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Sure, fuzzy critters are cute — until they lop off all your rosesBy SALLY FOXFor The Beachcomber

Gardeners, beware: There are weapons of mass destruction lurking on Vashon. Evidence abounds. You go out to your garden in spring expecting to find a sea of tulips, and instead you discover rows of bare flower stalks. You turn and notice that your young apple trees have been pruned of all their new growth. Then in the corner of your eye you see the hooved culprits, saun-tering away, barely acknowledg-ing your presence.

In summer, the reign of terror continues with a new adversary. You go out to harvest the first five plums off your new plum tree and find a disaster: broken branches, including the tree’s leader, on the ground and, of course, no plums. Your blueberries have also disappeared. Mighty claws have destroyed the fresh finish of woodchips you spread on your garden bed only yesterday; today it looks like a war zone.

How can we peacefully co-exist with our furry assailants in the garden — the deer and the rac-coon that even I can’t help but think are cute? Each summer, Islanders come to our Vashon Master Gardener clinics with tales of woe and questions about how to deal with pesky deer and raccoons.

Rhonda Hart, author of “Deer Proofing Your Yard and Garden,” presents a variety of ways to cope with deer and describes the pros and cons of each. Perhaps you don’t like the look of smelly

From the outside, Kay Longhi’s small, brown home perched above the

north-end ferry terminal seems ordinary, a modest 1975 house with a no-frills architecture.

Step inside, and one experiences a different story.

After an 18-month remodel, the house now boasts dark-stained oak floors, a kitchen with soapstone counters and Turkish stone tiles, walls painted in hues of a warm gold and pale gray and, of course, large, wood-cased windows looking out onto an expansive 180-degree view of Puget Sound.

The living room and dining room spill into the kitchen, creating a bright, airy grand room. A bay window has been installed in the living room, adding to the sense of spaciousness. The kitchen, too, has been punched out just a bit, so that when Longhi is at the kitchen sink she has windows all around her.

As remodels go, it was far from wholesale. The layout remained largely the same; only one interior wall was moved.

And yet, Longhi said, the result feels transformational. “It’s a whole new house,” she said.

Gib Dammann, Longhi’s architect, called it a classic Vashon remodel — a modest house, built years ago as a summer cabin, trans-formed into a place for year-round living, with modern appliances, energy-efficient win-dows, insulation and a touch of elegance.

“It’s a classic model of what happens on this Island — sometimes successfully, and some-times not successfully,” he said.

“There are a large number of Islanders liv-ing in homes full-time that weren’t meant for full-time living,” he added. “We’ve been

dancing with this challenge from generation to generation.”

Longhi takes pride in the fact that she’s rescued a modest cabin and turned it into something that will stand the test of time. But hers was not simply an effort to transform a summer cottage into a beautiful home.

Indeed, for Longhi, it was an intensely per-sonal experience — in part, because of what this cabin meant to her and her family.

Longhi, 62, grew up in the house next-door, where her 90-year-old mother Patricia Longhi still lives. Kay Longhi’s uncle Dudley George built the cabin, and for many years he and his wife Catherine summered there.

It played a central role in her family’s life, she recalled — a place for family gatherings and holiday celebrations as well as a refuge for family members in need of a place to live dur-ing significant transitions.

Five years ago, when her aunt and uncle stopped coming to the house, Kay Longhi and her twin sister Gail realized they didn’t want to see it leave their family, so the two women

A beloved family cabin takes on a new look — but continues to hold sweet memories — after Kay Longhi and her sister undertake a full remodel.

Story and photos byLeslie Brown

Kay Longhi, above, and her sister Gail bought their aunt and uncle’s cabin in part so Kay could be next door to her childhood home, where her mother still lives. Her kitchen counters (top photo) are flush with the windows — no backsplash needed. Below, a lamp she purchased during a year she spent in Thailand adds to her home’s elegance.

