Port of Ilwaco curbside gardens in 2015
Dec 14, 2015 by Tangly Cottage
We care for the curbside gardens along Howerton Avenue in Ilwaco. Originally, sometime around 2003, the garden beds were installed and planted up with things that proved to be much too tall: pampas grass, New Zealand flax, Arbutus, California wax myrtle. In 2005, street trees (columnar pears) were planted. We were hired around that time to care for the bed to the north of Time Enough Books, and the job eventually evolved to being hired by the port to care for all of the gardens. Our mission has been to add drought tolerant plant diversity that can hold up to the wind and to replace tall plants with low ones that allow good traffic sightlines. The long drought of summer 2015 proved challenging for the gardens. We especially wish to thank the businesses that let us hook up to their water: Time Enough Books, Bruce and Wendi Peterson and Salt Hotel. There are two places where we can hook up to port water to reach a few of the gardens (at the port office and the Ilwaco pavilion). We are hoping (or dreaming) for two or three more convenient water hook ups to appear by 2016. Thanks also to CoHo Charters who keep their escallonias nicely trimmed and healthy and to Don Nisbett and Jenna Austin who regularly water the garden near their gallery.
Here are the curbside gardens through the year in 2015. I decided to present them as a gallery rather than a slide show so that those who wish can see them in more detail. If you click on the first one to biggify, you will get a nice display with backward and forward arrows.
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2-11, Craft 3 Bank
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2-27, Salt Hotel
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3-10, Ilwaco Pavilion
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3-12, poppy seeds at Bruce Peterson Gallery
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3-12, Salt Hotel
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3-12, mulching at Howerton and Elizabeth
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3-13 Ilwaco Pavilion
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3-27, Ilwaco Pavilion
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3-27, Port Office
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3-27, Ilwaco Pavilion
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3-27, tulip and artemisia
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3-27
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4-8, Peterson Gallery
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4-8, Peterson Gallery
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4-8, Ilwaco Pavilion
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4-15, Howerton and Elizabeth
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4-15, Howerton and Elizabeth
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4-15, Ilwaco Pavilion
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4-15, Port Office
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4-15, west end
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4-15, Salt Hotel
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4-15, west end, Todd helps out
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4-30, California poppy and sea thrift
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4-30, California poppy and sea thrift
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4-30, Peterson Gallery, Ceanothus
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4-30, at Elizabeth
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4-30, Ilwaco Pavilion
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4-30, Don Nisbett Gallery
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4-30, west end
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5-2, Port Office
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5-2, Port Office
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5-9, west end
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5-9, Salt
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5-9, Time Enough Books, Ceanothus
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5-9, Port Office
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5-9, west end
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5-18, west end
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5-18, Todd helps out
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5-18, at Elizabeth
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5-19, Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
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5-19, at Elizabeth Ave
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5-20, Ilwaco Pavilion
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5-20, the “drive-over garden”
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5-20
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5-20, Carex buchananii and lambs ears
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5-23, Salt Hotel
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5-23, west end
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6-9, Port office
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6-9, Ilwaco Pavilion
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6-9, Elizabeth
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6-9, bachelor buttons
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6-9, Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
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6-13, Port office
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6-13, Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
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6-16, Ilwaco Pavilion
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6-16, eryngium and santolina
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6-17, Time Enough Books
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6-20, Salt Hotel
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6-23, bucket watering
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6-23, bucket watering
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6-23, bucket watering
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6-23, eryngium and carex
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6-29, Port office, lavender
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6-29, Time Enough Books
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6-29, Port office
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6-30, Elizabeth
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7-2, Peterson Gallery
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7-2, Time Enough Books
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7-7, Time Enough Books
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7-7, Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’
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7-7, Don Nisbett Gallery
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7-7, old blue oat grass
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7-22, eryngium and carex
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7-22, Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’
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7-22, Port office
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7-22
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7-28, Port office
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7-28, Gaura and lavender
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8-1
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8-1, Port office
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8-4, Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’
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8-4, Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
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8-5, Peterson Gallery
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8-24, Salt Hotel
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8-29, at Elizabeth Ave, Stipa tenuissima
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9-3, Ilwaco Pavilion
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9-9, Salt Hotel
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9-11, Slow Drag
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9-11, Slow Drag
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9-17, Time Enough Books
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9-22, mulching Time Enough Books
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9-22, Time Enough Books
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9-26, Port office
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11-8, Time Enough Books, Ceanothus Ceanothus
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11-22, at Elizabeth Ave
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11-23, Port Office
Posted in journal | Tagged Bruce Peterson Gallery, California poppies, Ceanothus, Don Nisbett Art Gallery, Eryngium 'Sapphire Blue', Eschscholzia californica, Gaura 'Whirling Butterflies', Howerton Avenue gardens, Ilwaco pavilion, narcissi, Origanum rotundifolium 'Kent Beauty', Port of Ilwaco, Salt Hotel, Time Enough Books | 5 Comments
Some great drought tolerant plants you have there. Loved seeing it through the seasons too. Amazing that you can kept them watered this last year with no let up of the dry season!
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Thanks, Debbie!
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This was fun, even though I’ve followed along with you all spring and summer I enjoyed seeing this group of planters evolve as an independent post.
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Thank you!!
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Reblogged this on Our Ilwaco.
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