ‘Big [...]
flashback: 8 April 2007–How many Ilwacoans does it take to plant a tree?
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, Ilwaco Harbour Village, Long Beach Peninsula, volunteering, weather on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Does it always rain on volunteer days? Two years ago we planted ten street trees (a columnar ornamental pear called ‘Cleveland Select’) with a group of volunteers. Last summer two trees were broken off at the base by evil vandals, and we have now planted eleven more. The first planting day was accompanied by driving [...]
flashback: 24 March 2007: Brim’s and Lewis and Clark Nurseries
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, nurseries, plants, tagged Ande's Café, Brim's Farm and Garden, gardening, nurseries, The Planter Box, volunteering on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 24 March 2007 Volunteering in Rain Gear Today we needed to acquire my new mobile phone (“Give me a bell on my mobile!” as they say in the UK) but first we had obligated ourselves to plant some sword ferns at the Chinook Sea Resources Fish Hatchery where a wonderful new nature trail [...]
