19 May: Long Beach

Thursday, 19 May 2022

Port of Ilwaco

After a rainy Wednesday at home, we started today by planting a stray heather in the port garden by CoHo Charters, where all our stray heathers go.

Below is looking east toward the Beacon RV Park, which is in the news again, here. Regarding what the article says about it being an RV park, not a year rounder place, then why, I wonder, does tax sifter refer to it as an MH (Mobile Home) park. The word HOME means something.

Long Beach

We weeded the Sid Snyder Drive planters.

Silver mounds of santolina…I love their look and their lemony scent.

At the west end, I said to Allan, “Hey, go up on the boardwalk and take a pic of what people see.” So he did.

We planted some penstemon and Verbena bonariensis (that I’d grown) in the garden on the east side of Fifth Street Park.

It is still boring. Pickings are slim for perennials at local nurseries due to supply problems.

We dumped debris, picked up some mulch, and Allan weeded in the SW quadrant of Fifth Street Park.

Because the garden was not weeded last spring and summer, the weeds reseeded like crazy.

I went on horsetail patrol in the NW quadrant. The garden would be so much easier without the horsetail.

Tragically, this is AFTER I weeded. I did get that one stray horsetail! The rest leave a rough haze of green.

That bed has three different colors of camassia, whose names I’m too tired to look up: the dark blue one almost done, the light blue at its peak and the white one coming on.

I’ll be adding cosmos soon. And will transplant some California poppies along the front. Feathery foliage helps hide horsetail.

Notes to self: Put some of the green santolina that I have started down this path on either side…

Needs more plants to camouflage the horsetail.

….and add some of the pale whitey pink Geranium macrorrhizum to these pink ones by the drinking fountain.

I helped Allan finish mulching on the southwest area.

Then we went home, quite shockingly, at four o’clock so that I could do a bit of weeding and plant sale sorting in my own garden.