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When they describe their sprawling, year-round garden, Sally Fox and Steve Brown say the sunny five-plus acres near Point Robinson actually hold a

collection of 15 gardens, each one different. Their home is located at the center and looks out onto the colorful ornamental garden. The property offers a peek-a-boo view of Mount Rainier and expansive territorial views.

Originally a red currant farm, the property’s dry, gravelly soil offers a plethora of mature native madrona and Douglas-fir trees. They have designed their garden in the spirit of its origins, with an emphasis on drought-tolerant, native plants.

Near the entrance, visitors are met with the “farm area,” about 4,200 square feet dedicated to organic vegetables and berries (blueberries, raspberries, cur-rants, loganberries and strawber-ries) as well as a small orchard of apple, Japanese pear, plum, pluot, apricot and cherry trees. Adjacent paddock, pastures and buildings add to the property’s farm feel. Fox and Brown were named a “Farm of Merit” by King Conservation District for their efforts to develop and maintain an eco-friendly horse area for Fox’s two horses.

Fox and Brown are relatively new to gardening and call their expansive landscaping a “garden in process.”

“We never gardened before coming to the Island five years ago; it’s been on-the-job training,”

said Fox, who was president of the Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club last year. The original gar-den nearest the house is 20 years old. Others are four months to four years old.

“Our biggest challenge may be the fact that we have several garden-able acres, far too much for novice gardeners, but a nice problem to have,” Fox added.

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been dumped at several locations throughout the property. After removing many pickup loads of forgotten debris, they took it as an opportunity to add new gardens. “One of the gardens that most pleases me is an area that was covered with junk and blackberries,” Fox said.

Another big project was to eradicate invasive plants, such as Scotch broom, Himalayan black-berries and lamium from woodland areas in order to restore and replant natives. They also added trees to their inherited large lawn so as to cre-ate, over time, an arboretum feel. “We decided to forego having a weed-free lawn, thus avoiding use of the bags of chemicals we found when we bought the property,” Fox said.

In addition to Northwest natives, they have added ornamental grasses, a modest collection of Japanese maples and a number of drought-tolerant plants acquired from local nurseries. Their drive-way entrance hedge was built around selections from drought-tolerant plants, thanks to Colvos Creek Nursery. Some trees and larger rhododen-drons were “adopted” from benevolent Puget Sound area gardeners. “Which means that they’ve come to us with great stories from people who like to share,” said Fox. “We are gardening on a budget and don’t have a lot of exotic plants.”

They both agree their favorite aspect of the gar-den is how the house is situated — in the middle of all this verdant life. “Each garden can seem like a child, with its own particular virtues and quirki-ness. We like the variety through all four seasons — flowers in spring, vegetable garden in summer, pond area and grasses in fall, different woodland gardens in winter. We also like the paths through the lower woods and views across our neighbors’ landscapes,” Fox said.

The couple frequently visited Vashon before they left Seattle to move here — a move prompted by Fox’s love of horses. “We had been coming over for years because my horse trainer lived here, then my horse. The thing that has made the difference is this out-of-body experience of becoming a gar-

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involving hardscaping and heavy equipment. They have added a small patio, pond, gate and fence (an intricate system to conceal his car collection). “He’s the master thinker on that sort of project,” Fox added. “I love rocks and have old Island rocks in my ‘turn around’ garden for texture and punc-tuation with sword ferns.”

Her advice for other novice gardeners? “The first thing is to hang out with local gardeners and go to local nurseries to find out what grows best here; talk to Master Gardeners. I like the plants that thrive here. This is a great place to start.”

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And in an effort to make bouquets affordable, Carol turns the sweet peas into $5 posies and sends them home with customers in Mason jars, which can be returned later, next time they’re in town.

Florists sell a lot of lilies, and Carol has those, too, a 50-square foot bed of Oriental lilies. There are rudbeckia, coreopsis, peonies and amaranth. And dahlias! Not the longest-lasting cut flower but so spectacular that a true flower-lover must have them.

But for all this, Carol’s true joy in her garden is to see her grandchildren having fun there — eating peas off the vine, picking blueberries and straw-

berries, riding their ponies in the pasture, carefree in a natural and beautiful place. Every summer Carol throws a party in her lavender park, where 100 or so relatives and friends gather.

