13 Dec '06 3:12 pm Thank you for your latest newsletter,Moosey .
The REAL rose garden in the Botanical gardens is absolutely beautiful - exactly the sort of roses in a natural setting with perennials that I love. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Dixie
Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Botanical Rose Garden!
13 Dec '06 11:27 pm Yes, indeed! I enjoyed myself immensely Moosey's description and photos in this magical Rose Garden! Ah, one day....
And I also enjoyed ALL the great photos and comments in the latest Moosey's News! And in order that all of you have immediate access to the adorable Rose, Scentasia, of Dixie's (reffered in the News by Moosey)), I decided to move it here from the In Love Diary (where it always keeps its special place) ; because here is our special Forum Rose Garden, no?
Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Moosey is a legend!
14 Dec '06 2:25 am She also keeps me out of work. I came in to write the Rotary minutes for tonight. After a week of holiday I can hardly cry "too busy! - sorry!" As it is I should have prioritised so that they went out by Monday. But it was that wicked 'to hell with it -I'm on holiday' feeling (that hopefully ex-teachers, especially those who call themselves 'retired' can sympathise with?) that made me wait until the last minute and now, truth be told, it is too late... because I read the newsletter and responded to the forum and - well, Moosey's pictures of the old-fashioned roses in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens got me going, and I figured out where I can do a LARGE, RAMBLING, FREE-FORM rose garden with enough space for all my poor plants that get corsetted like Victorian Grande Dames in the Rondel to let go...
Pleased to see your 'Rhapsody in Blue' doing it for you. And all your other lovely roses, with and without raindrops. Not to mention the peonies of which I am most nastily envious, as I have said in a previous post... Thanks for letting me play catch-up: it is quite worrying that I KNOW I read some of those posts at the time, yet there are details that I have forgotten. Let me blame end of year pressures! And there is the awe of the triathlete... (I'm afraid the closest I come is cribbed from a card a friend sent me for my 50th: Straight? Gaay? Bisexual? At my age I guess I'm Trisexual! I'll try anything!)
What else? There is the exciting news that a certain retired lady gardener has a sport of one of the most exciting David Austins, which I suggest she registers - thereafter she really could claim the title of Idle Rich, because Retired she sure aint! I even have a name for it, which also helps debunk the Retired notion: 'Sporting Mary Rose'!
