I went for the first time last weekend and it is a garden not to be missed! If you want to learn what a particular rose looks like when fully mature, here's the place to go. You can see it in comparison to so many others too. How might it look in your yard? What does that foliage look like? What is the ultimate shape of the plant? As Eurodesert is closing, and roses are being sold all the time, there just won't be an opportunity again to see and be able to purchase such a variety of very rare roses. Some never seen in North America before. So put on a pair of comfortable walking shoes and plan to spend the day absorbing rose history and adding something very special to your own garden. Here is a link that might be useful: Cliff's High Desert Garden

You guys make a good team. I was hoping for a flowering hanging basket like DH got me last year. I got fake roses. :( It will be a cold day in Hades before he ever digs me a pond.) His policy is that I can do almost anything I want to the gardens, as long as I don't expect him to help me, and I keep in mind the needs of He Who Mows. Except for this one minor flaw, though, he's a great guy!

Your pets are indebted to you Helen, especially Honey. : ) If he knew how, he would've gotten you a present. Chloe thanked me by waking me up at 4:30 Sunday morning barking. My oldest daughter pulled weeds for me for Mother's Day. I didn't even ask. She wanted to surprise me. I think she knows me well. It was a great present.

For Mother's Day Weekend I worked at my local garden center. It was packed non-stop customers Fri. Sat. and Sun. It is such a wonderful festive weekend at the nursery, live music and free hotdogs. What I especially enjoy is the wonderful crowd that comes through.. everyone is in a great mood, happy and smiling. I did get a few small windows of opportunity to tweak my waterfall/ pond which continues to leak.. I just might have to tear the waterfall apart, again, and find that leak.. it's enough of a leak so that I have to top off my pond every three days.. fortunately the leak leads into my bog garden, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.. might just leave the repairs for the end of summer, cause I have spent way too much time on the waterfall and it's now time to get to the plants!!! I put in a raised veggie bed earlier in the week and was able to plant some veggies. Bought my veggie plants and hope to have them in within the week. So it's been a garden/ plant filled weekend with work around my yard and at the garden center.