Carol Ahlfors

Hal and Molly Green’s Triplebrook Gardens, overlooking Colvos Passage, are part of a historic property homesteaded in 1890 by Jedediah Paige. He built the barn and part of the farmhouse, which still stand here. Triplebrook later became a chicken farm; the old brooder house is a guest cottage today.

When the Greens moved there in 2003, the property boasted little more than a few old rhododendrons and some patchy grass. The industrious couple gradually filled in their two-acre spread with English roses, viburnums, hydrangeas, dogwoods and lilacs, turning it into a glorious garden

that will be featured at Vashon Allied Arts’ Garden Tour in June.

Molly, who says she and Hal are novice gardeners, describes her garden style as lush, old-fashioned, quirky and wild. She likes to see the plants play off one another, contrasting their foliage and colors. She also likes plants that self-seed and start new colonies across a path. For the most part, she lets them stay where they’ve cho-sen to wander.

To protect all this beauty, the Greens put up hundreds of feet of deer fence around the garden. Decades ago, Triplebrook was home to a large berry garden, which deer eventually destroyed. The deer fence has allowed the Greens to recreate the berry garden, with boysenberries, loganberries,

marionberries, chester berries and raspberries.

Now, Hal says, the prob-lem is raccoons. Last summer he had corn for the first time, but raccoons flattened the stalks and took a bite out of every single ear of corn. He’s working on a solution to this latest critter problem.

Hal and Molly GreenThe Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club highlights outstanding gardens every year, beautiful spreads worthy of community-wide attention. Here are the club’s 2010 selections and a little bit about the people who have worked hard to create them. And

if you’re interested in joining the club, it meets at 10:45 a.m. on the second Monday of the month at Vashon Lutheran Church. Bring a lunch and enjoy a fabulous speaker.

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“Serene” is the word for Kirk Haupt and Joanna Gugliermino’s garden.

When they bought their home 12 years ago, there were wonderful old rhodies and hydrangeas on the property and a cottage garden-feel close to the house. A few years later, when the couple remodeled the house, the newly updated architecture seemed to call for a more modern garden.

They hired Tim Holtschlag to put in a beautiful boulder arrangement in front of the house and to advise them on the kinds of plants that would lend a modern feel. The result is dra-matic. Grasses and reeds are planted in masses. Black Mondo grass plays

off the pale sea-green of the house and the grays of stone and gravel. The equisetum growing against the house is a pretty touch, contained in a planter so it can’t roam into the rest of the garden. Shapes of plant-ings are clean and simple, soothing and Zen-inspired. It’s a clean garden design, but still lush — big kiwi vines

sprawl over an arbor, hostas and crocosmias bloom with color, and the glorious old rhodies are still there.

In the back, a little garden house is the focal point of Joanna’s vegetable beds. This is where they like to have a glass of wine in the eve-nings, surrounded by all the bounty. Joanna has learned to protect her blueberries and strawberries with net-ting to keep birds away. Like the Greens, she’s still look-ing for a raccoon solution.

Kirk has installed low-flow drip-system irrigation in the garden here. The plants they’ve chosen tend to be tough and adaptive; they can get soaked all winter, then make do with little water in the summer. One of Joanna’s favorites is the ground-cover barrenwort.

Kirk Haupt and Joanna Gugliermino


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On a dark December day in 1996, Sam and Sarah Van Fleet first saw their home-to-be, and they fell in love with it because of two beautiful old trees that anchored the place — a

huge weeping willow and a 125-foot tall sequoia. They bought the property and over the years have turned their new home into a wildlife sanc-tuary that is also a delight for human visitors.

The Van Fleets took a class on landscaping for wildlife with well-known wildlife biol-ogist Russell Link and began to turn their acreage into a refuge for birds and animals. A bird bath below the house, for instance, drew many birds, and Sam and Sarah enjoyed watching them from the house.

