Wednesday, 30 September 2015
On our way to work, we watered the Ilwaco Post Office planter, and I noticed to my dismay that the deer have discovered it.
The Planter Box

We stopped at The Planter Box on our way north to pick up a few plants for a container at the Anchorage.
After our second tour of the Oysterville garden, we put in a half day of weeding and grooming several gardens.
Marilyn’s Garden
Klipsan Beach Cottages
Managers Denny and Mary do everything from lawn care to cleaning to welcoming guests and doing the paperwork. They own one of the cottages and their own home on the resort property.
Golden Sands Assisted Living
Anchorage Cottages
watering Ilwaco
Watering season is still not over, so Allan took the water trailer on the Ilwaco rounds.
Meanwhile, I was at home doing the monthly billing and anticipating writing this blog post and reliving of walking through the Oysterville garden today.
Thursday, 1 October 2015
We finished our great big two day work week with a three small jobs and then Long Beach.
Halloween is a very big deal on Spruce and Lake Streets in Ilwaco, and we are beginning to collect our materials for our Corridor of Spooky Plants.
The Red Barn
Poor bronze fennel, once so prized, and recommended by influential gardeners in slide shows at garden seminars, and now on the noxious weed list.

And it is gone! (Allan’s photo). The tall stems will go in our Corridor of Spooky Plants for Halloween.
Diane’s garden
My good friend Misty came out to meet us even before we got next door to Diane and Larry’s garden.
The pink heather that was Diane’s inspiration for having us make this roadside bed is already going over, which is why I did not want to make it the only plant here.
The Depot Restaurant
If we deadheaded every old cosmos flower, we’d be here for an hour!
Long Beach
We took two jugs of water for the newly planted Sid Snyder beach approach planters, as the water is turned off there.
My darling little hens and chickens have already been stolen from the planter above. That is IT, I will nevermore plant hens and chickens sedums in any of the Ilwaco planters. They got stolen here, and on the Bolstad approach, and in Fish Alley. As Allan says, someone probably has a nice collection of hens and chicks on their windowsill. I picture the same person prowling and thinking “Ooh, has she planted any more? YES, a new kind for my collection!” Feh. It is frustrating because they would be so perfect in all the beach approach planters that are hard to water.
Because watering season is not over after all, we watered all the main street planters and street trees.
We also had time to pull Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ at four locations, or rather, Allan did, while I worked the Veterans Field garden deadheading….
This is the only planter where we have let a large amount of ‘Lucifer’ stay. The owner of Wind World Kites likes it very much. Most shopkeepers prefer to not have something so tall in front of their shop.
We had time before dinner to pull more Crocosmia at City Hall, in an area along the west wall planted by former city administrator Gene Miles. I found some weeding to do because when I pull crocosmia I feel like the top of my head is going to fly off. (Yes, that’s weird, but true.)
The Cove Restaurant
Todd joined Melissa, Dave, Allan and I making up a good meeting of the North Beach Garden Gang.
Two friends from Plant Delights nursery, where Todd used to be the curator of the display garden, had been to visit for a week. They had eaten clams and mushrooms which the three of them harvested, and visited old growth trees by Teal Slough:
And the north Oregon coast:
We caught up with Melissa and Dave (Sea Star Gardening) on news about the work week.
Allan and I are now set for another self indulgent five days off! We’re hoping for good evening weather on Saturday so that we can have a campfire dinner with Melissa, Dave, and Our Kathleen, and of course I am hoping to not leave my property for the entire five days.
Oh, my goodness! You pack a lot into 2 days! I especially like the long & narrow red barn & roadside gardens (Don’t remember seeing them before…..). And the apple/blue cheese salad was inspiring to me today. I think I shall try to “compose” one for myself!
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I bet it will be delicious.
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