The beauty continued, post-garden tour, in Laurie’s garden on the bay. How I love Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ in the fall: The pale yellow little sunflowers, and the dramatic height….which of course in Laurie’s Jurassic Garden grew even a little taller than anywhere else (thanks to a sprinkler system and manure from her five horses). Tasteful [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Willapa Bay’
flashback: Laurie’s garden in September 2009
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, lilies, perennials, plants, tagged gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, Willapa Bay on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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: 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: 25 October 2007 — sights while bulbing
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, fall clean up, private gardens, public gardens, tagged bulbs, deer, deer-resistant plants, fall clean up, gardening, narcissi, tulips, Willapa Bay on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bulbing goes on, and between the exhaustion of it all and the problems I was having uploading to this site, the blog fell by the wayside. [2012 note: The problems were in uploading to web.mac.com, the iWeb blog hosting site which will be discontinued in June 2012, thus inspiring me to move all of 2007 [...]
flashback: 30 June 2007 — Music in the Gardens, part two
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, tagged dogs, garden touring, gardening, koi, Music in the Gardens, ponds, Willapa Bay on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Three of the gardens were so large and fabulous that I could not whittle down the parts to show you, so two of them share a page of their own, and Gyspy Pond can glory in its own private page. Caswell’s by the Bay bed and breakfast, while it looks like a historic home, was [...]
flashback: 30 June 2007 — Music in the Gardens, part one
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, tagged garden touring, gardening, Jo's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, Music in the Gardens, Oysterville, Water Music Festival, Willapa Bay on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
You might think we never work anymore, just take days off and go on garden tours. Not so, but in order to get some time off it’s true that I’m so focused on work that I don’t get out the camera much on jobs. This week we did accomplish one long awaited thing: The Shelburne [...]
flashback: 9 June 2007 —one week later, a project
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, hardscaping, nurseries, plants, private gardens, tagged Eryngium, gardening, Nahcotta, plants, Willapa Bay on February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A week of planting and watering and the refurbishing of a small entry garden….and two plant buying excursions, including today’s blessedly rainy day….How we rejoice to think of rain falling on the beach approach, the new plantings at Linda’s, the new garden we planted in Nahcotta, and all the tree and planter gardens in Long [...]
flashback: 5 March 2007: 2 balmy days at last
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged bulbs, Laurie's garden, Long Beach (Washington), narcissi, Willapa Bay on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Although we got a late start both yesterday and today due to Sunday laziness and a friend’s car trouble,we had the best weather, allowing for work almost till dusk. Next week, the glorious early return of daylight savings time will be a boon to our non-morning selves. The Shelburne needed its checkup, and [...]
flashback: 13 February 2007: dog and pony show
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, public gardens, spring clean up, tagged dogs, gardening, horses, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, ornamental grasses, Willapa Bay on February 8, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Our first visit of the year to the wondrous Laurie’s garden, a private paradise on the bay with a perennial border that verges on jungle in the summer. The usual cutting back of grasses and sedums and other perennials was done plus chasing down runners from Lysimachia purpurea and a white running aster that while [...]
