Klipsan Beach Cottages: November & December 2012
Dec 28, 2012 by Tangly Cottage
We now come to the less showy months in the Klipsan Beach Cottages garden, but it still has beautiful structure. And at last we got some rain!
9 November
the fenced garden from the driveway
Rose ‘Jude the Obscure’ still has the occasional bloom
Euphorbia characias wulfenii and bronze fennel both have architectural foliage.
the pond island bed
Allan and I planted hundreds of narcissi in the woodsy areas of the A Frame gardens.
25 November
a misty day of soft focus…
Rose ‘Jude the Obscure’
Hardy fuchsia ‘Debron’s Black Cherry’
There used to be a specialty hardy Fuchsia nursery near Portland called “Moniere’s?? Country Garden” or something like that. Our local Basket Case Greenhouse now carried many hardy fuschsias from their collection.
Rose ‘New Dawn’
Hardy Fuchsia
hardy Fuchsia ‘Hawkshead’, one of my favourites: white with a green tinge
black currants
blueberry autumn colour
king frog and cottages
hydrangeas and the A Frame deck
planted MORE narcissi in the A Frame garden
10 December
Mary and Riley walk into the picture
the pond island bed
Rose ‘Jude the Obscure’ still has some crumpled flowers.
Thalictrum ‘Elin’ has been cut down.
We had used the tall stems of Thalictrum ‘Elin’ and some of the other autumn trimmings to make our Halloween avenue of spooky plants at home.
pot by office stairs
Mary and Denny go all out decorating for the holidays.
on the pond island bed by driveway
by the small fenced garden water feature
the lady fountain in the lawn bed
lighted sweet pea tuteur
Mary and Denny’s deck
the deer fence
in the fenced garden with cottages in background
13 December
We come for the last work session of the year, and add mulch to the fenced garden. This is almost our last day of work before we take our six week staycation.
mulch
Rose ‘New Dawn’ in late bloom
Knock Out roses
faded last blooms
Hardy Fuchsia magellanica
Hydrangea ‘Izu No Hana’
And at the very end of the last KBC workday, Mary and I find and put out this sign…
at rest
So…come stay at Klipsan Beach Cottages in 2013. (For reservations call 360.665.4888.) We promise we will do our best to make the garden just as wonderful next year.
Still lovely, even in Nov. & Dec.!
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Thanks! We did not go there today (rain) so I did not find out anything more re fence construction yet.
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We went today and Denny says he makes his fence lattice from 1×6 or 1X8 cedar, cut into strips on a table saw.
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