My neighbours - Cheerio Gardens

7 Sep '07 9:32 pm

Back in the 70s I remember going to see the neighbour's open garden and saying: she's crazy! She's changed the whole valley into a garden! I will tell you the story in more detail at a later stage. Time presses right now. All I'll add before posting a first few shots is to say that being higher up the valley than we are, much of their garden is above the frost line, and they are a good 2 weeks ahead of us after this VERY cold, late winter. However the last week has been warm - hot, in fact - and winter is over at last!

8 Sep '07 9:59 am

Ha! Gardening women are never ever crazy, even if what they try to do seems to be... And what a beautiful name for a garden! more pix, when you have time, would be great! Thanks Jack.

10 Sep '07 7:11 pm

This is one of the best magnolias I know - I assume a particularly good M.x Soulangiana (sp?), but perhaps someone has other ideas?

This is all a bit cryptic, as I'm doing it "in between" work!

10 Sep '07 8:08 pm

First come the crab-apples. Later come the flowering cherries. All the way there are the azaleas.

10 Sep '07 9:50 pm

Wow, Jack!! What a beautiful display of early Spring colour!! I bet, there are Springtime sweet scents, too, all over...The capture of Magnolia on the sky is SO pretty!

11 Sep '07 2:07 am

How fortunate you are to have such wonderful garden neighbors. And, by the way, I can think of someone else who might have turned their whole huge property into a garden. Any idea who? So who's crazy now?

11 Sep '07 6:31 am

Magnolias have such elegant blooms-I have three and eagerly await.One-white magnolia stellata- has flowered already and the others have lovely big buds.I like the photo set against the blue sky,Jack
Dixie.

12 Sep '07 2:31 am

Now that's what I'd like to see one day when I wander about my "grounds" (dreaming again! Rolling Eyes

) I particularly love your "All down the valley" photo as it looks like everything has turned a lovely, subtle shade of pink! Gorgeous!

25 Sep '07 10:13 pm

Last Saturday, as I've said elsewhere, we had a Rotary function at Cheerio Gardens. On Sunday the dogs and I walked up early to capture the beauty of these gardens in all their splendour. Between us and them lies Cheerio - it is a triangular piece of ground which comes down to a stream frontage of not more than 250m. And in this first post we are making our way up through Cheerio towards the piece de resistance. Azaleas overwhelm one -and I've included many small pics of overwhelming azaleas along the way.