18 August, part one: the little jobs

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

The Depot Restaurant

The Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ and Coreopsis ‘Flower Tower’ are mystifyingly shorter than usual this year.

Oh! I think I know why. We usually add some mulch in early spring but due to being non-essential during that time, I’m pretty sure that this year we did not.

Patti’s garden

We just stop here for a quick visit between jobs each week and don’t even do enough to charge for, just some light deadheading, and a biscuit for Stella…

…and a chat with our old friend Patti…

…and some garden admiration. I am really pleased with how much of this garden I grew from seed.

Among my seed grown plants, Scabiosa ‘Black Knight’, two morning glories, cosmos, bachelor buttons, painted sage, ratibidia, red amaranth.

The Red Barn

Our good friend Cosmo the barn cat made an appearance.

Diane’s garden

Misty got her biscuit.

The septic vault garden…

…and the ever exciting roadside garden.

I love this Chocolate Streamers sweet pea, which I accidentally picked. Finally we have some sweet peas in this garden, after a setback from lawn weed killer drift.

The Boreas Inn

Just before we started Diane’s garden, I had gotten a text from Susie who was desperate for mulch. Fortunately, we were close to The Basket Case Greenhouse and a phone call to Roxanne got her to open the gate for us so that we could pick up some Harvest Supreme.

I had been planning to do some mulching in Long Beach later with some of their new mulch pile and wasn’t sure now if we would have time. The beachy gardens of the Boreas, always a challenge because of sand, deer, and salt wind, definitely looked better. The beach is just a long walk down that path.

Next, the Long Beach part of our long Tuesday.