28 May 2007: a week in gardening, part one

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 been working so hard it all blurs together.  Lots of watering….it’s been dry, with only one brief downpour Wednesday afternoon to give us respite.   Only my daily photographs give me memories of what we did, and only the most striking things, like that adorable big frog, got me excited enough to fish out the camera.

KBC (Klipsan Beach Cottages) had a date with a photographer to take new photos for their website, so we spent a large portion of last Tuesday their making everything picture perfect.

We had time afterwards to plant some impatiens under one of Jo’s rhodos, at her request, and to check on the watering of the new garden at Andersen’s RV Park.  As always, the staff are  faithful waterers.

Oriental Poppies highlighted the day: the dusky mauve ‘Patty’s Plum’ at Andersen’s, and a bright red one backlit by late sun at Jo’s. .

Wednesday, we spent a thorough session at Laurie’s getting her garden perfected for a birthday party she’s holding for her mother.

Laurie’s Enkianthus

That Enkianthus (temple bells) shrub of hers is more amazing than the last time we were there, with its thickly clustered bells of such an unusual colour. Dusty apricot? Terracotta peach?

Meanwhile, I had an exciting plan for the late afternoon: to at last start replanting the Shelburne’s truck damaged garden area, but twas not to be as a shocking pouring windy black squall roared in.  We loaded the necessary soil amendments at the Planter Box, hoping for a weather reprieve, but as we reached the Shelburne the storm was still fierce and would have made for a muddy work mess, so we had to go home, unload the soil, and plan to start again the next morning.

Laurie has a sharp eye for good plants, and earlier in the aftenoon she espied in our car several plants on their way to the Shelburne.  Her admiration won her the Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’  and the Buplureum fruticosum!  So sorry, Shelburne, but I am easily swayed by the desires of a plant nut!