Wednesday, 30 July 2014
We did our usual run up north, making it all the way to Marilyn’s in Surfside again.
We procrastinated by sitting for awhile with Bonnie and her service dog, Maggie.
It was awfully hard to leave all this and go to work…but we had to.
Golden Sands Assisted Living

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.
There are a few late summer plants about to bloom so I do hope there is more going on here by next week.
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.
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.
Hmmm….Some Agapanthus would be helpful at Golden Sands!
I had a terrible time long ago remembering the name Agapanthus, till I thought “It’s a mystery…Agatha Christie…agapanthus.”
I also had a hard time remembering strobilanthes, until I thought it’s blue and white…like a strobe light.
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.
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.

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

At Wiegardt parking lot, the panel we scored from the KBC burn pile; Allan lashing in buckets for safe driving
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!
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.
i think the rose in question is a “Double Delight.” I had one years ago–lovely!
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Thanks!
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“Some Agapanthus would be helpful” most ANYwhere, I believe….
I enjoyed ALL the trip from south to north and back – esp. the photo of the vacation cottages on the ridge (as I recall your description).
Sure wish I knew where OUR local burn pile was! What a “find”! I’ll look forward to seeing what you/Allan do with it.
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I think I finally decided where the trellis might go….
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