Saturday, 20 July 2019
Gardens, Sea and Art tour
presented by the WSU Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties
Ocean Shores
Gardens four and five were next door to each other on one of the canals, joined by a friendly archway. Having a companionable gardening neighbour is my ultimate dream. I am in my mid 60s and feel that every passing year lessens the chances for this one dream to come true. (I like my neighbours on both sides, but none of them are passionate gardeners.)
garden four: A Garden for All Seasons
The front garden:
I bet the bay window room has a beautiful green light inside, just as I like it.
Turning the corner to the side garden:
Under the pergola at canal side is a pond and waterfall.
The sunroom in the back garden, overlooking the sloping garden and the canal, is what dreams are made of. An upper path goes by the sunroom, and the lower path goes by the pergola and canal.
Let’s go to the pergola and the path along the canal.
I think living on the canal would be glorious, especially for Allan and his kayak.
I appreciate that the edge of the water in this garden has long grass and foliage for happy insect life. Someone told Allan that because the canals are stocked with carp to keep the water clean by eating aquatic plants, there are few frogs (carp eat pollywogs, he was told). I am trying to join an Ocean Shores gardening group online to find out if that is true. For more about the carp, read here. For more about plant life in the canals, read here.
The canal path ends at the gunnera.
Looking up at the sunroom:
Sedum-planted steps connect the upper and lower garden paths.
I was surprised to see Nicotiana langsdorfii (center, below) in the hillside bed. The owners must have to go far afield for cool plants; we could not find a garden center in Ocean Shores. The one that we had found online was no longer there.
We’ll take the upper path around the sunroom toward the next garden.
Perhaps I could be a neighbour across the canal in the white house. I would surround it with flowers. We could visit Kim’s garden by boat.
Next: Through an archway into the neighbour’s garden.
Some water always helps a garden. I would like to have a lake.
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This garden is colorful and tidy. The canal makes it dreamy. I *hear* your wish to have gardening neighbors. For years living in Austin, TX, that’s exactly what I dreamed of. I do have gardening neighbors where I live now, but unexpectedly they’re a bit competitive.
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This garden did a lovely job of terracing down the steps and filling with sedums and succulents. This one, and the neighbours, made it easy to envision how enticing gardening on a canal could be.
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The canals are very much on my mind.
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I enjoyed this beautiful garden and view of the canal. Thank you, Skyler and Allan, for sharing your photos! I could picture you in the white house, too, with your new garden, and Allan boating in the canal.
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🙂 it’s a dream!
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