7 Oct '07 2:07 pm Hi, Pumpkin- What great pictures from your garden! Loved the ones of the duck families! It seemed odd to me to see the blue irises, which I have also in my garden, blooming with a palm tree in the background! Also to see kniphofias blooming so early in the season! What variety are they? I'm envious of your wisteria since mine has yet to bloom at all!
Please keep the pictures coming as the season progresses for you!
Cheers!
gordonf
Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Spring things
8 Oct '07 5:50 am Hi Pumpkin, I loved seeing your spring flowers and your many duck chicks. How many all together have you had this spring? I think common sense has prevailed among my flock and there is no sign that they are going to have late fall chicks. I think that's probably for the best since I would worry to destraction about them when the weather turns cold. I hope you will post more pictures as new things pop out in the garden.
Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Lovely moments...
8 Oct '07 7:52 pm Pumkin, dear, I SO very much enjoyed seeing/learnig about these last Springtime moments of your garden!! The dam becoming a pond, for me has been the wonder in your garden! Not just because you worked SO hard to create it, but because now you are So richly rewarded by Mother Nature and its beings!Just post some more captures of these wondrous flying visitors, apart from your Daisy and Dixie with their adorable babies!
Your blooming captures are so Springtime shining!! Your Poppy bud is so cute!! Your pretty Butterly Lavender has a gorgeous scent, I guess...Such a pity , that this lovely Lavender is not frost-hardy for our Winters here...
Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Picking up stompies
9 Oct '07 12:38 am That, dear Pumpkin, is a South African expression, meaning 'picking up cigarette buts' used when someone comes in at the tailend of a conversation and doesn't know what is going on...
I had to go back to the very beginnings of your post and discovered:
(1) the saddest story of the year, the loss of your tree
(2) the most romantic picture of the year, your willow tree reflection.
As I started to download the photograph I thought you had shot it in sepia and airbrushed out some of the detail at the top of the picture... but as it grew I realised I was seeing it in 'real colour' - a prize-winning picture for sure: it has everything - simplicity, subtlety, atmosphere, composition... and I love the LACK of planting around it.
Now here's stirring: how about a second water feature for all the stream-side plants you had in mind... (Strange that this is the best pic I can find on the net for one of the most gorgeously simple gardens (If somewhat grander than we're talking here ) I know of..
Anyway - thanks for an unexpected discovery - keep posting!
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