Sam was inspired: If a bird bath was good, how much better would a pond be? So they installed a good-sized pond, planted it with water-lilies, slough sedge, duck potato for ducks and umbrella plant. They’ve now counted 78 different types of

birds visiting the pond.The sequoia still stands. Sam climbs

to the top every year (on a clear day he can see Whidbey Island up there.) But the old willow fell down in the storms of last November. Sarah is replacing the tree with a hedgerow of chokecherry, cascara, black haw-thorne and twinberry. The plants will attract wildlife and help screen the property the way the old willow used to. This kind of renovation is the ongoing challenge of a mature gar-den. Something is always changing, and Sarah says this is her focus now, learning to edit and rethink as condi-tions in her garden evolve.

The Van Fleets’ property is now part of King County’s Rural Stewardship program. They welcome the local Audubon Society’s visits and love to invite other groups that want to see how beautiful and full of life a garden for wildlife can be.

The Master Gardeners on Vashon will once again host their popular clinics this summer at a table located in the breezeway between True Value and Thriftway. Sharing their knowledge, the Master Gardeners help promote healthful and sustainable gardening practices on Vashon. Volunteers staff the clinics, each bringing a wide variety of gardening experience and interests. If the Master Gardeners at the table aren’t able to answer your questions immediately, they can forward the informa-tion and specimens to local WSU labs for further analysis. Questions accompanied by a specimen are welcome as it is much easier to correctly diagnose a problem or identify a plant with a piece of it in hand.From April 1 to Sept. 24, volunteers will be available to answer gardening questions most Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Master Gardeners are also collaborating with Amy Bogaard and the Vashon High School botany class to create a native plant garden behind the greenhouses at VHS. It showcases a variety of plants well-adapted to local conditions. Once established, gardens with mixed natives require significantly reduced amounts of maintenance and water, and provide much needed habitat for wildlife. Stop by and watch this garden evolve as students and gar-deners bring their skills to the program.The Master Gardeners also sponsor educational opportu-nities for Island gardeners. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 26, the group will offer a class called “Plant Choices for Gardening with Deer,” taught by Master Gardener Colleen James. See page 23 for more details.The Master Gardener Program for King County offers one 12-week session every year to train new volunteers. The 2012 classes will be held on 12 consecutive Saturdays, beginning in early January. For more information or to apply, visit the King County Master Gardener website at http://king.wsu.edu/Gardening/. The site also has links to a wealth of gardening information.

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Now familiar with the three-year-old stumpery, Carhart has nothing but praise for the garden.

“It’s one of the most interesting and unique gardens on the Island because there’s nothing else like it,” he said.

Indeed, stepping into Pat and her husband Walt Riehl’s stumpery is like stepping into another world.

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Pat and Walt Riehl’s stumpery (pictured above) is nestled in a ravine, allowing visitors to feel truly immersed in the garden. The stumpery is home to over 1,000 ferns, from large tree ferns to small woodsia ferns (pictured at right).

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A few woodland plants and mosses join in, creat-ing a hodgepodge of tex-tures and varying shades of green at every turn of the wide dirt path that winds through the stumpery.

Riehl, a longtime garden-er who was once a florist as well, was inspired to create her stump-centered garden — one of the largest in the United States — after she fell in love with ferns.

“When I started reading, trying to gain knowledge on this group of plants, … this word stumpery came up, and I became more and more curious about it,” she said.

Riehl’s curiosity ulti-mately carried her to Europe, where stumper-ies were first designed in the 1800s to showcase the plants that European explorers brought back from other parts of the world.

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and England to see how ferns are still used in the gardens and stumperies there, visiting the most famous stumpery of all, at the home of Prince Charles.

In England, Riehl met British fern expert Martin Richard, who agreed to visit Vashon and design her

stumpery. Riehl’s husband Walt, who owns a small construction businesses, was supportive of her dream and provided much of the manpower as the two moved around 150 tree stumps to their property.

Riehl said she couldn’t be more pleased with how the ambitious project turned out.

