Wednesday, 11 july 2018
Red Barn Arena
The garden had been watered! (Yay!) So we only had a bit of deadheading to do.
Diane’s Garden
Next door to the barn, we added a few perennials to Diane’s garden. We are going to just call the septic box garden the raised box garden from now on. Sounds so much nicer.
It is quite variable.
Basket Case Greenhouse
We stopped for a few Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’. I could not resist some echeverrias, as well.
Klipsan Beach Cottages
We spent an hour tidying and then I took photos for the Facebook page. We skipped KBC last week because of the holiday and company. Mary says she could get by with us just every other week, which would be great, but she says “Not yet, though!” This is now our only north end job, and it is a long drive for one hour of work. The cottage cleaning staff also like to weed the paths and beds, so we can be somewhat dispensible, for which I am grateful. It is an odd feeling to work there knowing this longtime job ends in the late autumn, when Denny and Mary retire.
All these years I thought Timmy, Sarah’s sibling, was a boy! Mary and I talked about how I might take ten year old Timmy and Sarah if Mary and Denny move to Arizona. I would love to have them.
Shelburne Hotel
I had had a wee brainstorm. In the back garden, we took the variegated mint out of a low pot and put it into the pot that does not drain well.
Then we made a succulent pot out of the low pot for the one deck that had no plant container.
I laughed when I found myself thinking, “I wish there were some river rock to decorate these pots with.” Of course, the front garden has river rock all along the edge of the path!
I did no evening gardening at home other than watering all my pots and running one sprinkler because the north wind was a ridiculously strong and miserable thirty something miles an hour.
The double flowered cosmos look like they would be too heavy for their wiry stems.
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I think the new name for the garden is a definite improvement.
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Your succulent pot with river rock turned out so cute! Almost as cute as Timmy 🙂
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That’s pretty darn cute!
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