20 Aug '07 3:06 pm Hi to all who love to dig in the dirt as much as I do. I am in south-Central Georgia, U.S.A. I am now retired on 2 acres of land and have time finally to garden. It is so hot here that so far my effots do not amount to much. Maybe next year. I do have a small greenhouse so am starting some seedlings for next Spring. Just bought 7 houseplants for my sunroom, also several different succulents.
Dixie in New Zealand told me about this site and I really am enjoying reading the posts from different parts of the world.
Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Welcome Butterflysue.
20 Aug '07 5:07 pm You'll want to meet Faith who gardens next door to you in Alabama, also recently retired and on farm's worth of acres. She is a sage and prolific presence in these cyber pages.
My name is Mark and I've been making my first and only garden in California for the last 13 or so years. I am probably seven or so years from retirement. I started visiting Moosey's just last Spring. I recently began a Garden Diary in that forum category which I call "A garden grows in California". There are actually many, many gardens growing here but mostly I just write about and post pictures from my own. However, tonight I just finished loading photos from a garden I visited yesterday and today in nearby Oakland which is really spectacular if you like well grown, mature, exotic plants in nice arrangements with one another and a lot of stones and water features. I posted that story as a new topic in the Garden Tours forum category.
I look forward to seeing photographs from where you garden and hearing about it to. I really admire butterflies and try to draw them in with plants both for them and for their larvae.
Take care,
Mark
Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Welcome
21 Aug '07 7:37 am Welcome Butterfly Sue.What a lovely surprise to greet you this morning.Wonderful people live here,and there is so much encouragement.What I particularly like is being able to share in the joys of different seasons -we are coming into spring now,and during winter,reading about the Northern gardens has been a joy and an inspiration.
Dixie.
Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Welcome Butterflysue
23 Aug '07 6:18 am It's hot here in Alabama too! Surprise, surprise. Glad you decided to join the Forum. Maybe we can find a way to meet in person some day since we are so near. Take your time checking out the site (Moosey/Mary has an awful lot and you can spend hours reading all her articles about Moosey's Country Garden), then once you are comfortable please post something about your own garden plans. Some of the most exciting times in the garden are at the very beginning when all you have are lovely visions in your head. That is where all our "perfect" gardens reside.
moosey
head gardener
24 Aug '07 6:08 pm Welcome, Butterflysue, and if you'd like to post some pix of your garden that would be grand. Wonder when you'll decide that two acres just isn't big enough? hee hee. Have fun, and pop in whenever you can.
gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Hi, ButterflySue!
6 Sep '07 6:42 pm Hi, and welcome from me, too!!
I'm retired and have a fairly small trailer park garden with a couple of roof gardens (I ran out of room! ). You'll find this to be, probably, the most friendly garden website around! I've learned an awful lot here, not only about gardening, but about gardening in other parts of the world and the differing challenges we all have. I feel blessed to have so many friends who care for each other so much and who visit when they can (doesn't happen often, but when it does, we all get in on it!! )
). You'll find this to be, probably, the most friendly garden website around! I've learned an awful lot here, not only about gardening, but about gardening in other parts of the world and the differing challenges we all have. I feel blessed to have so many friends who care for each other so much and who visit when they can (doesn't happen often, but when it does, we all get in on it!!