“In some ways it’s a hard thing to describe because it has its own magical sense. … For me it’s magical, serene, peaceful,” she said.

Riehl said others who have visited the stumpery, either on Vashon Allied Arts’ Garden Tour last year or as part of a gardening group, have had similar reactions.

“When we had it open for the first time on the VAA tour, the women who came through said it moved them so much that they couldn’t speak,” she said. “They were moved by the atmosphere. That’s a powerful thing.”

Cindy Stockett, a well-

known Island gardener with her own large, lavish gardens, called Riehl both creative and brave for tak-ing on one of the nation’s only large-scale stumperies.

“You really have to have a devotion to that type of gardening, because it’s such a big commitment to take that plunge,” she said, “But it’s such a wonderful creation. … It’s got such a range of creativity, and she’s got an amazing collec-tion of specimens.”

Riehl said the bulk of her work in the stumpery is actually over, as it is nearly mature after only a few years.

“Ferns are actually incredibly easy to main-tain,” she said. “You don’t do a lot to them.”

Still, Riehl said, she takes time to tinker in the stum-pery, always finding a spot to perfect in the place she loves.

“No garden is ever done,” she said.

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Pat Riehl (left) is the creative force behind the stumpery, while her husband Walt has done much of the heavy lifting required to create the unique garden.

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In the spirit of welcoming spring and a new season of gardening, The Beachcomber asked the owners

of the Island’s three largest nurseries about some of their favorite plants this year. In addition to their striking visual characteristics, the plants they recom-mended are hardy, drought tolerant and deer resistant, characteristics valu-able to almost any Island gardener.Sylvia�Matlock,�Dig�Floral�&�Garden

For its red stems and green leaves arranged like a pinwheel, Dig’s Sylvia Matlock recommended drimys lanceolata, sometimes knows as a mountain pepper. This shrub grows three to four feet tall and about two and half feet wide. The plants flower, but the flowers are not their main attraction. “The plants are about the foli-age,” Matlock said.

Commonly called an Oregon myrtle, the umbellularia Californica is in the bay fam-ily. While it cannot be used for culinary purposes like some of its relatives, it is a good choice in the Northwest. “It is one of the most stalwart hedging shrubs you could put in,” Matlock said.

With its dramatic, variegated foliage, the Fatsia japonica variegata is also a plant Matlock recommends often. It is good in the shade and needs no water. “It is great for the dark corners no one wants to deal with,” Matlock said.

For color, Matlock suggests papaver commutatum, or Ladybird poppy — an outstanding red flower with black cheeks. Once established, it is self-seeding, but not invasive. “It is lovely to interweave in a sunny spot,” according to Matlock.

Mike�Lee,�Colvos�Creek�NurseryAt Colvos Creek Nursery, owner Mike

Lee suggested a variety of trees and shrubs. The royal grevellia is an evergreen

shrub that grows eight feet tall or more. Its narrow leaves are gray-green on the top and a fawn color on the bottom, with silvery stems. In the fall, red-orange flow-ers bloom and last throughout the winter. “The winter hummingbirds just love them,” he said.

The silver leaf oak is another of Lee’s favorites. It has a long, narrow leaf, with dark green on top and silver underneath. “When the wind blows, it has beautiful ripples of silver throughout,” Lee said.

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soap hanging in trees, fabric softener strips lying across plants or stockings stuffed with human hair. Maybe you would prefer spraying a compound of garlic and rotten eggs, applying bloodmeal or scattering cougar and coy-ote dung.

You can also buy com-mercial deer repellants, but these can be costly and need to be reapplied peri-odically. One mechanical device, the motion-detect-ing Scarecrow waterer, may temporarily frighten deer away. (So can your pooch, if he stays out all night.)

All these methods have worked for someone — but beware: Our Vashon deer are resilient and quick to catch onto our tricks. Better to use deterrents selectively in addition to the two strategies that do work: fencing and an inte-grated approach to deer resistant planting.

