13-14 Sept: 2 work days

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

at home: Coreopsis ‘Flower Tower’ and Sanguisorba ‘Pink Elephant’

Mike’s garden

the front garden, with some boxwood clipping having been done

big spider (Allan’s photo)

Sally watching us work (Allan’s photo)

The Depot Restaurant

deadheading and watering at the Depot

unpleasantly hot!

The Red Barn

The Red Barn Arena garden

a sad Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ (from having stable water poured on it, maybe)

…revived by clipping.

Diane’s garden

a planter in Diane’s garden

and a cool plant Diane had bought herself

I do wonder where she found this!

Diane and Larry’s roadside garden

Diane’s roadside garden

hotter still!

The Anchorage Cottages

Mitzu greets us at The Anchorage

Allan’s photo

Anchorage arbutus

arbutus flowers

Mitzu finds a spot of shade.

Jo’s garden

at Jo’s garden (where back up offers are still being taken)

It was time to take down the Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’.

before (Allan’s photo)

after (Allan’s photo)

impatiens along the north wall of the enclosed porch (Allan’s photo)

double impatiens

center courtyard

the en suite guest room

Ilwaco

Allan watered the east end port garden that I had not done yesterday, and we both watered at the boatyard.

view while watering at the boatyard

one of my favourite boats (because I like the name)

The Turmoil captain asked to pick some rosemary to cook with his chicken dinner. Very nice, and the rosemary was close by.

sweet peas from inside the fence

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

I had received a text from Melissa saying that THE Oysterville garden’s owner wanted me to know the asters were all in bloom.  When could we go, I wondered…and then realized it should be today, our north end day.  That visit will get its own post (next).  Meanwhile, here is our short work day.

Long Beach

While I had an hour long dentist appointment, Allan worked in the Veterans Field gardens.

A bagpiper was just warming up!

He then moved to another park.

Veterans Field flowers

bright red penstemon

Another painted rock turned up in the garden.

Meanwhile, at the dentist…

I enjoyed this lighthouse wallpaper…

and bird art by local artists.

and even a painting by Todd’s well known artist brother, Eric Wiegardt.

I joined Allan in Long Beach, where we pulled Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ from the south parking lot “berm”.

abelia, before

and after

fall color from a euonymus

At the window of the Great Escape espresso drive through before driving north

Klipsan Beach Cottages

We drove seven miles north to finish the workday at Klipsan Beach Cottages.

view over the birdbath

Cosmos ‘Seashells’

much too tall Boltonia asteroides ‘Snowbank’

sit spot with Tetrapanax ‘Steroidal Giant’

from the path near the sit spot

autumn crocus

Sarah

Sarah and her brother Timmy

It’s time to start removing tatty old ferns. Allan did this one…before..

and after

Today had been our client Marilyn’s memorial mass…right during the time my dental appointment (not an easy appointment to change) had been supposed to run through.  As it turned out, the appointment took a half an hour less time than allotted.  Because we were in our work clothes, we were not presentable to alter our schedule and show up a bit late to the service.  Our friend J9 went and so did Mary C. (owner and manager at KBC).  Mary gave me the programme to keep.  I do feel reminded of Marilyn daily because our new cat, Skooter, was her loving feline companion.

Marilyn, of Marilyn’s garden, mother of Nancy of the Depot Restaurant

We are maintaining Marilyn’s garden every other week now till the sale of her home closes, and this was not the week to go there.  We ended our workday early and headed another seven miles northeast to Oysterville, Washington, to tour the splendid garden which will be in tomorrow’s post.

Klipsan Beach Cottages to Oysterville

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1998 (age 74):

Sept 14 (Monday):  Cooked first applesauce.  It always seems like my busiest day is Monday.  I went out about noon to do some hand watering but ended up in the garage. I brought 4 or 5 boxes of various sizes of pots from the shed and sorted all the pots by size.  Then I started rooting through the stuff along the east side.  I threw out lots of containers such as cottage cheese tubs etc.  Now I can reach the boxes left over from my garage sale so I can sort thru them soon.