Saturday, 14 April 2018
Looking out the front window, I noticed that the goldy-bronze Japanese maple, which I planted for eventual privacy, tones well with the cottage across the street.
Allan picked up some books from the library and did some deadheading there:
Ilwaco Community Building
Tulipa sylvestris
Tulipa (probably) ‘Peppermint Stick’
at home
In the early evening, Allan went on a splashabout in the back garden.
I wish that white bucket was not sitting there. Fire water bucket. I keep forgetting to move it.
in the bogsy wood
looking north from the Bogsy Wood
Bogsy Wood bridge
Bogsy Wood swale
the seasonal pond at the Meander Line
looking north
fairy door
at the north edge of the Bogsy Wood
lawn under water
In the evening, we watched the documentary Kedi, about the cats of Istanbul. It was glorious. You can watch it right here.
Skooter, lower right
To protect our telly, we had to put Skooter into the laundry room. The soundtrack of meowing cats had him all in a tizzy. He never gets worked up by the meowing on the show My Cat From Hell.
After the film, I studied the first couple of chapters of this book, a gift from Lorna, former owner of Andersen’s RV Park, a longtime past job of ours..
I have looked at all the lovely photos before, but this time I am seriously studying it as I am not all that successful at intensive cutting gardens. I am wanting a small one around the edges of the back garden of the Shelburne Hotel and would like to do better with cutting flowers at home because I am taking bouquets there on a regular basis.
A sweet story of how the author got started:
I don’t often pick bouquets for myself but I do like to make them for other people. I learned useful items already, such as succession seeding for annual flowers up till July 15th. And planting them extra close together for cutting flowers.
After midnight, I looked to see how much rain had fallen on Saturday: 4.36 inches! And 8.55 since this storm began.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
Wow! That’s a lot of rain!
I’ll have to read that flower book. My first choice for a garden would be endless varieties of tomatoes, but otherwise it would be cool to have flowers all over. I have to get busy this year!
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If you are making any kind of new garden area, I recommend the book Gardening from Scratch by Ann Lovejoy.
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Floret flower farm (that’s the book about flower gardens) uses little tomatoes on the stem in bouquets.
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You really did have some rain! The tulips and daffodils are looking pretty. It will be fun to see that little maple tree grow.
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Wow! Splashabout is right! We had practically a monsoon here, we sat inside all day yesterday and listened to it lashing the windows. Our cat Ronin gets upset at kitties meowing on the TV too.
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My back yard is presently a series of lawn ponds, and worse this April than most years. I have yet to transition from winter wellies to sneakers when I garden.
On the bright side destructive lawn chafer beetle grubs cannot swim, so the yard remains unscathed from that cycle of damage.
I like the multi coloured adirondack chair. A beacon of brightness on gloomy days!
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I don’t remember ever having this much standing water in mid April.
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Yes, you have ‘some’ rain.
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That is a really bogsy wood and a bogsy lawn and a bogsy path. What misery. I hope things take a turn for the better really promptly.
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Thank you, Mr T!
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