Wednesday, 10 October 2018
The Depot Restaurant
We did nought at the Depot but a light deadheading and window box watering.
Diane’s Garden
The weather for the first part of the work day was almost uncomfortably warm.
I pulled over half of the tired sweet peas off of the roadside picket fence.
The big trucks passing by were extra scary to me today because I do want to live long enough to finish reading my Marion Cran books.
In the back garden, I used to plant Helichrysum ‘Limelight’ to scramble through the barberry. The shrub has gotten so big in its barrel that this year I planted Limelight in front in a separate pot.
That barberry predates my time on this job.
Allan deadheaded the raised box garden and counted over 1200 deadheads along the way.
In my own garden, I have quit deadheading the cosmos weeks ago.
Holly watched Allan at work.
The Red Barn
I was relieved to see (and pet) Cosmo the barn cat.
The Planter Box
We stopped in to purchase some more potting soil and some bulb food. The pumpkins have arrived!
Klipsan Beach Cottages
We did a couple of hours of serious fall clean up. After maybe two more sessions, we will have the garden all cut back and plants somewhat labeled for the new owners and new manager. It feels odd to know this year is our last fall clean up here.
Next time, we will dig up some lilies for Mary and Denny to take to their new home. Many of the lilies came out of my mother’s garden when we sold her house in 2010.
I will miss Bella, and the sister cats Timmie and Sarah, and Mary and Denny, much more than I will miss the garden. Fortunately, it looks as if they might be living just half an hour from Ilwaco, only ten minutes further (in another direction) than they are now.
At home, I unloaded three wheelbarrows of compost debris from our trailer—but first, I shared a snack of cheese with a friend.
Along with dinner and our far from highbrow Wednesday shows (Survivor, Modern Family), I almost finished Marion Cran’s Gardens of Character. I was just too tired to make it through the last three chapters.
That’s good news you saw Cosmo the barn cat! Wish the roadside garden was the “inside the fence” garden. I love seeing the cute dogs. Love the pumpkins, too!
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I wish it was inside, too. It’s my Danger Garden 😀
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When does acidanthera normall bloom? I would have thought that they were summer flowers, no for autumn.
Also, what is tiger eye sumac for? Is it just for autumn color? We grow none of those types of sumacs here, although African sumac used to be a popular small tree. (I rather dislike it, and it has no autumn color.) I saw sumac growing wild in Oklahoma, but did not see it in color.
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Acidanthera blooms in autumn here.
Tiger Eye is popular because its foliage is golden all year. It suckers like crazy.
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So the sumac could work like the yellow smoke tree. I happen to like the yellow smoke tree, but it can look a bit cliche. Sumac would be something quite different here.
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Yellow smoke tree is pretty rare in my world; here at the beach, I’m the only one I know who has one. It’s definitely used a great deal in Portland.
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Oh, of course. The weather is coastal. I seem them doing well in the Santa Clara Valley but not so much on the coast. There is a business downtown with a pair of yellow smoke tree with a pair of burgundy smoke tree. It is not as unappealing as it sounds.
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It sounds ok to me.
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Yay! I was getting worried about Cosmo the barn cat! Aren’t those pumpkins amazing colors!
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Our dead heading season is over. We are into digging up.
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Deadheading season is over here too. There are no geranium or gaura blooms. Amazing what a difference one zone makes.
You said that you will not miss the KBC garden….are there any past gardens that you did miss, still miss?
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In some ways, yes. Laurie’s garden, Jo’s garden, Golden Sands (what I miss is making a garden paradise for old folks, now it is lawn again and Marilyn’s garden. And my mom’s garden which is also lawn now. And my two former gardens. But I do not miss being overbooked.
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