On the way to work Monday, we touched up the Ilwaco Post Office garden.
Then I went off garden touring with Nancy while Allan undertook a Long Beach project on his own: the pond at the corner of Pacific and Bolstadt; it had become a haze of horsetail since our spring cleanup there.
He had just finished when I rejoined him and we accomplished the replanting of the Fish Alley planters. The Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ had gotten leggy and tired from fighting the wind.
I am determined to have to water these less, as they are a bucket watering chore, so am going with Sedums, Sempervivums, Thymes.
With that accomplished, we did more weeding at Jo’s garden. A weekly visit between now and the July 20th garden tour will keep it in tip top shape.
Not only did we weed but also did a bit of planting; Jo had gotten some lovely plants to fill in the hole where we removed a daylily last time.
We closed Monday out with some planting at Gene’s garden. I wanted the streetside garden to be full and had felt it needed more along the edges. Gene had bought some Dianthus and some Alyssum from the Basket Case and we had a few more plants to add.
Tuesday, we finally made it back to Casa Pacifica. Increasing rain did not stop us from getting the garden looking satisfactory again. We had intended to put in the day on the Long Beach Bolstadt beach approach garden, to get it spiffing for Doggie Olympic Games on the beach the coming Saturday, but an intense wind changed our garden choice to this sheltered somewhat inland one.
I would so love to see this garden mulched with yards and yards of dairy manure, and I would so like to avoid being the one to heft yards and yards of it up over those rocks. I must suggest that perhaps this garden owner could find a young person who wants to make a day’s wages shifting lovely non smelly Cow Fiber.
After almost five hours we left. Unusually for us we ended the work day early. There was simply nowhere else close enough by to finish the day out of the blustery wind (although it did die down enough so that we were able to enjoy our own garden!) First we ran an errand to the Basket Case Greenhouse, where their plants told the tale of how windy it had been.
We chose a hanging basket to go by our garage. It was a tough choice. Would it be this one?
Or this one?
Or this one?
Allan picked this one, liking the way that the yellow matched some of the trim on our house:
What a beautiful new hanging basket – it looks right at home in that corner. And it’s sure looking lovely at Jo’s. Sure wish I could see it in person. We hope the weather cooperates so that we can go on a garden walk in a neighboring town this afternoon. Forecast isn’t very friendly, but we’ll see. Have a good rest-of-the-weekend!
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Thank you! I hope you get your walk. Looking into other gardens is always such a treat.
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The hanging baskets are very good value. I’ll have them all please.
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Beautiful garden photos 🙂 Love the rock wall plantings and those gorgeous hanging baskets too.
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Thanks! Nancy Aust of Basket Case makes amazing baskets.
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[…] this week, did not get done as well as we could have with an extra day….the day we went to a sheltered garden to work instead because of 30 MPH winds. We (especially Allan) did, however, make a […]
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