30 July: south to north and back

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

We did our usual run up north, making it all the way to Marilyn’s in Surfside again.

display window at Olde Towne

We procrastinated by sitting for awhile with Bonnie and her service dog, Maggie.

Allan’s photo

my very good friend Maggie

She was rescued after an early life in an abusive home (where her ears were clipped)

She now has an excellent and much-loved life.

It was awfully hard to leave all this and go to work…but we had to.

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Golden Sands Assisted Living

Golden Sand bear-proof garbage shed!

Double J and the Boys (regulars at Ilwaco Saturday Market) were performing “cowboy songs” in the dining room.

Here are my usual photos of the quadrant gardens in the courtyard, to track their progress over the year.

The south east quadrant

the northeast quadrant

the northwest quadrant

the southwest quadrant

There are a few late summer plants about to bloom so I do hope there is more going on here by next week.

The view into the courtyard from the south corridor window makes it look enticing.

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Klipsan Beach Cottages

the bed below the deck of Denny and Mary’s house….a deck that soon is going to get some construction work.

Allan pruned just a few uppies off the rose/clematis arbour.

(after) just a few, as the honeysuckle is blooming now…and we were short on time.

the traditional weekly look in the east gate of the fenced garden

and a look from just inside the west gate, for a change

That blank wall at the end of the garage used to hold a trellis on which a clematis climbed. We found the trellis in the burn pile; we always check it for good scavenge items.

Allan was quite taken with the agapanthus (like a blue allium, quoth he)

Hmmm….Some Agapanthus would be helpful at Golden Sands!

I admired it also.

I had a terrible time long ago remembering the name Agapanthus, till I thought “It’s a mystery…Agatha Christie…agapanthus.”

Strobilanthes atropurpureus

I also had a hard time remembering strobilanthes, until I thought it’s blue and white…like a strobe light.

Strobilanthes atropurpureus, a late blooming hardy perennial

Allium sphaerocephalon (drumstick allium)

I am heavily promoting drumstick alliums to my friend Jamie, who has a garden in Surfside and whose spouse was a session drummer in Hollywood. Have you ever seen the Fat Albert cartoon? He played the drums in the intro!

I brought up a bucket of mixed lily bulbs from my mom’s garden when she moved into Golden Sands in 2010; some very tall ones got planted in silly spots, too close to the paths.

like this one which I am determined to move this fall.

I wish Mary could find the name of this rose that she bought from a catalog.

a glimpse of the vacation cottages on the ridge; guests are welcome to walk through the gardens.

the lower part of the fenced garden

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Marilyn’s Garden

I had a feeling that more shasta daisies would need deadheading at Marilyn’s; they can look so awful when they brown off.

As we arrived, we had an audience from the neighbour’s roof.

Allan starts work.

bunny tails grass (Pennisetum ‘Little Bunny’, I think)

Phygelius…just nibbled by the deer, still blooming (with Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, also slightly nibbled)

path, west side of house

Persicaria ‘Firetail’

Cosmos fallen sideways, still blooming

back porch, planters by Nancy Aust of the Basket Case Greenhouse

looking northwest from the porch steps, after deadheading the daisies (which did need it)

looking west…thuggish bronze fennel, daisies, tall Miscanthus

a peek at the swale garden to the east of the porch (north side of house)

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Wiegardt Gallery

We head back south to Ocean Park and the Wiegardt Gallery.

entry: good lavenders and rosemary, cistus by bay window is surviving after a dicey springtime, too much dang blang Geranium ‘AT Johnson’, probably too much Geranium macrorrhizum…

in the excellent grass beds out in the lawn

with a beautiful pink feathery Sanguisborba

By what miracle have the deer who live in this garden left the sanguisorbas alone? Perhaps I will try some at Marilyn’s, also a deer garden.

The other sanguisorba tones so nicely with the window trim. (You can see by the window the Cistus which is not entirely happy.)

Cosmos to the east of the front door in an area we re-did last year. (And the annoying orange montbretia in the background…to be pulled!)

Yikes, the holly needs pruning; we mustn’t let it get tall again.

elephant garlic in the north garden bed

At Wiegardt parking lot, the panel we scored from the KBC burn pile; Allan lashing in buckets for safe driving

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Oman Builder’s Supply garden

We did not have to do anything but cut back one lily. I photographed this grass that I love and got…somewhere…in hope that Scott of Rhone Street Gardens can ID it for me!

beautiful and so blue

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Anchorage Cottages

We closed our day at the Anchorage Cottages in north Long Beach, where I was seriously out of steam and just took one photo:

a sweet edging plant, Persicaria affinis ‘Dimity’, must re-introduce it to my own garden. Love the multiple pink shades.

Allan dug deep after this and watered the Ilwaco planters; it has to be done every three days. I, of course, worked on my blog, still writing about the Music In the Gardens tour.