Author: Dauna Koval

Enjoy Your Outdoor Blossoms Indoors

Subtle Shifting in Coastal Fall Colors We are fully into fall. It’s time for the “Shifting of Seasons.” Not really the changing from Summer to Fall. It’s Ocean Shores, after all. We don’t have four real seasons that actually change from one to the next. What we have is a dry, warmer “season” that lasts […]
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Selecting Colorful Fall Flowers

Garden Splash of Fall Colors Fall sneaks its way in here at Ocean Shores as nighttime temps dip into the 40s. It’s still dry though and will generally stay dry through September and sometimes into October. We even have a promise of crisp, sunny, dry fall days. I’m writing this on one of those perfect […]
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Beauty (flowers) and the Beast (deer)

Spring Flowers: My favorite poem, titled “In Just” by E.E. Cummings is about spring and sums up most springs here in Ocean Shores.  It goes: In just – spring when the world is mud – luscious the little lame balloon man – whistles far and wee – and eddy and bill come – running from […]
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Gardening in Hot, Dry Weather

Sun, Stress, and Your Plants By early summer, we typically start to have some unusually hot days in Ocean Shores and other coastal communities. Not only are we not used to this, but our plants are not used to it either. They could definitely use some help from us. The heat causes plant stress on […]
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Garden Carpets

Autumn Is A Great Landscape Planting Time: Shrubs, trees, spring bulbs and many annual flowers can go in now.  The Ocean Shores autumn offers a mild climate, sufficient rains and even a shot of colder temps, all of which favors underground root growth.  Most of what you plant now will hold out a promise of […]
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