Vegetables and Flowers Arrive and Langley's On Its Way to Becoming A Blooming Garden Town

It's official, with a drop off in my driveway. The very generous folks at Log House Plants (wholesale plant grower, grafter extraordinaires in Cottage Grove Oregon) backed their big delivery truck up to my little driveway in Langley and dropped off their contribution to the Langley Main Street Garden Initiative. Along with the Whidbey Island Garden Tour, Log House Plants is helping with the greening of Langley, a project of the Langley Main Street Association.

We're starting with sprucing up, adding infrastructure, and planting vegetables, fruit and flowers, at the garden at the City Hall on 2nd Street. Raised beds, an arbor, bean teepee, and pollinator pathway prominade will invite visitors and locals in to enjoy the little space next door to the public library and across the street from Useless Bay Coffee Company, the hottest spot in town, with its own beautiful gardens.

Many thanks to Log House Plants for this exciting assortment of plants that includes 'Flamingo Pink' Swiss chard, 'Golden Sweet' edible snow peas, 'Tom Thumb' dwarf snow peas, and herbs from rosemary through parsley and Greek oregano. The new garden will be fragrant - there are sweet peas involved. And it'll be showy, with those golden snow peas, and lots of sunflowers. Log House sent us 'Golden Alexandria' alpine strawberries to trim out the beds...can't you picture kids poking through the sunny yellow leaves of these little berry plants to find the intensely tasty little berries? That'll be summer in Langley...

Here's the lovely mix of edibles and flowers from Log House Plants (all are available in area nurseries - their truck had many  more deliveries to make around the island and in Seattle...)

Bridget standing guard over the artichokes, lettuces, kale and chard....on a sunny day in the driveway...