Tuesday, 22 May 2018
On the way to work, we saw a darling truck at the gas station.
Shelburne Hotel
We watered. I longed for a day to just weed and edit the garden here. Maybe Thursday.
I did manage to pull the mildewed forget me nots.
Long Beach
Allan did the first watering of the street tree pocket gardens, which always required some digging out of the underground quick connect hose connections, and I did most of the 37 planters.
Ilwaco
Stopped off at home to get the water trailer. The fremontodendron shows how miserably hard the cold wind was blowing.
I almost postponed my part of the watering until I remembered that tonight is Deadliest Catch. It would be embarrassing to have been a weather wimp and then watch hard working crab fishermen from my comfy chair.
Allan hooked up the water trailer and, while he filled it at the boatyard, I began watering the boatyard garden. The north wind had been 20 mph and ever so cold all day. I was lucky that the faucets down the inside of the fence all had hoses hooked up, and none of the hoses were pulled up into boats.
Sadly, I had to trim the Stipa that was hanging over the sidewalk.
The low sunlight made it hard to see the weeds, and the wind was pushing me around like a bully. I managed to weed a bit along the back of the fence where the wind was less strong.
It takes Allan an hour and a half or more to water the Ilwaco route (depending on how well the pump and hose behave). I was awfully glad when he was done so that we could go home.
Allan’s photos while watering the planters and street trees:
While watering the post office garden, Allan saw this hole…
and thought a plant had been stolen. It was just where I had yanked a diseased agastache that I had thought would look so good there….
Another nine hour day.
Deadliest Catch featured an arctic hurricane. I was glad I had not let winds of maybe 25 mph stop me from watering.
I am drinking in the bounty of plants. My irises just opened up this week. Spring has arrived, and soon summer!
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One day I will make room for a stipa, seeing them in your plantings is inspiring.
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They take up surprisingly little room but must not be right by a path because the stems break easily.
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A great shot of the fern in the back garden.
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It is gorgeous there.
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What’s with the rock? Did it come with a website to see where it had been?
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It’s a fad. The name of the “rock group” is on the back. In this case it was Long Beach Ocean Park rocks. Some of them are quite beautiful and it is a treat to find them.
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I wrote an article about the fad when I first started hearing about the rocks in, of all places, Trona, near Death Valley. I started finding them here shortly afterward.
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