Saturday, 20 July 2019
Gardens, Sea and Art tour
presented by the WSU Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties
Ocean Shores
Garden 8: Fruit, Berries and Roses
Allan’s photo
A path winds through front garden trees…
…to a fenced side yard full of fruits and veg. I am always impressed with a successful kitchen garden, especially in a maritime climate. Kitchen gardening is something at which I do not excel.
a serious deer fence (Allan’s photo)
strawberries
Allan’s photo
lemons and oranges
berries
Allan’s photo
roses and grapes
at the back of the grapes
Allan’s photo
Allan’s photo
inside the green mesh house
Allan’s photo
potted paulownia tree
into the back garden…
Allan’s photo
Allan’s photo
..where a path led off into the woods.
We returned to the front garden and made our plans with Peter and Kilyn for an early dinner.
Peter contemplates the front garden
Allan and I waited till Teresa caught up and then we all met at…
Galway Bay Irish Pub
Allan’s photo
We enjoyed our meal and could see why an Ocean Shores friend had recommended this place.
bangers and mash
potato soup
Just before we left, we found that if we went through the Guinness door…
…we would come upon an dining patio that looked most appealing.
It lacked the large table that we had needed for our excellent feast.
We parted ways, till meeting again tomorrow morning at Markham Farm.
pink petunias on the way to Markham
The last page of the tour booklet:
Still to come before returning to the workaday world: Markham Farm, of course, and a return visit to Cindy’s garden, one of our favourites from last year’s tour.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 
This tour seems to have a little of everything. I envy people who can pull of a veggie garden well. I’ve not quite been that successful. Those fairy houses are sweet. I’m guessing the citrus gets pulled inside the greenhouse in the winter.
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Yes, the citrus must go inside. I’m hoping to do better at growing food to save money when I semi retire. I used to grow salad greens in my seattle garden with some success but I do hate seeing slugs and snails on anything I’m going to eat.
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This was a lovely vegetable garden, they had enough perimeter trees for privacy, but placed where they would not cast too much shade where sun was needed for optimum growing conditions. Tricky balance!
Memory serves the little fountain in the Caywood garden is solar powered. Love to try one, but I have never had much luck with solar lights lasting beyond a year or two.
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I also believe it is was solar powered.
You should be writing a blog because you excel at describing gardens. I especially like what you wrote about the one just before this one.
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That is some fence!
As much as I enjoyed growing citrus in the earlly 1990s, I do not think I would grow them in that particular region. Isn’t that considerable work?
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It would be, you’d have to winter them in a greenhouse. But Monty Don does it on Gardeners’ World, so why not we? 😉
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I would prefer to grow fruits that do not need such effort, which is why we grow citrus anyway.
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