Friday, 30 June 2017
We had today to get the boatyard garden weeded for tomorrow’s Port of Ilwaco fireworks display crowd….and the beach approach, for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. I did want very much want Saturday and Sunday off.
I began in my own garden by picking a bouquet for Salt Hotel’s holiday weekend.
Astilbes are good in bouquets…
…and I have lots of astilbes right now.
‘Sugar Shack’ continues to come back after being given up for dead!
Nicotiana ‘Fragrant Cloud’ lives up to its name.
I am going to plant MORE Nicotiana ‘Fragrant Cloud’ next year, and I would very much like to find Nicotiana sylvestris ‘Only the Lonely’, as well. (I’d rather be able to buy a flat of it than buy just one on mail order.) Annie’s Annuals says this one self sows!
yellow hearts of Lamprocapnos scandens
Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’
post office garden
delivering bouquet to Salt (mostly astilbes and sanguisorba)
Ilwaco Boatyard garden
Our first project was to finish weeding the boatyard garden…not to absolute perfection, but as close to it as we could get.
In three hours, we finished it!
a boat on the move (Allan’s photos)
Before moving on ourselves, I decided to walk the length of the garden, south to north, for a photographic record.
Halmiocistus wintonensis
Geranium ‘Rozanne’
an unfortunately unclipped santolina (which is why we clip them)
Catananche (Cupid’s Dart)
mysteriously empty area (plant jacking?)
Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’
finger blight
Allan noticed it, too.
sweet pea (Allan’s photo)
clipped santolina
past the gate
Cistus (the one remaining of several)
I love the way fallen ceanothus flowers look like a crushed glass mulch.
Deer are not eating the lilies so will plant more.
Echinops (blue globe thistle)
A lot of the pink sidalcia clump had been broken or picked.
Persicaria ‘Firetail’
This spot was also mysteriously empty…filled in now with some cosmos and (disappointing) painted sage
a daisy from a start from Jo’s garden
Helenium ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’
a running perennial sunflower from a start from Andersen’s RV Park
calendula
looking south from the north end
We took a short break at home…
Skooter in the garden (Allan’s photo)
before heading to…
Long Beach
We had about five sections left to weed on the Bolstad beach approach.
Allan manually jug watering one planter (the only way to water out here)
All but 6 of the remaining photos today are Allan’s.
birds foot trefoil and vetch swamping the roses
before
before
during
after
before (well, during)
Rugosa rose and Sweet William
filmy white vetch, not even pretty like the purple one
happy tourists (telephoto) taking the obligatory arch photo
coreopsis
We got through all the remaining sections of the approach garden.
rolling out the debris at city works
We just got done in time to have the weekend off and to meet Dave and Melissa and Todd for Friday night dinner at
The Cove Restaurant
Sondra’s cat by the parking lot
North Beach Garden Gang arrives
in the foyer
perusing the tempting menu
Sondra’s dog Lacey out on the golf course
clams for Melissa
lemon caper pasta for me
noodle bowl and harvest salad
Todd and Dave tuck in
a dessert shared by all
We stayed till we were by far the last table and the vacuum cleaner was about to come out, the hint that it is time for us to go home.
The gardens, both your own and the public ones, look delightful.
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Thanks, Mr T!
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