Monday, 20 June 2022
Because it was the Juneteenth holiday, I had such an easy day planned, just some City of Ilwaco gardens. But over the weekend, we’d gotten a call from Patti. After she moved to Portland, the sale of her house fell through, so would we mow the lawn and weed? We are not a mowing business, and it’s a pain to load to mower into our little trailer. Only for Patti!
Susie’s garden
On the way, we stopped at Susie’s Seaview garden to add a few plants along the top of the wall, including a little catmint and some woolly thyme.





Patti’s garden
I had expected the garden to be weedy, and it was. We were shocked to see the lawn. It took three hours to mow front and back (Allan) and three hours to weed the masses of weeds in the three garden beds (me)! Fortunately, there was a dumpster in which to put the many buckets of debris.














Please buy Patti’s darling cottage so we can stop mowing it.
Ilwaco Fire Station
I planted another silver santolina in our volunteer garden where something had been poured on the third full sized one, killing it. It would look even better with five but I am out of starts (maybe).





Ilwaco Post Office and more
I added a couple of penstemon to our volunteer garden, because the cosmos are just sitting there not growing.


Next door, Hattie had added some plants to the handsome big concrete planters next to the Shipwreckords and Moore shop. The red plant in front is the noxious weed Herb Robert or Stinking Bob. I’d forgotten to tell Hattie that it is sorta verboten.

Ilwaco street trees
Our attempted revival of the ten street tree gardens continues, after unskilled volunteers had removed the good perennials from six of the ten tree beds last autumn. It is quite frustrating. The few tree beds that were not messed with are still somewhat full looking but the others are just languishing and feel sparse and scratchy to work in; maybe it is the weather. Like the cosmos, the plants are just not growing.





Time Enough Books
Karla and Scout were just leaving.


We weeded and edited out some tatty old plants and made the so-called dwarf Stipa gigantea more see-through.
















Ilwaco Community Building
This is Allan’s job but I came along just to make it worse by complaining about how much I hate pulling weed grass out of heathers.

