Saturday, 20 July 2019
Gardens, Sea and Art tour
presented by the WSU Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties
Ocean Shores

Garden 7: Beauty and the Bay

I had reasons to look forward to this garden. Diane is the aunt of Terri of Markham Farm, and Terri would be co-hosting. I am not playing favourites when I say I liked this garden best.

photo by Evan Bean

along the street

along the street




Allan’s photo

the other side of the front driveway


Kilyn’s photo on instagram…followed by her caption


(Each garden had a sign reminding us of the plant sale at the community garden.)
Note those cool rocks with holes in them. I found some like that in 1991 on Kalaloch Beach.

into the back garden


just inside the gate

Allan’s photo
To our left was the memory garden with mementos including the hard hat and boots worn by Uncle Neil when he helped build the road to Paradise on Mount Rainer.


Allan’s photo




Allan’s photo
On to the back garden. I was already smitten.


To our right, a sunroom/greenhouse.






fire circle

sunroom

Allan’s photo
To our left, vegetables in barrels….







Roses and driftwood…


photo by Evan Bean
roses and agapanthus…



In the corner, a garden boat.


Then a mossy burbling rock…

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..and a driftwood gate.


photo by Evan Bean



Outside the gate, a view of North Bay:


Looking back at the house:



fire circle

Allan’s photo


On the deck:








Allan’s photo



Leaving the deck…

…we explored the rest of the bayside garden, a separate-feeling area to the right of the driftwood gate.





path to a gate



Allan’s photo



Allan’s photo

the bay side of the house

Twin frogs instead of lions flank the doorway.




another burbling rock



Allan’s photo

wheelbarrows and probably pots of spring bulbs beside the house
We still had not seen it all; we next found the enclosed garden at the front of the house.







a little pond
You might recognize this from the garden tour poster.


photo by Evan Bean








a beautiful front porch

a woman after my own heart in many ways
We had found Terri in the front garden courtyard and had a good chat. Because her aunt was out touring other gardens, we did not get to meet her, but I know Terri will tell her how much we loved her garden.
Kilyn and Peter had arranged a tailgate teatime for four with homemade scones (Peter’s) and cookies and small sandwiches. What a delight. We were joined by Evan and Ann.

Allan’s photo
We loaded up plants that Ann had brought for me to purchase from two nurseries she works for (propagating plants): Secret Garden Growers and Cistus Nursery.
While Kilyn and Peter went on ahead to the next (and last) garden, I just had to have one more walk through the Lemke garden because I loved it so much. When we finally were about to tear ourselves away, Teresa from the Planter Box arrived, much to our surprise and pleasure.

She had manage to wrangle two days off from her garden center, so of course we all extended an invitation to her to come tour Markham Farm garden with us on Sunday. We left her chatting with Terri and departed for the final tour garden.

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