Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Tuesdays have become the day that we make the rounds of the small jobs and sometimes the Long Beach parks.
Norwood garden
Two doors down, we weeded and deadheaded.
My decision to weed turned out to be a good one. I had forgotten it was Oregon Tuna Classic in Ilwaco this weekend, a fishing tournament that benefits the local food bank, and the Norwoods had a lot of guests. I am glad the garden looked good!
The Red Barn
We watered and weeded extra well because the Long Beach Rodeo would be this weekend at the Saddle Club next door. I am sure the event spills over onto the Red Barn grounds with extra horses and riders getting ready.
I picked off this perfectly good flower.
That is pre-emptive deadheading. The flowers only last for a day, and more will come on for the weekend.
Diane’s garden
Of course, I felt sad because my very good, very elderly canine friend Misty is no more.
The septic vault garden:
The roadside garden:
The Planter Box
We made a quick excursion to The Planter Box to get some plants to replace the shrubs that we’d removed from Mike’s garden. I found some excellent lavenders.
Long Beach
We tidied the Veterans Field garden and noticed the clever way the city crew lawn mower moved the picnic tables.
We finished weeding the beach approach garden. The wildflowers did grow from seed but are awfully small.
Our very good friend Mitzu, former member of the Anchorage Cottages staff (as were we), came by to say hello.
Boreas Inn
I figured we would do some light weeding and deadheading and be home early.
Imagine my horror when I walked around just to look at the entry garden and remembered that, when we had visited with Kilyn and Peter last Thursday, I had promised to trim the hardy fuchsia that had gotten beaten down by rain. Susie appeared and had lots of ideas about pruning other plants, as well, so my big plan to get home and start blogging about the Ocean Shores tour went out the window.
We decided to have a reward dinner at
The Depot Restaurant.
After dinner, we had another look at Jessica Schlief’s gorgeous new plantings at the Sou’wester Lodge.
This poppy! I think it might be ‘Amazing Grey.’
It made me kind of sad that I had not taken on this job when I was offered it last year; I turned it down because the owner wanted mostly native plants! Clearly, Jessica is planting what she loves, not just natives. It would have been fun to make a garden at the Sou’wester again, because it was my first garden when I moved here. However, I also don’t have time, and Jessica is a local gardener I greatly admire so I love seeing what she has done.
We got home as the sun was setting.
The Sou’wester – what an incredibly funky place. I would love to be the gardener there with full rein on eclectic creativity.
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Hope to see you caravan camping there some day!
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I definitely like that poppy.
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The depot dinner and peach cobbler looks delicious! Love the color of the poppy.
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Depot is deeelicious always.
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