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Posted: Aug/11/2006 9:58 PM PST
What's blooming at your place right now? If I weren't in front of the puter, I could be watching the bees work the beebalm, or see mirabilis unfolding or the skippers flitting about the black eyed susans and coneflower. Actually, the mosquitos are enjoying my garden a great deal more than I this time of day. LOL I've been hitting the herb guide for a couple of days now, and just noticed on a page there are forums, so I thought I'd come say Hello.... I garden in Upstate NY now, but I've lived all up and down the East Coast of the US and had a lovely garden outside of Frankfurt Germany for a while. I'm currently working on rehabilitating a historical herb garden at the local museum, as a volunteer. Budgetary cuts have left a beautiful Tudor style garden neglected and rather sad for the past 2 years. I could almost feel it's tenative smile when I started clipping back overgrown ivy and herbs. The groundskeeper clipped the boxwood yesterday, (10 huge bags of clippings for the compost pile) and next week, I'm meeting with a consulting Rosarian, to get some specialised knowledge on bringing the roses back from the brink. I look forward to getting to know you all, after all, have you ever met a gardener you didn't like? Here's a shot of one bit of the garden, before much had been done. The ivy arches are now tidy and clipped, and the box is trimmed and neat. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/grenwi ch/PICT0066.jpg[/IMG] |
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Posted: Aug/11/2006 11:55 PM PST
Hi Kim and welcome to GG You sure are right about never meeting a gardener you didn't like---So you are going to find a lot of people here that you are going to like. Wow that is some garden you are tending . What is the ivy trained on . You should plan on doing a trimming of the box woods around Christmas time and sell the bags of trimmings to a local florist , they pay about $35.00 for a fruit case full of box wood pieces . Boy 10 bags of it would have given you plenty of seed money to help bring the garden back into shape Looks like you got a good start on it as it looks really nice . see you around the threads. swindyi |
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Posted: Aug/12/2006 12:01 AM PST
Thanks!!! The ivy is trained on metal arches, some of which are rusted through, sagging and looking mighty sad indeed. The worst of them have had scaffolding supports added, so it hasn't fallen down entirely...it took me a week to clip the whole thing, but it has been completely worth it so far! What a GREAT idea on the boxwood - I may have to clip a bit in December anyway, that is, if I'm not under 3 feet of snow. lol. |
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Posted: Aug/12/2006 12:26 AM PST
You do get a bit more snow up there then we get here . Where up state are you? swindyi |
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Posted: Aug/12/2006 5:24 PM PST
Hello Kim, welcome to GG. That's quite the project you have going there. Please update as the work progresses. |
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Posted: Aug/12/2006 6:24 PM PST
Hi Kim and welcom to GG.  The garden looks very promising. Good luck!
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Posted: Aug/12/2006 11:38 PM PST
Hi and welcome to GG, Kim. that garden looks darn good! did you take any 'before' pics?
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Posted: Aug/13/2006 2:23 PM PST
Thanks for all the welcomes everyone!!!! I think I'm going to set up a journal for the garden, and post more pics that way. It's definitely a great project, but today, my garden gets some attention - lol. Off to pull some weeds.... |
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