Any hints for garden tour? Please?
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my garden so bad, the garden tour people rejected it!
Comments (19)Well, you said it was sponsored by the local newspaper? Harumph! Newspapers-there's your first clue. I could write reams about all the things I dislike about news "services" and the disservice they do in a community. One-sided reporting, politically skewed editorials, ignoring the good and sensationalizing tragedy, publishing photos of people in the initial thoes of agony of loss. How these "news" people go home and call themselves humans, beget children, and have the nerve to show their inhuman faces in a community, I really don't know. Well, ok, even snakes lay eggs, so I guess I can cut them some slack on the crack about begetting. Advertising a garden tour, then to not even have the courtesy to let you know that your particular garden didn't fit the criteria, or that what they were looking for just wasn't located in your neighborhood, or that this wasn't actually a Garden Tour hosted by the Beautification Committee, but a Contest to see who has the best gardener hosted by the beautiful people committee. So instead of serving the community, your newspaper serves those who have money. I'm sure your garden is very beautiful, and I understand that the gardens that get toured often suffer a lot of damage in the course of the tours. Those wealthy people won't care though, they'll get to hobnob with the other wealthy people in their town and then they'll have their gardener come in for a little overtime next week and put everything right again. Even though you truely wished to share the beauty of your garden with the people in your town, sometimes our greatest blessings are our unanswered prayers. Cheryl...See MoreAny hint of a name?
Comments (4)Hello Donna I'm pretty sure I didn't buy the bulb so I guess it could be one of the seedlings from the seeds I was given. I grew it in the garden and all tags lost due to time. (I used to use plastic spoon as plant tags and they got broken and faded) Thank you Macroclemys for the suggestion. I'll check it out. Xuan...See MoreGarden Tour this Sunday
Comments (8)Well I guess no one on this forum lives in the area, or decided to go on the tour... You all missed a great day and some really fun/interesting gardens; running from the brand spanking new to 50 years old with continuous care and all natives. I found it fun to see a double lot urban Berkeley garden full of vegetables, fruit trees, chickens and rabbits, as well as rain storage systems, but also appreciated the sophistication of all the various protea family shrubs blooming in the front yard as well-something for everyone! In the two gardens I had on the tour, I must admit I got a little tired of answering the same plant questions all day long, but can tell you that if I had any of the Mathiasella bluperoides(the climbing Hellebore look alike), or Tabebuia chrysantha trees with the daffodil yellow trumptet flowers, or the giant Restio-Cannomois grande that everyone thought was a bamboo for sale that day, I would have made a small fortune. As it was I referred people to where they could buy them from friend's local nurseries, but suspect that most people simply asked because it is all a game where they feel the need to ask about what they don't recognize. I most truly enjoyed engaging with visitors who appreciated the design aspects, or remarked on the planting combinations, or just wanted to say that they enjoyed the garden. It brought home to me that it really does make a difference when wanting information from the garden owner/designer, to remember that they may already have answered this same question 100 times that day. I guess I could also have provided a plant list and plan, but have always felt that signs in the garden detract from the overall feeling, and found myself wishing that the garden docents had taken more of an interest and furnished the answers to share the load. In any case, it was all in all a very enjoyable day, lots of beautiful gardens and interesting approaches to garden design, and showcased the extreme variety of styles and plants being grown here in the garden mecca that is Oakland/Berkeley. The Secret Garden Tour in April of each year is worth the trip, in my view, and try and make it next year if you can, info can again be found by going to www.secretgardenstour.org. My personal thanks to the people at Park Day School, the docents and school staff and all the volunteers that helped make the tour go so easily. Oh, I should also acknowledge the clients who open up their gardens and allow a 1000 people to visit in one day, I really appreciate their generosity of spirit in sharing their gardens for the day. Maybe someone actually did go on the tour, and might have their own comments/photos to add, we shall see......See MoreNew Arkansas Herb Grower... nice to meet you. Any helpful hints?
Comments (22)Congrats on your new gardening adventure!! I wish I had easy access to horse manure for composting. Too bad you're not my neighbor AR Dramaqueen, I'd GIVE you all the perennial herbs you could want. Every year I beg friends and family and yes even strangers to come and take divisions from my yard. Herbs are very, very easy to grow in the ground but in my experience hard to keep happy in pots. If you can make a herb bed somewhere in the yard your herb gardening venture will be so much easier. Particularly when starting seeds, moisture levels are critical. You may want to check locally to see if there are any other herb gardeners close to you. Most gardeners are thrilled to take you on a tour and provide you with starter divisions. I still remember my dad taking me to a "yard sale" when I was about 10 years old. An elderly lady was selling her daylily plants in preparation for moving to a retirement village. We took an instant shine to each other and she spent a lot of time showing me how to pollinate flowers to make new hybrids, how to divide and set plants, etc. You could see that she had a lifetime passion for gardening and was happy to "set the seed" in another person. By the end of our visit to her yard I had a station wagon full of lovely plants and a head full of information. I don't know that she even let my dad pay her for the plants, I can't remember. I do remember that 6 or 7 years later my high school science project was on hybridizing daylilies and that I credited Pansy Corriher for the information and starter plants....See Morewoodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
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