Saturday, 21 July 2018
2018 Spade and Wade Garden Tour
Sponsored by the Tillamook County Master Gardener Association
After garden four, we realized that we had about a half hour drive to the next two gardens, so we had better put lunch at Hidden Acres Greenhouse next on our agenda.
I had been to Hidden Acres before, on a visit to the Sylvia Beach Hotel and looked forward to revisiting. It was only two minutes from the previous garden.
Hidden Acres Greenhouse and Café, Tillamook
In the café, where we had our lunch:
I remember loving this café and shop, and I still do.
I want this chandelier, but without the bed springs, which would get too dusty.
Allan found a cute pop up book with which I amused myself till lunch arrived, which was soon.
Allan went to get me my specs so I could find a certain rabbit, but then our tasty lunch came and we forgot.
We then were off on a drive to Cape Meares.
The drive looks lovely. I found it nerve-wracking because of my recurring nightmare of going off a road into water.
It is curvier than it looks, and I was so glad to get onto the cape. (Going back, on the inside, was not too bad.) Allan noted that the water was too shallow for kayaking.
Garden Five: A Walk in the Woods, Cape Meares
I used to have a crinodendron at my old garden, from Clarke Nursery, wish I still had it.
And now into the woods we go. I passed the garden owner sitting with tour guests at a table talking about wild critters, including elk who come into the back garden.
The tree below had been cut decades before and other trees had grown around the stump.
I turned back from a steep path and Allan later went down it.
Back in the garden, there really were artichokes with the aprons.
I regret I was not in that part of the garden at that moment to meet that dog!
Barbara had put many of her favourite gardening books out.
On the front porch:
Just a few blocks down the street is the ocean.
We now drove a block over and a couple of gravel blocks uphill to a garden that I could hardly bear to leave at closing time. It is glorious, and will be tomorrow morning’s post.
the next time you are here, I am going to share my favorite garden books with you.
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I look forward to that!
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Well, of course, these are lovely gardens, but now I am thinking about that hummingbird cake! I’ve never had it, but I hear it’s tasty. I’ll bet it’s named because hummingbirds come to it to get a sweet taste.
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