Saturday, 23 July 2022
Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties present:
Our first garden was in Montesano, a town just east of Aberdeen. The home is next to Vessey and Sons contractors and its work yard full of big trucks. How enviable to have such a great source of wonderful rocks (which we assumed, perhaps correctly, were sourced by the Vesseys). As Allan and I tour together, we notice similar and different things.
This was my first foray into rollator touring. I’ve been in many gardens where it would have been a struggle to get through with such a device. This one was a dream to start out in, very easy to navigate.
The front garden is a parklike setting with shrubs and trees and beautiful rocks with pools of bright annuals.
The front entry garden with annual accents segues into a flawless lawn with massive boulders in the center.
At the front of the house, annual color brightens up the weedless beds.
The back garden is set up for entertaining in sun or shade.
The business work yard also has landscaping.
This was the only Montesano garden on the tour. We were now off to Aberdeen, a city that I love. We saw some wonderful old houses as we drove west through Montesano, and I wish we had stopped to photograph them, but the lure of garden touring was too strong to allow for getting sidetracked.
Tangly Cottage Gardening 