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Posted: Jul/14/2007 1:22 PM PST
Hi, My name is June and I just joined today. I've started a blog and created an album with a few pictures of my garden. I'll try to take more soon and post them My garden is young - between 1 and 2 years but it's looking good because I've been a planting buying, digging maniac. I'm 67 years old and figure I'd better get it all in soon so I can sit back and enjoy it before my body falls totally apart! :-) I've planted mostly perennials in my flower beds, with lots of roses and I'm filling in with bedding plants like Petunias. Cosmos are one, if not my favorite annual so I've planted some of them to fill in between the peonies and II also have some bachelor buttons which I started way too late but I'm hoping I'll have some of them later this summer. I also have a vegetable garden growin in some terraces we built last summer as well on a knoll next to my pottery gallery. I'm also working on a little rock garden on that knolls slope. I also have a small orchard on our lower area which is like a sloping meadow. We lost 3 of those fruit trees this winter/spring due to the crazy up and down weather and a hard late frost after the trees were in leaf and flowering. If we have any money left over after building our new first floor bedroom suite, I'm going to get a greenhouse next year. The past two years I've started my seedlings in the basment under 4 sets of grow lux flourescent lights and they do pretty well down there even though it could have been warmer. Well, that what's happening at our house and in the garden. It feels great to find this site! June |
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Posted: Jul/14/2007 1:37 PM PST
Hey June! Welcome to GG from VT! 
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Posted: Jul/14/2007 2:28 PM PST
Welcome to GG from WI, June! Looking forward to seeing pics of your various projects, sounds like you're off to a great start. |
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Posted: Jul/15/2007 10:07 AM PST
Welcome from Seattle! Hope you enjoy the Blogs, I really need to update mine...I have a great post ready but OH YEAH I NEED TO GO OUTSIDE and take the pic I forgot, the finished orange tree I just made bonsai! Thanks for triggering my memory! Either way, Western NC is such a pretty place, like here...I grew up in Salisbury then on to Wilmington so I know! You will love it here, great crew and it will be nice to have another person to help all our new gardeners. We know they are hooked, they just have to get over that initial OMG what is wrong with my plant(s)! |
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Posted: Jul/15/2007 10:48 AM PST
Thanks for the warm welcome! I've been having fun perusing the forums and checking out everyones marvelous gardens! I just posted a few more pictures on my blog of some of the things blooming at the moment. After living 4 years in central Florida before moving here to the NC mountains, I so appreciate being able to grow all these beautiful perennials many of which are too challenging if not impossible to grow in zones 9 and 10. June Attachments:   |
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Posted: Jul/15/2007 11:21 AM PST
Hi there from Ohio!
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Posted: Jul/15/2007 9:28 PM PST
Welcome from northern California! Nice to meet you! |
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Posted: Jul/16/2007 8:17 AM PST
Welcome to GG, June! |
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Posted: Jul/18/2007 3:05 AM PST
Welcome, June, from the other side of the mountains. I'm in NE TN right at the base of the range. If I could jump real high, I'd wave. I'm a transplant, too. Except I come from the north - MI. As a perennial gardener, I'm having a blast with all the new things I can grow in this warmer zone. I've been here 3 years now, and the gardens have come a long way. It was a blank slate when I bought the place. Enjoy this forum. Lot of nice and knowledgable gardeners here. |
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