If you want a vegetable garden or a nice collec-tion of roses or other deer candy, you will have

to fence. There are two approaches to fencing. The first is to build a fence at least seven to eight feet high using deer netting (available in town) secured to a series of poles, trees or rebar stakes. The trick, if you don’t want break-ins, is to stretch a taut wire at the bottom of the net-ting so that deer cannot noodle their way under it. Remember to monitor the fence after windstorms. All it takes is one tree toppling your fence, and a new inva-sion will begin.

Another approach is to build a double row fence. Deer can jump high and wide — but they can’t do both at the same time. The two fences should be four to five feet high and four to five feet apart. This can look quite nice, although it takes more effort to con-struct.

If building a fence doesn’t suit your site or your budget, Colleen James, a Burton-based master gardener and gar-den designer, offers a dif-ferent approach: Plant to

fool the deer. James’ garden is a wonder of variety and color, using plants whose fragrance deer dislike (such as lavender) to surround the plants in her garden that deer would treasure.

James is sharing her secrets at a free class — Outsmarting the Deer in Your Garden — from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 26, at the Vashon Library. She will discuss her experiences about what plants they avoid, what they will devour and how to landscape effec-tively without fencing. She reminds us, though, that deer on Vashon have their own unique preferences — different from deer in other regions — and their tastes seem to change every year.

Raccoons are another story. I can’t keep them out, despite the deer fenc-ing that surrounds part of our property. They will chew through netting and even, I have heard, chicken wire. On top of the damage they do in the garden, their feces are

toxic and can carry fatal parasites, so take precau-tions when cleaning up the dung.

The best strategy for rac-coon control, beyond the family dog, is a low electric fence. This year I am going to install two electrified wires, four inches and 12 inches off the ground, to keep the raccoons out of the orchard. But my strat-egy includes a plea: Please tell your kind neighbor up the street, the one who feeds the baby raccoons, to stop it! Yes, they are cute, but feeding them is not humane. If you encourage them, another neighbor may end up having to trap them.

You can buy a Have-a-Heart live animal trap in town, but the catch-and-release idea is problematic on our Islands: I doubt our north-end neighbors would like an influx of Maury Island raccoons and vice versa.

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Master Gardener living on Maury Island.

shrub and is evergreen. The leaves are in three’s, and each leaflet is a velvety, sil-very green. Flowers form in large, conical clusters and are orange-yellow. “They smell like pineapple with a little peach,” Lee said. “They’re really nice.”

The coulture pine, a native of Southern California, grows up to 70 feet tall and has 12-inch needles. Its cones are as large as a pineapple and just as heavy. A very bold tree, this pine is a “magnif-icent specimen,” Lee said.

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At Kathy’s Corner, owner Kathy Wheaton recom-mends this year the Dutch lady hydrangea. All six varieties grow three to four feet tall and bloom on old and new wood, so there are no worries about pruning. The new-growth leaves are burgundy, and they have great fall color, too. The large flowers come in a whole range of hues that change depending on the

soil they are planted in. “They are just nice, nice plants,” Wheaton said.

Many people used to think of barberries as thorny, prickly pants, Wheaton said, but there are several new varieties suit-able for nearly every gar-den. Tall and short, skinny and wide, they come in a variety of shapes and in many new colors. “They are beautiful plants that really need to be looked at again,” Wheaton said.

Other favorites of Wheaton’s this year are small evergreens that used to be hard to come by: dwarf conifers. With a multitude of varieties and colors, they will fit any piece of the landscape and are a good value. “Dwarf conifers have won a place in my heart,” she said.

A few years ago, garden-ers could get maybe four kinds of echinacea plants, but now, Wheaton, said, there are hundreds of them, and 50 to 60 varieties are excellent. They are fragrant and their color does not fade. From the multitude of these colorful flowers, Wheaton picked her top three favorites: tomato soup, hot papaya and hot summer. Tamara Hahn

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By STEVE KICINSKIFor The Beachcomber

The recent spate of rains has highlighted a periodic envi-ronmental issue on Vashon — landslides, a fact of life in rainy Puget Sound. Geologically, landslides occur frequently, though only infrequently in a person’s lifetime. Since we know they will happen, the questions then are when and how a land-owner can cope with them.

