Wednesday, 4 July 2018
We continued our garden tour day with a relaxing late afternoon and evening at
The Bayside Garden.
Here is their map of their garden. You can see this park-like collectors’ garden on July 21 when it is on the local garden tour; tickets available here.
rhododendron trio by the front door
The new boxes right along the property line are in the next door garden, which will also be on the tour.
John
the irrigation pond
After the earlier part of the day had been hot and muggy, we now had a cooling and quite pleasant rain.
There are many plants from Xera Plants in this garden, and Xera owner Paul Bonine got to see how they are faring at the coast.
John and Paul
Evan, Paul, and Ann
deer protection
Evan botanizing
Steve says “Bartlettina sordida (Dirty Thoroughwort or Blue Mist Flower) — Mexico native; Rare in cultivation!”
This shiny little fellow is R. ‘Rwain’ (rhododendron without an important name)
Paul, Steve, Ann
R. sinogrande
Allan’s photo
R. rex ssp. fictolacteum
dogwood by the pond, close up
R. ‘Grandma’s Hat’
That’s Hydrangea ‘Lemon Daddy’
R. makinoi
my favourite: R. degronianum ssp yakushimanum x R. pachysanthum
newly planted area
Rhododendron ‘Cupcake’
other side of tidal stream
Acer platanoides ‘Rezak’
ladies in waiting
on the pump house roof
We repaired to the east side patio and sat.
our view
a gift from a friend
Ann and Paul
delicious morsels. The flower pot arrangement was also a gift from a friend.
martinis
Ann, Evan, and Paul were going to see the fireworks in Long Beach at dusk, and we had been touring for so long that they did not have time to go back to Ann’s family vacation house in Naselle (half an hour away). Steve and John kindly rustled up a delicious pasta dinner to keep us all fortified.
photo by Ann Amato (Evan, John, Steve, Paul, me)
The end of a perfect day:
Steve’s photo: me, Allan, Evan (Plant Lust), Paul (Xera Plants), John (Bayside Garden), Ann (Spiffy Seeds/Cistus Nursery)
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
I like these peninsula gardens more than the Seattle ones. These seem more casual and inviting, not trying so hard to be special. Or maybe it’s the grey backdrop, which I find soothing. In any case, thank you for sharing all these today!
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A good sized pond is an asset to any garden.
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I also like them better and I also liked the ones we toured Saturday near Aberdeen, in Grayland and Markham, better.
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I also enjoy your areas gardens and am looking forward to seeing them on the garden tour next weekend! Thanks for sharing your perfect day of garden touring. I literally waited for each blog to come out as I sat out the scorcher we are having today. Hope it cools down by next weekend. I cant wait to visit the boat yard garden, Shelburne and Oysterville too. We are doing our own “Skyler Tour” of all our favorite places you feature in your blog in addition to the local garden tour.
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Nice! You will get to see Steve and John’s garden! Be sure to say hi! We are going to a different tour in Tillamook, Oregon, that day, because we are already familiar with all but one of this year’s gardens. Todd does the work on one of them so it is also bound to be good!
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When we grew it, we referred to Rhododendrons sinogrande as ‘loquat’. tee hee.
What is that yellow conical shrub that looks like a lemon cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa of some sort)?
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I’ll ask!
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