Author: Dauna Koval

Orchids

Orchids:   When the weather starts turning wet and windy, it is time for me to start paying attention to my poor orchids that have been left pretty much alone all summer long. That means it is time for me to pay attention to my poor orchids that have been left pretty much alone since our […]
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Holiday Plants

Holiday Plants:   The holiday season is upon us: Halloween, Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Christmas.  Although the stores have skipped to Christmas, in Ocean Shores, we still like to remember the other holidays. My neighbors across the lake have put up some purple lights.  Last year their Christmas light display put my husband into Griswold […]
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Ocean Shores Vegetable Experiments

Ocean Shores Vegetable Experiments:   Garden By The Sea (GBTS) operates Demo Beds for the Master Gardeners of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.  We maintain four 4×8 foot beds in which we attempt various gardening experiments utilizing in the difficult climate of Ocean Shores.  One bed contains perennial flowers that attract pollinators such as bees, butterflies, […]
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Garden by The Sea, a Community Garden

Garden by The Sea, a Community Garden:   Ocean Shores is lucky to have a wonderful resource for all gardeners:  The Garden by The Sea (GBTS,) a thriving non-profit, community garden located behind the Galilean Retreat Center at: 824 Ocean Shoes Blvd. It was started 11 years ago by Sushila and Robert Ravard.  The idea was […]
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Garden, Sea, and Art

Garden, Sea, and Art:   Ocean Shores is a small but ecologically varied place.  Just six miles long, the city, encompasses at least eight different ecosystems, each with its own mini-climate, soil conditions, and plant life.  To complete this thought, these ecosystems are open saltwater, ocean beaches, tidal salt marshes, freshwater ponds and canals with their […]
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Ocean Shores Flower Experiments

Ocean Shores Flower Experiments:   Ocean Shores is so GRAY.  My sister keeps reminding me:  We live in GRAYS Harbor after all.  What did you expect?  But Central Park isn’t as gray, at least not in May. Remember all those rhodys that line US12 on the way into Aberdeen.  We can grow rhodys here too.  And […]
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