On the night of November 21st a wind whipped the Peninsula, nothing as fierce as the big blow of 2007 but enough to create considerable havoc. We went out the next morning to check out our jobs. The fences at Jo’s garden had fared rather badly. The top of an arbour had blown off and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘weather’
flashback: 22 November 2009 — the winter of my mother’s garden
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, tagged gardening, Mom's Garden, storm damage, weather on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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: January-February 2008 — outdoors and indoors
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, history, private gardens, public gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged chickens, hydrangeas, Northwest Flower and Garden Show, pruning, Seattle, weather, Willapa Bay on February 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Because only through photos can I remember! Late January of 2008 saw the rare coldness that iced over our pond… …in which I had cast to sea a fishing float (but I have to confess that I bought it at Marsh’s Free Museum). Its colour nicely echoes a gazing ball that Allan had given me [...]
flashback: 12 December 2007 — a storm known as The Monster
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged December 7th storm, hurricane, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, KMUN, Laurie's garden, Sea Nest, storm, weather, Willapa Bay on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Finally the storm came, and all the skeptics must have been sorry that they did not stock up ahead of time. It lasted three long days of winds up to 140 up in the hills and 85 mph whipping through the towns. Downtown Astoria’s businesses lost windows, sucked out by the vacuum of the wind, [...]
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: 19 August 2007 — progress at home
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, trees and shrubs, tagged gardening, our garden, plants, pruning, roses, weather on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We are trying to take more time off and have lately done some rather drastic changes to the garden. The greatest of these was at the front gate, where an old apple tree supported climbers gone wild: Akebia quinata, Rose ‘Bobbie James’, Clematis tangutica, a grape that I just remember as swamp grape from Forest [...]
Flashback: 10 June, 2007 — Friday’s circuit of the Peninsula
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Discovery Heights, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, plants, Sea Nest, weather on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new plan for writing: If one wrote a brief bit every night, one might still just have vignettes but at least not a week’s worth piled into one day. When the days are light till after nine, the dedicated gardener is lured into working until dusk, leaving piles of The Oregonian and The Astorian [...]
flashback: 28 May 2007: a week in gardening, part one
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, gardening, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Work has gotten to be a bit much, with days stretching into ten hours…and still all the annuals are not planted! I have enough cosmos left for Carol’s garden in Nahcotta but not enough for Joanne’s, so till I get my hands on some more have been doing other things. But what other things? Have [...]
flashback: 20 May 2007 — progress report on annuals
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, cats, Discovery Heights, gardening, Ilwaco, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), Long Beach Peninsula, nurseries, plants, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Now that I have the finger blight rant out of my system, here’s an update on planting of annuals: We spent the last several days continuing the rather frenzied planting of cosmos ‘Seashells’, ‘Double Click’ and ‘Sensation’ mixes and painted sage, intermixed with the occasional godetia and perennial. (I just learned that the common name [...]
flashback: 14 & 15 May 2007 — annual frenzy and a revelation
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, nurseries, perennials, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged annuals, Basket Case, gardening, Jo's garden, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Planter Box, weather on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since annual planting time began three days ago, I have continued to have a growing revelation: it is not good to be too busy. I actually said no to a job: digging up some large shrubs for a valued client. I suggested she find someone with more youthful vigor. It’s not that we can’t work [...]
