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Description of a passion­
ate
gardener:
An
intense
interest in and love of nature,
optimism,
enthusiasm,
being
inguisitive to research and
learn more about all plant
life, not being discouraged by
the trials and errors due to
conditions of weather or the
aches and pains caused by hard
labor, and a determination to
attain one's goals. Being able
to visualize the dreams of a
beautiful garden before the
first spadeful of soil is dug
is also a part of what makes a
true gardener. Are these traits
inherited through one's genes?
Beth Holland pondered on this
question and added, "They must
be, as my three sisters and I
are third generation passionate
gardeners; we have followed in
our mother's and grandmother's
footsteps."
As a young girl, Holland
was interested in the many wild
flowers she observed as she
walked along the banks at the
ocean's edge in Cannon Beach,
especially in the area of the
old Warren Hotel before the
Tolovana
Inn and the State
wayside parking lot were built.
At that time she was not aware
of the names of the different
plants, and her interest led
her to enroll in Utah State
College. The studies offered
were
plant
and
greenhouse
production and she also gained
even more practical knowledge
by working with the campus
landscape crews.
In 1980 when Beth and Mike
Morgan married they moved into
the home Mike built in the
dense forest in the Tolovana
area of Cannon Beach. Morgan
designed and built a greenhouse
on the top floor and this is
where Holland first started to
grow trays of seeds to use
later for landscaping the area
around the house.
She soon
learned what would grow best in
the forest and what would sur­
vive so near the elements of
coastal
environment.
Trips
taken to Europe,
especially
England,
strongly influenced
her preference for plants and
styles of gardens.
A trip to England with
Grace Dinsdale led each of them
to start a flower business.
Dinsdale
now
owns
a
huge
nursery
called
"Blooming."
Holland
and
friend
Phyllis
Brown raised many flats of
flowers
using
a
friend's
greenhouse plus Holland's in
her home,
and they planted
boxes and pots full of the
flowers
and
displayed
the
plantings for sale wherever
they could. Laughingly, Holland
said they even packed the sta­
tion wagon with the tailgate
down,
displaying
the
many
planted containers to sell to
people traveling by on Highway
26. They also sold some in the
parking lot of Don's Market in
Tolovana and a few to Raintree
and Lyle's Nursery in Seaside
and
to
Saturday
Market
in
Portland. This was the begin­
ning of her business, which she
named "Holland's Flowers."
In 1981 Holland opened a
flower shop using two spaces:
one behind Pat's Coffee Shop
using a greenhouse left from
the
former
"Mulberry
Bush"
flower shop that had been there
years ago, and an open space
between El Mundo for Women and
the pharmacy that is now the
Cookie Company. Later, as the
open space was enclosed with
George Vetter's new buildings,
"Village Center," she moved the
flower shop behind Pat's Coffee
Shop.
Holland's Flowers was a
fantasy shop for all gardeners
and flower lovers. There were
trays of plant material, herbs
and large varieties of all
kinds of perennials and annu­
als,
and hardy shrubs like
Lavatera (Tree Mallow). This
shrub became a familiar plant
and because of its beauty many
locals and visitors bought them
for their gardens throughout
the Northwest. Holland told of
finding the original plant in
Dinsdale's "Blooming" nursery
and how she started many more
plants from it by propagating
stem cuttings. She also took
cuttings from old, hardy roses
that grew throughout the town,
saving some of these plants
from extinction. The greenhouse
and two other buildings dis­
played potted hothouse plants,
a variety of containers and
garden decor for homes and
gardens, cut bouguets of mixed
flowers, some she grew like
sweet peas, cosmos, delphinium,
alstroemeria added with other
varieties she bought from the
flower markets in Portland. The
shop was successfully run for
many years and sadly missed
when it closed in 1994.
Through those years Hol­
land started other businesses,
floral bouquets for weddings
and other events, and became a
landscape
designer
for
new
developments like George Vet­
ter's Village Center,
Ecola
Square,
the
Criterion,
and
later Tuckman's Cannon Beach
Hotel and Courtyard and the
complex
of
Hain's
Bakery,
Cannon Beach Art Gallery and
Cottage Apartments.
She has
continued t o 4maintain some of
these
commercial
landscapes
with the help of employees.
through Portland State's Hay­
stack
summer
program.
For
information on available class­
es , nursery stock or the need
for landscape and garden de­
signs, call Holland's Flowers,
1-503-436-2574.
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In 1990 Beth and husband
Mike bought 3.6 acres east of
the property where their home
is located to develop a nurs­
ery. On the cleared area, with
the help of their friend Sean
Ohrenich, they built a 30' x
60' greenhouse. The greenhouse
was
designed
in
the
older
traditional
style,
with
an
extended area that is used for
an office. On the south side of
the building are cold frames
for holding more mature or
hardier plants. Close to the
greenhouse is a huge stump left
from
first
cutting
of
old
growth spruce in the early
1900's. Holland has added plant
material to enhance the histor­
ic stump. A 4' deep holding
pond
supplied
by
rainfall,
which is filled most of the
year, is landscaped with water
lilies and circled with other
water-loving plants. The 3.6
acres are enclosed with a high
elk fence,
attractive gates
designed by Holland and built
by Ohrenich, one double gate at
the entrance and a moon gate at
a path that leads through the
forest to their home nearby.
The grounds are almost com­
pletely
landscaped
with
terraced beds on the slopes and
flagstone walks laced through
the many flower beds that hold
nursery stock.
Holland and Morgan are
aware of the dangers of using
pesticides and herbicides. The
nursery grows free from these
dangers,
letting
the
more
healthy
environment
of
the
natural balance of nature be
the
protector.
She
used
a
carpet weed barrier under all
the paths and graveled areas.
(next to the Bistro, behind Laurel's Wines)
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Holland recently has been
contracted to design landscape
plans for two sites in Astoria.
One is the Mill Pond project in
the Gateway area. The 13 acres
around the pond will include
parks and public streets. The
other is the old Fairgrounds on
20th Street.
During the last several
years
Holland
has
taught
classes in garden design and
propagation at her greenhouse,
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