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I was introduced to flower gardening
9 years ago by my great-aunt Leota
with her wedding gift of a hybrid tea rose named "First Prize."I ve been
hooked ever since, and I spend every spare moment in the yard, and First
Prize is still going strong!
My 4 year old
granddaughter is showing signs of being a lover of the
outdoors, too. I love to walk around the yard with her and teach her about
bugs, birds, colors, and life with my flowers. She loves to help me water my plants
(and sometimes she likes to water ME! LOL) and she loves to go fishing!
I almost exclusively grow perennials. I have learned a lot about them this
way and I like to get different things every year. I wouldn t want to have a garden
with only 4 or 5 different things in it!
I ve started a
garden notebook, with a list of all my flower beds and what s in them (common
and botanical name when possible), and I m about to begin inserting photos of
the beds with it. That way, in winter, I can look at what I ve got when planning
what I ll do next year.
My
most recent projects have been a canna garden in my back yard with paths and a
3-tier strawberry bed made out of a tractor tire, a car tire, and a lawnmower
tire... and I got the idea right here on the Garden Junk forum. Although now, the
strawberries have gotten so big that you can t even see the other tires unless
you re standing beside it!
I
have also recently installed my first water garden. I m SO
excited! I placed it against the end of my house next to the driveway,
just behind my prized Pee Gee hydrangea.......
I also just completed the Master Gardener
class in Feb. 2005. I can already tell it s
going to be fun.
I have a page on WebShots with albums of my flowers. Take a
look with the link below!
Gail
(aka gardenergail)
I live in: United States
My zone is: 7
First registered on April 22,2004.
