23 July: a good day in Long Beach
Aug 10, 2015 by Tangly Cottage
Thursday, 23 July 2015
The Depot Restaurant
The Depot garden on north side of deck gets its weekly deadheading and supplemental watering.
cosmos and (new this year) lilies
Cosmos and Gladiolus papilio
Gladiolus papilio
Depot east wall
Long Beach welcome sign
The godetia at the sidewalk end are starting to decline, as they do.
front of sign
Echibeckias are now joining with Agyranthemum ‘Butterfly’
I’m not sure what I think of that colour combo. Wish the Geranium ‘Rozanne’ would size up and cool it down with blue.
back of sign
Anchorage Cottages
We do love a job where the watering is taken care of.
windowboxes and Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and cosmos on east wall
center courtyard
center courtyard with Nicotiana langsdorfii
Tigridia and Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve
Solanum crispum ‘Glasnevin’
colour coordinated trumpet lilies
I don’t know the name of that particular lily and wish I did. I probably got it from my mother’s garden.
Agastache ‘Acapulco Salmon and Pink’ by the office
Agastache ‘Cotton Candy’ and cosmos and Nicotiana langsdorfii
Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ with Gaura ‘So White’ and Petunia ‘Pretty Much Picasso’
the successful sweet pea patch against east wall chimney
sweet peas
sweet peas
Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
Long Beach
We watered all the planters and groomed Fifth Street Park.
Rose ‘Super Dorothy’ in Fifth Street Park
Fifth Street Park with Basket Case Greenhouse basket (watered and fertilized daily by city crew)
Fifth Street Park
Fifth Street Park
Eryngium ‘Jade Frost’
Lewis and Clark Square planter, looks perkier than when just re-planted yesterday.
center newly planted
I pruned down the rhodo behind the wall so this new restaurant shows better. (The top of the rhodo was looking windburnt and pitiful anyway.)
I’m excited about a kabob house opening soon.
Uh oh, the horsetail is already back at the Bolstad pond.
sign at NIVA green
I was getting lots of compliments on the planters, and on the hanging baskets (which I always credit to Basket Case Nancy and the care of the city crew), so I was in a happy place on this day.
Geranium ‘Rozanne’
Coulter Park
‘Hopley’s Purple’ oregano
early evening light
pink Salvia viridis and pink dahlia, Allan’s photo
We finished the workday with weeding and deadheading at the City Hall gardens.
lily by city hall entrance
Basket Case baskets
I just had a revelation. I have spelling Bolstad as “Bolstadt” lo these many years. Ooops. It’s far too late to go back and correct dozens of blog entries.
Allan’s photo: hostas lace-leafed by snails
City Hall west side
Allan’s photos: grooming a gladiolus
Allan’s photos: making annual poppies look better by taking off old leaves (because we want them to reseed); they are in front of the Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
city hall lily
The Cove Restaurant
Ah, I’d been looking forward all week to our dinner with Melissa and Dave (Sea Star Landscape Maintenance) at The Cove.
Sondra’s garden at The Cove
open doors to evening light
dinner salad
strawberry salad
Melissa’s noodle bowl
ahi tuna for me, of course
scrumptious cannolo for dessert
PLC (Parking Lot Cat)
We enjoy having this Thursday tradition, and Allan and I were ready for our new-this-year tradition of three days off.
City crew fertilizes baskets everyday?? I was always afraid to to do that. What do they use?
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They use a very diluted Miracle Gro. I wish we could all use an organic fert. in the baskets and planters, but M Gro is cheap and goes well through a hose end sprayer. I don’t use it on garden beds because I feel it is better for the tilth of the soil to use an organic fert. at ground level.
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A real feast of flowers today. Thank you.
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You are very welcome.
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My gosh, everything looks gorgeous (okay, except for the snails’ lunch)! I think the color combo at the sign is just fine. Very cheery!
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Thanks, Basket Case Nancy likes it, too. And not just because I got the echibeckias from there. I still find them a bit somber.
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