To better understand the timing of landslides, I’ll use the following measures — Human Time (HT) and Geologic Time (GT). In simple terms, Geologic Time is much, much longer than Human Time, and Human Time spans a person’s lifetime. (There is also the widely acknowledged, but never measured, Island Time, which is whenever you want me there plus 30 minutes, or whenever I get there. But that’s another story.)

Sometimes, GT intrudes upon our HT. Consider these examples. Mount St. Helens has had at least five major eruption periods over the last 220 years. Before the dramatic 1980 eruptions, the previ-ous eruptions occurred in the 1850s. Another example is digging holes on Vashon. Our famous Vashon till was well-compacted by a mile-thick gla-

cier covering the Island about 10,000 years ago. In GT, that glacier was yesterday. If you were digging holes yesterday (HT), your back is probably sore today (HT).

This brings us to one of the biggest GT intrusions on our HT Island lives: landslides. Typically, landslides occur every 20 to 50 years, often trig-gered by the kinds of La Nina rains we’ve experienced recent-ly. The resulting damage can range from nuisance, to costly, to tragic. Landslides are a fact of GT life. They will likely continue throughout Vashon’s GT existence, until our Island finally erodes into Puget Sound. Present-day “Human Timers,” however, should prob-ably not worry too much about Vashon’s eventual demise.

Seriously, there are things you can do to improve your odds against a landslide, as noted in the list that follows. While GT sometimes intrudes on our personal HT, hopefully it doesn’t happen too often. Deep down, we all probably hope it’s left to the next genera-tion.

— Steve Kicinski, owner of Ellisport Engineering, is a civil

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Longhi had heard plenty of horror stories about remodels before she and her sister decided to embark on one. But that, too, has turned into a deep-ly satisfying experience, Longhi said.

She made a decision early on that she wanted to use Islanders as much as possible for the proj-ect, so she started out by going to the Chamber of Commerce website, punch-ing in “D” for designer and discovering Dammann, who, it turned out, lived

three doors away. The two, Longhi said, have worked together beautifully.

And a few months later, when the actual work was ready to begin and Carl Frederickson, the general contractor, showed up, she recognized him instantly; they’d played together when she was 6.

Both Dammann and Longhi are pleased with the way the project — built by Ed Palmer — turned out. Longhi, Dammann said, was easy to work with — in part, he noted, “because she knew what she wanted.”

But Longhi’s especiallypleased by what she’s achieved for her family. “I feel good that the next generation will have a place like this to come to,” she said.

During her years away, she said, “The sense of place I had growing up stayed with me. I always felt I had a home.”

Now, she added, her sister’s children will likely have that same “tangible tie to the Island. And that feels really good to me.”

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Precautionary measures help prevent landslidesWhat to do:Follow current laws and regulations: Observe proper setbacks from the top and toe of slopes, and grade the site to drain away from the top.Maintain slope vegetation: Maintain vegeta-tion on the slope and encourage the growth of “water-loving” deep-rooted plants, such as willow, firs and salal. Remove trees that are unhealthy or would pose a threat to buildings if they fell.Maintain Drainage: Maintain all drainage sys-tems on your site. Keep as much water as possible away from the slope.Research your site: Hire a geotechnical engineer to assess your specific site and follow his or her recommendations. His or her report will describe the geology of your land, the landslide risks you may face and recommendations on how to miti-gate those risks. Do what you can afford.

What not to do:Don’t add water to top of slope: Don’t install anything that will deliver water to the top of the bluff — no irrigation system, no septic drainfield, no downspout water.Don’t dump debris on the slope: Debris, prun-ings and clippings may kill underlying plants that help stabilize the slope.Don’t change natural drainage paths: Don’t fill in or change natural drainage paths such as swales or seasonal streams. Nature chose those paths for a reason; to change them is to invite problems.Don’t cut the toe of a slope: Cutting into the toe of a slope is one of the surest ways to encourage a future slide. If a slope toe must be cut, an engi-neered retaining wall system should be installed. Don’t overlook slide indicators: Don’t be lulled into complacency because a slope has been stable for a long time. Watch for soil cracks, water springs on the face of the slope, dying vegetation, tilting trees and small erosion problems.



