Thanksgiving on Shaw Island 2021

Bushels of thanks to all the support crew
who took time to visit the Gatehouse stand
this past year. The plant talk is always inspiring 
 while seed sales fund new plants for the 
 woodland garden to sustain 
 the birds, bees, pollinators, and their people.

 

NOVEMBER ONE

Summer is leaving town with
Persicaria (Fleeceflower) 
holding on.
 Photograph on Shaw Island
 One November 2021.
One day following our first frost of the year.
Gatehouse Garden,
Reefnet Bay Road, Shaw Island,
San Juan Archipelago, WA.

"As one fine gardener of England put it, his was a garden made by doing unnecessary things that he could not afford at the wrong time of the year."

Courtesy of, Henry Mitchell on Gardening. Boston/ New York. Houghton Mifflin. 1998
From the Gatehouse Garden library.