Sunday, 21 July 2019
Cindy’s Garden
Terri of Markham Farm took Allan and me, Teresa, and Kilyn and Peter to see an excellent garden that had been on last year’s garden tour.
Carl has built all of the buildings on the property. All Cindy has to do is come up with an idea and he makes it appear.
We moved on to the shade garden.
She swears by a technique called winter sowing. I must read up on it.
She explained how she found an easier method than milk jugs, but I can’t remember because the whole process was new to me. Something about using pots instead, maybe…Oh I do wish I could remember.
I just about wept over the beauty of that primrose last year.
Cindy found the wood base of the table below in an alley in the nearby city of Aberdeen!
We emerged from the shade onto the big lawn with sunny borders along three sides.
We thanked Cindy for opening her spectacular garden to us and then we all returned for one last hour or two at
Markham Farm.
Terri had made clam chowder and served it with cheese and crackers, crudités, and watermelon slices, as we sat around the fire circle on the deck.
I took one last walk around the deck…
Down by the barn, Teresa and Terri and I gleaned some seedlings from the European bladdernut tree; Teresa had also collected some hydrangea cuttings.
The back of our van was full of plants from the garden tour plant sale, and the plants that Ann had brought me yesterday, and some from Terri today.
I felt deeply verklempt to part ways with Kilyn and Peter…just till next summer’s tour season, I hope. They would have a long drive back to Canada on Monday. After they had driven away to their Ocean City campground, I found a bottle of wine from them on the seat of our car, one that I greatly enjoyed with dinner for the next week.
Next year’s WSU Master Gardeners tour will be in Satsop and Montesano areas. It’s the best tour on the coast. I’m already looking forward to it and hoping for a reunion with good friends.
What a nice “plant haul”. I am SO jealous! I like all of the shacks but the red one especially entices me. What an assortment of plants Cindy grows and that found table base is a treasure. Thanks for letting us see these gardens through your & Allan’s lens..
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I was in awe at how healthy and in prime condition so many of Cindy’s plants are. Nothing looked distressed or in decline – she has a very good green thumb. I recall her saying she plans on two new huge herbaceous borders for the upper level – I can only imagine how traditionally English garden spectacular that will look.
And despite all the lavish attention both Peter and Allan gave the construction of the beautiful gazebo, did either one of them mention something similar in the future of our gardens? Hah! 😄 We live in hope!
It was a great time of garden touring and friendship!
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I absolutely love your posts of garden tours!!!
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I absolutely love your posts of garden tours!!
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Thank you. We hope to go on one more tour this year, in Castle Rock.
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‘newly shaked’ shed means something completely different in Trona now.
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Sure does!!
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