The garden we had created for Linda in memory of Rob Linderman had matured by June 2008 into a lovely haze of mostly blue, his favourite colour. Here it is on June 25th:
Rob’s garden
From the deck of Linda’s beach house it’s an oasis of blue in a backdrop of beach grass and shorepines.
Rob’s blue oasis
To the right you can see the path that Rob and Linda used to take to the beach….
Throughout July we continued to maintain our garden in peak condition….here in sun and in shade.
left, Rosa mutabilis and sunny container; right, a shade planter
On Agust 7th we could declare the usual seasonal success in almost hiding the neighbour’s garage from the view in Marilyn’s garden.
Marilyn’s garden
The view in both directions down Marilyn’s path had me completely satisified.
Marilyn’s path
Marilyn’s daughter Nancy named it “The Healing Garden” because watching it helped her mom recuperate from a health crisis. Here’s proof that a garden that two deer fawns nested and grew up in could still be beautiful and lush with deer resistant flowers.
August in Marilyn’s garden
As you can see, we did go from job to job rather than spend the summer lounging in our perfect garden. Here, on August 18th, Laurie’s clump of Persicaria ‘Firetail’ arcs prettily behind her purple ceramic birdbath (from The Basket Case Greenhouse).
in Laurie’s garden
The gardens at Klipsan Beach Cottages looked luscious in pink and blue…sometimes a hard palette to achieve in late summer when flowers often run to oranges and yellows.
hydrangea, dahlia, sanguisorba
In September my friend Jeannine and I went on the Cannon Beach Cottage tour. I had talked extensively about how wonderful it had been the previous year and how marvelous to get inside the historic cottages. But the 2008 tour featured mostly rather plain, newer cottages on the east side of the highway and I was left with only three photos of details I wanted to recall.
geraniums
I loved this little inset of geraniums (pelargoniums) in a wall. Annual geraniums always remind me of my grandmother.
And this wall of shelves in a cottage made the whole trip worthwhile even though the rest of the cottage interiors were too plain and modern for my taste.
a satisfying cottage wall
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