Flower Gardens

» Gay_Klok - Congrats!!!

Are you enjoying the new Suite

-- posted by Gay_Klok

» Georgene A. Bramlage - Congrats!!!

Gay,

It is nice to hear from you again

Georgene
(who can not resist keeping up with Barbara's article)!

» Cottage_Garden - Congrats!!!

Dearest Gay, Hello good friend! Wonderful to hear from you! Thank you!

Now that I am in Los Angeles I see warmer climate plants, camellias especially, and many Mediterranean and Australian trees and shrubs, and I often think of you and your amazing garden in Tasmania. And how is your garden growing? Do you have fall color now?

And how is your family? All well I hope.

-- posted by Cottage_Garden

» Cottage_Garden - Hi Georgene!

That is too funny. I thought the title of this article might grab you, but the topic is actually pretty narrow. Just the basics. In 400 words or less. LOL

:)

Thanks for reading!

-- posted by Cottage_Garden

» Gay_Klok - Tassie gardens and Family

Easter time. Hope you have a great break.

Family - All of us, ie 8 chuildren and 8 adults, [bar Sydney 4] are going up to holiday cottages on the East coast. Kees and I have told the Easter bunny where to leave the hard boiled eggs and the chocolate eggs [!]

Gardens became wild and unkempt when we were having a holiday overseas - An enormous lot of rain at the end of last year - I have an adult education class last April weekend and the following weekend a rather large gardening group coming to visit us at "Kibbenjelok" for the Autumn colour.

So, we have been busy, once more pruning the trees and bushes, even removing a few so people can move around with more ease. :=[

-- posted by Gay_Klok

» Gay_Klok - Cercis

Are you writing again at the Suite?

-- posted by Gay_Klok

» Georgene A. Bramlage - Cercis

Gay,

Yes, I am...still with the landscaping...no longer managing or editing which means more time for writing, photography and gardening.

Often think of you , your country garden and especially the platypus(es)...did they ever return?

I see our signatures have been chopped off...

So here is my link http://www.landscaping.suite101.com

Georgene (AKA Cercis)

» Cottage_Garden - Tassie gardens and Family

Happy Easter! What fun! How do you hide eggs on the beach??? So anyway, it is definitely an Easter Bunny and not an Easter Kangaroo.

I never let on about the whereabouts of chocolate in advance, things happen to it and it disappears!!!!

Maybe you could ask the students to bring tools and fastidiously hack their own way through the garden? Educational application and practice of theory under expert tutelage? Then the large group could clean up the trimmings -- every little bit helps and many hands make short work!

Oh my gosh. I know when I traveled so much the garden just exploded in every direction. Daunting.

Removing a few? How can you do it?!! Can you transplant?

I am just thinking of your lovely trees, the Japanese maples especially. They don't grow especially well here, it is so dry all summer and then too hot in the fall with the oven-like dry Santa Ana winds and they just fry. Add in alkaline clay soil, salty irrigation water and umpteen days of sunshine. Well.

And the big pond Cinderella? the neighbors problem? Recovering?

-- posted by Cottage_Garden

» Gay_Klok - Tassie gardens and Family

it is definitely an Easter Bunny and not an Easter Kangaroo.

I used to get them a bilby Easter "egg" - A bilby is a dear little marsupial [Australian] that is getting rather rare - a certain percentage goes to the "Save the Bilby" fund. Now the grandchildren declare they ony want eggs, they don't even like to eat bunnies!

-- posted by Gay_Klok