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At Kronos, consider a Baroque-style picture frame. At $28, the frames are very affordable. And they’d add a splash of color to any room, coming, as they do, in chartreuse, hot pink and purple. “They’re inexpensive but opu-lent,” said Kronos co-owner Eugenie Mirfin.

At only $16 for a pillar, hand-made beeswax candles, such as this one sold at Good Merchandise, are an inexpensive treat for the home. The candles sold at Good Merchandise are crafted by Heather Brynn, owner of the Vashon Candle Company. The beeswax, says store owner AnnaLisa LaFayette, comes from Washington state, making the product about as local as it gets.

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At Giraffe, consider place-mats woven with vetiver and cotton from Indonesia. Vetiver is a natural grow-ing and fragrant root. And these mats — $36 for a set of six — are machine wash-able, with a sweet odor that will last through mul-tiple washings. They come in green, blue or wheat. And of course, says owner Priscilla Schleigh, they’re fair-trade.


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MarchGardening with deer10 a.m. Saturday, March 26, at the Vashon LibraryLearn how to make peace with some of the Island’s wildlife at “Plant Choices for Gardening with Deer,” taught by master gardener Colleen James.

AprilVashon Farmers Market Opens10 a.m to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2, in the Village GreenCelebrate the early spring greens at the market’s open-ing day.

Vashon Island Pet Protectors Plant and Garage Sale9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at the former Island Variety store next to Vashon MarketThis year VIPP is combining its plant and garage sales to benefit the organization and offer a variety of home and garden treasures.

Farmers Market Earth Day Celebration10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23, in the Village GreenEnjoy kids’ crafts and infor-mation on sustainable living.

MayVashon-Maury Island Garden Club’s Plant Sale 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 7, at the former Napa Auto Parts store near Island MarketStock up

on tomatoes, fuchsias, gera-niums, perennials, exotics and native plants.

Farmers Market Mother’s Day/Gardening Day 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, in the Village GreenFamilies can enjoy kids’ crafts and gardening displays.

High Fiber Day at the Farmers Market10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in the Village GreenGet your fiber with demon-strations of all of the fiber arts, including spinning, weaving and sheep shearing.

JuneFarmers Market Summer Solstice Celebration10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 18, in the Village Green

Welcome summer with kids’ crafts, live music and a spe-cial cooking demonstration.

Reading, Wine and Cheese Tasting6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25Best-selling author, Elizabeth Murray reads from her book, “Monet’s Passion: Ideas, Inspiration, and Insights from the Painter’s Gardens,” accompanied by wine and cheese tasting. See www.vashonalliedarts.org.

Vashon IslandGarden Tour10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 25 and 26This annual event features some of the Island’s most beautiful gardens, seminars, a plant sale and more.

JulyLavender Harvest Celebration10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday, July 9, in the Village GreenVashon’s lavender farmers offer crafts, art and food made with their freshly har-vested, fragrant flowers.

AugustZucchipalooza10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday, Aug. 13, in the Village Green

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Tomato Taste Off 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, in the Village Green Sample a wide range of tomatoes grown by Vashon’s farmers and gardeners or enter your own tomatoes.

SeptemberIsland Family Harvest 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, in the Village Green Learn tips on preserving your harvest, enjoy kids’ crafts and enter a preserves contest.

Farm Tour Sunday, Sept 18, around the IslandTour up to five of Vashon’s farms that will participate in the event.

OctoberCiderFest at the Village GreenSaturday, Oct. 8Celebrate fall with kids’ activities and a display by the fruit club

Halloween Festival10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Village Green

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NovemberPumpkin Pie Contest10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday, Nov. 19, in the Village GreenThe Island’s best bakers com-pete in this annual event.

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