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I garden at 850 metres above sea level, with acid soil, and about 5 acres of garden (but only 1 intensively) plus 35 acres of unlogged temperate rainforest and meadow. I am interested and grow old roses, my guru being the late Graham Stuart Thomas, and although I grow very few, large leaved or species rhododendrons (this is mainly an arimchair interest); also deciduous azaleas which grow very well for me.

My garden, being country, has to exist on very little water so roses are dripped occasionally and consequently have never looked 'lush', everything is heavily mulched, and only new plants are given water. I have been changing the planting over to suit the reduced rainfall. It is mainly a spring garden: a daffodil lawn on which SPanish bluebells are still flowering in December after the daffodils finish (I cannot mow them until second week in December when the foliage dies), although when the maples colour in autumn I love it - I have at last count 31 acer, all Japanese, one huge one planted in the last century along with old conifers, hollies and alpine gums protecting me from the north wind, the forest protecting us from the very cold south-east wind.

I am extremely interested in Japanese gardens, having spent a lot of time in Kyoto, but it is the principles I would use here, not the accessories.

I live in: Australia

My zone is: VIC Aust

First registered on March 24,2005.