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
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.
Mrs Tootlepedal has been pulling a lot of crocosmia lately too. That was a big spider.
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