Ilwaco planters: An evening stroll

On a quiet weekday evening in late July, walk with me from north to south down 1st Avenue while I check on the planters and street tree pocket gardens.  As i weed and deadhead, Allan will be filling up buckets with which to water them.  We have a water pump trailer but have found it takes half an hour longer to use it, so while we have the strength, we are back to the bucket method.  I’m satisfied with the planters this week  I still have Alliums in some of them; the Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ that I cut back in some has finally filled back in; the nasturtiums are trailing vigorously although not yet blooming.  A running theme is Erysimum (‘Bowle’s Mauve’ and occasionally a yellow one that was mislabeled as muave!), Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’ (catmint), Diascia, Cosmos ‘Sonata, Salvia viridis (painted sage), Brodiaea ‘Queen Fabiola’, a variety of annuals and nasturtiums from seed .

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