Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Depot Restaurant
We checked on the watering, although not the window boxes because we were in a hurry with much planned for today.
The Red Barn Arena
This little pot by the barn door looked good.
The first section of garden looked good.
But further on, Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ was drooping from lack of watering. The same thing happened last year, and I this year I decided it had to go.
I give up on the idea of yellow sunflowers by a red barn. I have to rethink and plant only the most drought tolerant plants here.
I left a little bit of it by a barrel. They get watered a bit more regularly and so some water might spill over.
I need to remove that coreopsis and replace with something that needs minimal water. This particular barrel used to get watered more regularly…
We then went next door to…
Diane’s garden
Basket Case Greenhouse
It’s hard to drive by without stopping.
Deb’s garden
We took a break to tour two gardens: Steve and John’s bayside garden and the work going on at Deb’s garden (formerly the Barclay garden), where Dave and Melissa (Sea Star Gardening) have been working hard for the new owner.
Next door is Steve and John’s Bayside Garden. We walked through it before returning to work. That self guided tour will be our next post; their garden always deserves its own space.
Klipsan Beach Cottages
This year, we did not get around to cutting back a native grass on the edge of the woodsy swale. I asked Allan to just dig it out, which I have thought of doing every year.
There is some talk that if Mary and Denny move away after retiring, we might take Sarah and her brother Timmy.
After grooming the garden, I took some photos for the Klipsan Beach Cottages Facebook page.
On the way south, we stopped at…
The Planter Box
I sought and acquired a pineapple sage.
Shelburne Hotel
Allan screwed some wire between trellis and big flower pots to help mitigate the windsail effect on the trellises.
I trimmed back the big sanguisorba that I had transplanted from KBC last week; it had just kept on looking a bit wilty around the edges.
Port of Ilwaco
We watered several of the gardens along Howerton Avenue.
Montana Mary had asked why we call one little garden “the driveover garden”. Here it is, a tiny bed between big parking lots and driveways. Big trucks drive over it sometimes.
Another tiny bed by the port office:
Linaria purpurea (toadflax) seeds itself around but is not really up to the harsh conditons:
The Depot Restaurant
We had our North Beach Garden Gang dinner tonight. On the way in to the restaurant, I saw that the window boxes were not getting watered. (Roxanne from The Basket Case plants them up and we care for them, relying on the sprinkler system to water them.) This led to a flurry to Allan watering them with a jug of water that we carry for emergencies, me fretting over them, and texts to various people.
Finally, dinner. It was burger night. We are thankful at this time of year for restaurants that let us dine at eight. Restaurants that close at eight are no good to us now.
Annuals planting time is over except for at home, where I soon have to plant in my garden two six packs of painted sage and tomatoes and cukes from the Planter Box.
An action packed…and long…day for you. So much to do, and not enough hours in the day.
Diane has a nice collection of containered gardens.
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You certainly get to enjoy some nice meals to reward you for all that work! Thanks for wide view of driveover garden — it’s so pretty! Glad it survives the rough treatment it can get.
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The array of raised beds is very impressive.
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It will be interesting to follow.
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I love all this beauty you take care of around Ilwaco. You all work hard!
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Thank you.
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