JULY 14, 2016 // 21
Music in the Gardens puts on 10th annual garden tour
LONG BEACH PENINSULA, Wash.
— Enjoy a summer day by
touring private gardens on
Washington’s Long Beach
Peninsula. Music in the
Gardens will hold its 10th
annual Long Beach Peninsula
Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday, July 16.
Seven beautiful gardens
of local area residents will
be on display. Each venue
will provide an opportunity
to talk one-on-one with the
gardeners and discover their
planting and growing secrets.
Relax with hors d’oeuvres
and refreshments as you tour
the grounds while listening
live music.
Gardens this year include
a potted lower garden in
deep Seaview, as well as a
classic and traditional garden
in Long Beach. Ocean Park
gardens feature a Willapa Bay
estate with ponds, waterfalls,
lowers, edibles, berries and
chickens; a 1910 beach cot-
tage built on a 25-foot-wide
lot densely packed with orna-
mentals and edibles; and an
artists’ garden with handmade
pots, bird baths and walk-
ways. Continuing in Ocean
Park is an awarding-winning
bed and breakfast with a vari-
ety of gardens and a Klipsan
Beach garden illed with a
variety of plants focusing on
texture, color and foliage, all
passions of the owners.
Local peninsula musi-
cians will be Barbara Bate,
Brian O’Connor, The Mozart
Chicks and Tom Trudell.
Acustica World Music of
Astoria will perform at a bay
side garden. Terry Robb and
The Winterlings will be com-
MUSIC IN THE GARDENS
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 16
Self-guided tour, Long Beach Peninsula
$20 for adults, children under 18 free
watermusicfestival.com
360-642-2507
PHOTO BY DWIGHT CASWELL
The Music in the Gardens tour will celebrate its 10th annual
garden tour on the Long Beach Peninsula by featuring seven
local gardens on Saturday, July 16. Each garden will ofer re-
freshments and live music for attendees to enjoy.
ing from Portland to perform
in tour gardens.
Astoria artist Noel Thomas
will be painting in the Long
Beach garden of his brother.
Dorota Haber-Lehigh, of
Seaside, will be teaching a
botanical illustrations class in
an Ocean Park garden.
Rafle prizes will include
Explore the land with North Coast Land Conservancy
CLOVERDALE, CANNON BEACH
and SEASIDE — More of North
Coast Land Conservancy’s
free summer On the Land out-
ings are coming up. Advanced
registration is required for
these guided walks on NCLC
property.
You can take a free guided
1.5-mile loop walk on Whalen
Island, an upland in the
middle of Sand Lake estuary,
from 10 a.m. to noon Wednes-
day, July 27.
Sand Lake, in southern
Tillamook County, is consid-
ered Oregon’s best-conserved
estuary, thanks to the efforts
by the state of Oregon and
private land trusts including
NCLC, which owns and man-
ages 215 acres in the northeast
corner of the estuary. Learn
about the ecology at this bar-
built estuary — one of only
four on the Oregon Coast —
and experience for yourself
this unique and unusually
undeveloped estuary.
The walk will be led by
two staff members from North
Coast Land Conservancy:
Communications Coordinator
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Biologist and educator Mike Patterson will lead a walk into
Ecola Creek Forest Reserve July 29.
Naturalist and photogra-
pher Neal Maine will lead an
outing Aug. 5 at Circle Creek
Habitat Reserve.
2-mile round-trip walk into
Ecola Creek Forest Reserve
in Cannon Beach. The land
conservancy helped the city of
Cannon Beach acquire what
has become a 1,040-acre com-
munity forest, preserving much
of the Ecola Creek watershed.
With his keen eye and ear, Pat-
terson will help you spot birds
and identify and better under-
stand the trees and other plants
and animals that characterize
this recovering forest.
The following Friday
morning, Aug. 5, naturalist
Neal Maine will lead what
he calls a “Seaton Watch” at
Circle Creek Habitat Re-
serve. A Seaton Watch is an
opportunity to slow down and
simply observe the natural
world with all your senses.
The two-hour outing will
follow a 0.8-mile nature trail
through a Sitka spruce swamp
at the edge of this 365-acre
conservation area at the south
end of Seaside.
Visit NCLCtrust.org/on-
the-land-summer-outings for
more details or to register.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
(and author of “Day Hiking:
Oregon Coast”) Bonnie
Henderson and Development
Director (and former Tilla-
mook County kayak outitter)
Lorraine Ortiz. Sand Lake is
about a half-hour drive south
of Tillamook or 1.5 hours
south of Seaside.
NCLC is also offering two
ways to experience a recover-
ing coastal rainforest, guided
by expert naturalists.
On Friday morning July
29, biologist and educator
Mike Patterson will lead a
a wooden garden bench built
by Dick Rodlin and a dinner
for eight, hosted by Tom and
Penny Treat in their home, in-
cluding a tour of their garden
and Penny’s new studio.
Tickets are available
online at watermusicfestival.
com or one of the following
locations:
Bay Avenue Gallery,
1406 Bay Ave., Ocean Park;
The English Nursery, Corner
of Highway 101 and 103,
Seaview; and the Oysterville
Store, 3012 Oysterville Road,
Oysterville. Tickets purchased
online must be presented at one
of the above-noted locations to
receive your garden tour map.
Tickets are $20 each.
Children under 18 are free.
Proceeds beneit the Ocean
Beach School District music
programs. The garden tour
is a fundraiser for the Water
Music Society, an organiza-
tion that has been providing
entertainment of high quality
and variety since 1984.
For additional information,
visit the Music in the Gardens
Tour page on Facebook or
contact Nancy Allen at 360-
642-2507.