Wednesday, 10 June 2015
I had a hard time getting going this morning. Devery stopped by while doing her daily check up on Nora’s house and picked some strawberries from our garden; I have asked her to do so as I am too busy to keep up with them.
First job of the day:
Basket Case Greenhouse
Our stop at the Basket Case was simply to pick up five plants for Long Beach planters, to replace plants stolen recently by thieving varmints. While there, I was delighted to see Ed and my nephew, Jackson Strange.
As we departed, a cedar waxwing had gotten into the main greenhouse and was having a hard time figuring out how to get out.
Marilyn’s Garden
We began at our furthest north garden, in Surfside.
I was mad at myself because I forgot to bring some painted sage to plant here. Next time!
interlude
On the way south to our next job, we bought an oscillating sprinkler at Jack’s Country Store, which resulted in driving down Ridge, one block over from the highway. There I admired two pocket gardens which I do think might be asked to be on the garden tour next year or the year after that! (I believe Nancy has enough gardens this year.)
Klipsan Beach Cottages
While I groomed the fenced garden, Allan did some weeding along the woodland swale:
He got a whole heaping wheelbarrow of weeds removed.
In the fenced garden:
Golden Sands Assisted Living
On the way through the hallways to the courtyard garden, I met a new friend named Susan.
I had not even been sure we should take time to stop at Golden Sands, till I had remembered that the birdbaths surely needed filling, and indeed they did.The weekly overview of the four quadrants:
As we left, I made another new friend named Ginger.
Andersen’s RV Park
Allan took on the project of weeding by the entry.
He also tidied up along the walkway by the restrooms and laundry room.
I weeded by the garden shed, the picket fence garden, and the Payson Hall boxes:
home
I had to do a good watering of the front garden with the new oscillating sprinkler, and on the back patio I found that the Hymenocallis (Peruvian daffodil) had begun its brief and amazing show:
Coolest thing today: Mary and Denny of Klipsan Beach Cottages gave us a blue gate leg table. Wrestling it in and out of the trailer was hard (easier for Allan) and rearranging our comfy guest chair to make room for it was mentally hard, but it is now in a spot in our living room where I will be able to have breakfast while looking out the window instead of in the windowless corner (where the dining table naturally fits, due to a low hanging ceiling light fixture in the double wide floor scheme). Next: two mostly Long Beach days during which I do hope we can manage some more beach approach weeding…
Not sure that’s a goldfinch in the greenhouse–perhaps Mr. Tootlepedal can identify it, even though it’s a Yank. I believe your nephew Jackson truly adores his auntie. And as for yesterday’s travails, I just realized it was a new moon yesterday, and they tend to be nasty, so perhaps that too shall all pass!
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I was wondering that myself when I looked at the photo while proofreading last night. Hope someone IDs it.
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Golden Sands is coming right along. Very colorful! And Kathleen is right, that’s a cedar waxwing in the greenhouse.
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Thanks, I’ll change the caption when k get home.
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The many colors and varieties in the beds are so cheerful! The fence in the 2nd-potential-garden-walk is very fascinating. AND as usual, I love to peek inside your house at every and any opportunity! Sweet table. Lucky you.
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Thanks, Rebecca! I don’t show the horribly messy parts of the house 😉 except maybe once in a before and after of my other table.
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I don’t think that that is a goldfinch either but I am not good on American birds so I don’t know what it is. I liked your fist picture a lot.
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Thanks, Mr T. Cedar waxwing is the ID.
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I thought that it might be a waxwing but wasn’t confident enough to say so.
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A long driveway lined with kniphofia (red hot poker) flowers attracts flocks of cedar waxwings. I’d much rather see them there, than in the cherry trees! And your nephew puppy is getting BIG.
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The Peruvian daffodil is amazing…..like something from outer space!
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Turns out apparently deer eat it as it was chowed down on at job with deer. Or maybe it was snails.
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