Wednesday, 10 July 2019
With continuing rain, it was a good day to visit two local nurseries.
The Planter Box
The Planter Box has Cotinus ‘Golden Spirit’. I would get one if I were you.
The Basket Case Greenhouse
The Basket Case has a selection of large Japanese maples.
The nursery visits were mostly social although I did acquire a bag of grit. a bag of soil, and a blue hardy impatiens.
I was thrilled at the continuing rain and did not at all mind doing some work in it.
Long Beach
We checked on the city hall garden.
Sidewalk tiles by Renee O’Connor:
And we checked on Fifth Street Park.
We would not have to water the port gardens or any more planters this week!
Sara and Matt’s garden
On the way home, we visited a Seaview edible and native plant garden to see its progress. It was just beginning when we last visited.
Jet entertained us, or vice versa, while we had coffee in the living room.
at home
I had time to read some more of my current book…
and to watch an episode of Springwatch on Britbox.
We had delicious chard and peas from Sara’s garden for our dinner.
Thanks to the rain doing our watering for us, we now have a four day weekend.
That looks like quite enough rain for the moment.
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I think so, too. Till next week when I’m tired of watering again.
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After the last few hot, dry summers, we have been loving the rain, too! We are back to a heat wave tomorrow, though. Your Post Office and City Hall gardens are looking wonderful. I like how Sara and Matt’s red garden boxes match the blossoms of some of their perennials. Jet is so cute!
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Thank you! Yes Jet is a darling.
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One plant that I really liked in the Pacific Northwest was the native vine maple. It was a nice alternative to the all too common Japanese maple, which (although I used to grow them on the farm) I dislike. Vine maples are no more tolerant of the arid climate here, but I like them just because they are NOT Japanese maples.
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