Andersen’s RV Park
Halfway up the Peninsula, we continue to do a longtime gardening job at Andersen’s RV Park. The huge success there in 2012 was the sweet peas along the picket fence. I have never seen them so huge and wonderful. I think it might be because the picket fence got replaced in March, and all the soil got ruched up and refreshed as a result.
sweet peas
sweet peas in August
They lasted into early October.
Lorna of Andersen’s bought hundreds of Narcissi and Alliums after seeing a vast Narcissi display on a Martha Stewart show. Here Allan plants some in the Payson Hall (Rv Park clubhouse) planters.
November, planting many the bulb
Sea Nest
Sea Nest, another longterm job, is represented this year by just this one photo of the ‘Zepherine Drouhin’ rose on the driftwood arbour by the door.
Zepherine Drouhin
This especially nice rose is almost thornless and blooms reasonably well in slight shade.
three north end gardens
I had a whole series of photos of the entry garden at Oman Builders Supply, but they are no great loss as it was from the same angle and almost the same as 2009!
The same is true for Marilyn’s garden, here shown its its progress from spring to fall in 20o9. Next year, I am going to do a series of photos from the deck of the house, or maybe looking from south to north.
Our 2012 garden at Golden Sands Assisted Living disappointed me. It just did not get enough water, and I did not figure out the problem til well into our summer drought. Then we took over by hose watering thoroughly once a week instead of relying on sprinklers, but the garden never got wonderful enough to inspire a photograph. It has so much potential, being in an enclosed courtyard with no deer, and I want it to be glorious in memory of my mother. I need to focus more on this in 2013, even though it is not a high paid job and has limited hours. I think I must devote some volunteer hours if I want to garden to fulfill my (and my mother’s) dream.
The Wiegardt Gallery
In Ocean Park, the Stipa gigantea (my favourite ornamental grass) looked stunning at the Wiegardt Gallery in late spring 2012.
Stipa gigantea
I tried planting more chartreuse flowers to tone with the pale green building.
such as Nicotiana langsdorfii
Maybe I just need to go with contrast. That colour baffles me and I have not been able to figure out what looks good against it.
28 May, back of Wiegardt Gallery
9 November after rain
next: the gardens at Klipsan Beach Cottages…still my favourite job.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
Quintessential pretty cottage garden at the RV park!
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Thanks! It may have been my biggest sweet pea success in recorded history. 😉
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I’ve planted them for years, hoping, and last year finally had success 🙂
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Supposedly they do better where they have been planted before! Some people use “sweet pea innoculant” (which apparently I cannot spell) when doing a new patch. So maybe the good sweet pea whateverness built itself up in your garden.
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