Friday, 8 April 2016
From almost 83 degrees yesterday, our weather plunged to a chilly 50 degrees with a 25 mile an hour icy cold north wind. I would have welcomed back the heat that I had complained about yesterday, because even with warm clothes and winter scarf, I was chilled to the bone and pushed around by the wind.
Ilwaco

My favourite tulip, ‘Green Wave’, at the Ilwaco post office

Waterfront Way

port office garden

mulched

our view

got a hug and some dark chocolate kisses from artist Don Nisbett, whose gallery is next door to the port office

one of our planters, GONE

Dag nab hit and run drivers!
The Depot Restaurant

We deadheaded and weeded.

Tulip ‘Virichic’

a delicately rimmed narcissi

north wall garden

Narcissus ‘Thalia’

We now know these cottages were moved here from Fort Canby after WWII.

Center courtyard: The annoying wild scilla looks great right now.

Tulip ‘Strong Gold’ and Hebe ‘Quicksilver’

Narcissi

by the office

foreground: a pot of ‘Green Star’ tulips all broken off but one. What happened here?

Tulip ‘Green Wave’ coming on
I had been looking forward to a day of tidying parks and planters.

By Veterans Field: the big frying pan awaits Saturday’s Clam Festival. (Allan’s photo)

We got warm coffee drinks at the Great Escape Drive Through Espresso (Allan’s photo). The barista says sometimes the crosswind will blow coffee right out of her pitcher .

golden marjoram and a geranium, by the frozen yogurt shop

Cerinthe major purpurascens

note to self: that rhododenron looks sickly (left); must be pruned

street tree garden

Carousel, Tulip ‘Strong Gold’, Narcissi ‘Baby Moon’ (blooming three weeks early than it should)

Tulip ‘Orange Princess’

Asphodeline ‘Lutea’, how I love thee.

Narcissus ‘Baby Moon’

Muscari ‘Plumosum’

Tulip ‘Rococo’…and some picked tulips.

Fifth Street Park, still rather drab

Coulter Park: I left Allan working and went on to check two more blocks of planters.

Who pruned this tree by Dennis Co? I want to cut off the ugly stubs.

Tulip ‘Formosa’..used to bloom in early to mid May.

another gorgeous Narcissus

essence of spring

City Hall

just stunning how these hosta shoots start out purple

in NIVA green

tin lamps by proprietor/artist Heather Ramsay

green tulips in the planter by NIVA green
On the way back to Allan, I weeded the circular bed in the front of Coulter Park, and found to my delight that Allan had finished the back of the park. He thinks, so correctly, that the roses on the weedy salmonberry infested side should be replaced with something non thorny because it is such a bugger to weed around them. City crew is too busy rebuilding a ball field to bug them about this, but I hope eventually we can get this area cleared and replant it.

before (Allan’s photo)

birdsfoot trefoil around the roses (Allan’s photo)

after (Allan’s photo)

Allan’s photo

Coulter Park azalea (Allan’s photo)

sword fern, before (Allan’s photos)

and after

Coulter Park after

Coulter Park

cold wind from near the berm (Allan’s photo)

TOO COLD to continue; the rest can wait for next week or better weather.

Coulter Park: done and erased! All sweet peas gardens planted.
Ginger’s Garden Diaries
from my mother’s garden diaries of two decades ago
1997 (age 72):
April 8: The GE repairman came and said the dishwasher motor is shot. I’ll not be in a hurry to buy a new one. I spent several hours transplanting tomato seedlings into individual pots. Put the flea stuff on Tabby.
1998 (age 73):
April 8: 11:00-4:45 Ron the tiller man stopped by to see if I can leave the leaves, twigs, etc to be tilled into the soil. It was too deep so I spent the rest of the afternoon picking all that stuff and piling it on top of the old compost box which means I won’t be able to sieve that soil for baskets, etc. When I stopped at 4:45 I was so tired I went to bed till 7:00.
A clam festival sounds fun! We had cooler temperature here as well. Mid 40s all morning yesterday, finally reaching 50 by noon. The sun emerged about 5:00 PM.
Many thanks to the Powers that Be for backing you up. Sorry you had to experience the problem with the shopkeeper. Perhaps they will make amends once they think about it, and treat you better in the future.
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Thanks, Lavinia.
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Isn’t Narcissus ‘Hillstar’ (yellow petals/white cup in the container at Anchorage) a great daffodil? I need to grow it again.
Sometimes a spring day can feel colder than most winter days. Sounds like you had one of those!
Gardens are looking spectacular. Especially love the planter with the golden marjoram and geranium! Just scrumpt-deliosious!
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Thanks for the ID on the narcissi. I mix em all the place when planting and am too swamped during bloom time to sort em out! Thanks. That geranium was from Joy Creek and has lasted many years.
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That certainly is a big pan. I thought that it was a work of art until I read on.
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I’m so glad that the crappy shopkeeper was reprimanded.Hopefully he/she will not feel the need to start a public garden turf war.
I believe I am going to need ‘Virichic’ next year .
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Virichic is a mighty good one.
I am going to have an eagle eye on that particular planter and on the counter in that shop (for bouquets!).
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