A gardener never quits!

6 Jan '07 6:12 am

lol Bambi... and isn't this just the bestest place to find that inspiration! Very Happy

I know i have found it several times here Angel

Pusslil, you are an inspiration. The dedication it takes and the blood, sweat and tears that go into building a paradise out of bare ground is not lost on any of us here Wink

Sad you had to leave that which you had created, frustrating that you now have gardening constraints (arggh, isn't that just the hardest thing? to have to stick to a certain size), but on a brighter note Cool

your garden, which are now building, will be a source of much enjoyment for alot of people around the village I am sure.

Interesting is the Fan Flower....I have never seen one of these, is that its' real name?

6 Jan '07 9:42 am

Thank you all for the great comments! I've had a look at other gardens here and will be going back to place my comments when this Diary is up to date!
LIZA...It's a sad story as to why we had to leave our garden of Eden, so I will tell you here instead of later...
My husband (2nd) has 6 daughters, one of whom owns the farm where we made our Garden.In the May of 2005 we had to go up North for 2 weeks, and I needed someone to look after my cat and chooks, also the working dog my husband had. His 'job' was as a caretaker of the drystock on the farm....so..
previously I had gotten one of the 'live-in' grandaughters (23) to feed our animals and chooks, but she barely gave them enough to live on, I know this because the feed barrel for the chooks should have been near empty when we got back... it was 3/4 full...they were out of water and had been for at least 2 days! The dog was ok because they had used her to do the stock work...
So this time I asked a good friend to see to the animals as I knew she would do a good job....she was also known by the 'family', however unbeknown to me she was on the 'outer' with them. Next thing I know I have a phone call from Hubby's daughter telling me I had no right to have this girl come onto "her" property to see to my animals and that her own daughter would see to the animals. She even told her own father what she thought of the situation,and that I had better learn my place pretty quick etc etc.
We could not get out of the trip we had to make so I had to leave the animals in her daughter's care...when I got back my cat had gone...her vicious dog saw to that! The chooks were starving again...you can imagine how upset I was, so Hubby said enough was enough and we immediately applied for a Pensioner Unit here in Matamata.We were so lucky to have one offered to us in Morrinsville the next week and we took it and put our name down for one in Matamata as this was where we wanted to really be! We moved within 4 weeks of my step-daughter's outburst. I swore I would never set foot on her farm again...and I never have.
The garden was deliberately destroyed to remove all traces of me... the sheep, deer and cattle were let in and all the trees,shrubs and fruit trees cut down. Why did my step-daughter hate me so much? Because her Daddy remarried and even though she was 45 at the time she could not accept the fact. There was a lot more went on than needs to be told..best forgotten, but I am glad that I had so many people come to look at my garden there over the time we had it, and that I was able to get photos of it to share with others.
Living here I know that no one is ever going to ask me to leave...except the Creator when he says my time is up!
Now I had best get on with next installment!

6 Jan '07 9:59 am

For this Post I will post photos of all the various plants I have had during the Garden's first full season, right up until now. because of the way the 4 gardens are situated one cannot get a perspectivbe of them...they do not photograph well at all...one of the rose gardens can only be photographed from an odd angle due to a small Kowhai tree being in the way!
I love a mixture of everything in my gardens... nothing is really planned,colours appear as they will!

6 Jan '07 10:15 am

Ok so I got too far ahead of myself! My files are not as organised as I'd like to think!

6 Jan '07 10:28 am

From here on I think I will add some Rose pics!
More as I get the time!

6 Jan '07 12:17 pm

Dear me,Pusslil, my friend... You know, they say "you choose your friends , but not your relatives"... But I know some lucky people, who have relatives as their great friends as well... Let's hope, that the future generations will have more tolerance and open-mindness , letting more unconditional Love flow into their hearts...These family dramas exist in all cultures of our world, everywhere where human societies are formed ...That is the bitter truth...And I even think/believe, that all these negative things function in our private lives as a huge challenge, in order to make us evolve as human beings...Learn to really love, accept, and forgive...Being free, and de-touched from the past..Right now , you are at the point , where you make a brave new begining! In the way you are in the process of creating a new miracle garden, you will create your new interior garden , freed from the negative Past...Freed fom all sort "weeds" of the past, which are mainly negative or bitter thoughts and feelings...I think you already experienced how miraculous is for our bodies , minds , and spirits the very act of gardening!! We -gardeners are so lucky! So, I wish you lots of Love , Courage , Optimism, Openmindness, Humour, Imagination, Creativity, Determination, and...a very happy gardening ! Never give up! We all here will be at your side -- creating your true miracle garden!

And, your new mixed borders and Rose bushes look stunning, already ! Imagine what they will look next summer, when they will be even better established!...Wow!

6 Jan '07 1:03 pm

I'm so sorry that family members lead to your moving from where you were. But your new garden is beautiful and I can see there's a lot of love gone into it. Smile

6 Jan '07 1:52 pm

Your experience would be like a death, dear Pusslil ,and how can you deal with such pain.
I suffered a different story ,but similar pain -in 2002.I felt an almost audible voice say to me "you are Richer than she can ever be ."and though it did not mean material wealth ,I knew it to be profound ,and I gained peace .And what did I do ? I bought my favourite roses -Albertine !!!And planted ! And created! And meditated on lovely things !And renewed my bruised spirit ! Your beautiful new garden would bring joy to everyone who sees it .
Dixie.

6 Jan '07 4:48 pm

6 Jan '07 5:20 pm

Your garden was just beautiful! I know well how you feel after selling a garden and later hearing how it has been abandoned! That's happened to me several times, and I know it'll happen to my present garden when I leave it (after death, I hope!); but one must not give up hope. Perhaps the garden will be inherited by another gardener who will appreciate the many varieties and hard work that one has put into it all! And, anyway, a gardener HAS to garden, as I discovered during my 12 years living on a sailboat! I'm SO glad to live once more where I have a garden, albeit a small one!

All the best,

gordonf

A gardener never quits!

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