A gardener never quits!

6 Jan '07 5:51 pm

Of the many disasters that can befall us.... lol... it's a bit like giving birth... the pain is horrendous but we go on again and again...the pain passes and we start from scratch again! The trick with a garden is to never go back to see how it's faring! So onwards to beauty wherever we may be!

More Roses...

6 Jan '07 6:02 pm

My Husband had never grown a rose before we came here....he chooses 'his',plants 'em and when they flower he is invariably disappointed...he chooses for fragrance rather than looks, so out they come and I them get them! I never say no to a rose!

6 Jan '07 6:16 pm

Plants from last Season that did well... I lost a few because of the wet start to summer and was glad I did not try them again this summer! Spring gives me the best showing and even the winter!

6 Jan '07 6:25 pm

I love taking close-ups of flowers and of a group of flowers...oops... wrong pics! I'm still getting used to this style of posting pics!

7 Jan '07 2:47 am

.... I was really so sad when I read about your separation from your beloved gardens! I feel I could die if I had to endure such a thing with my extended present garden...Right now I am totally attached to it, body-mind-spirit... The two times I had to be separated in the past from dear gardens,though, was not so stressful (although leaving a garden behind feels like abandoning a child...) ; maybe, because they were small, not much work in there done by me -no Roses, compared to my present garden... The one was about 12 years ago moving here from Greece.. Those days I managed to move all ...my pot garden , happily living here now... And then, 6-7 years ago, when we left a nearby house to move into ours.. Then, I moved here with all my pot garden, plus my Hydrangeas, Rhododendrons , and Kerrias -- I had planted there, and still live happily in my present garden! Thank God...Gordon, I just do not wish to think negative, of what my present garden will be, when I die.. I envision good, nice people taking over, with much Love! The one of them might be my little Nicholas, the only member of the family showing gardening talent and inclination...

The photos of your plants are all lovely, Pusslil, especially of your Roses!

7 Jan '07 3:58 am

Oh my goodness, Puslil, your roses are breathtaking! So beautiful framed against the stone siding of the house. You make me wonder if my decision to place my new rose berms out in the open where they are exposed to winds from the north and west was wise. They do get full sun almost all day, so I can only hope that will counter balance the other. I have rooted a number of boxwood cuttings and am considering planting them on the northwest side of the berms to provide a wind break and a backdrop for the roses. Of course, they are only inches high right now, so will take years to develop any size. Does this sound like a good plan?

I am very impressed with what you have done in such a short time in your new garden. Please keep posting those beautiful pictures.

7 Jan '07 8:59 am

So many pics to choose from I hardly know which to choose!

7 Jan '07 10:45 am

Sorry for the delays between uploads...the site seemed to be down earlier...

7 Jan '07 11:01 am

It is such a lovely day today.. very warm in the sun, so I thought all the gardens here looked so good I would take some more pics...I have included the garden that one of my neighbors looks after which is next to our unit...it used to have shrubs in it but we sneakily took them out one day so she could have a better display... it is a combined effort...most of us here love gardening!

7 Jan '07 11:21 am

I took some photos of our units ,in October last...plus some others

A gardener never quits!

Fellow gardeners are so understanding...

More Roses...

Something different....more roses later!

Dear Gordon and Bambi, ......

Garden Treasures

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