Are there any young people that garden?
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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 MoreA Young Pacific Northwest Conifer garden
Comments (18)Mike, and others, I appreciate your positive perspectives. While books, magazines and 'experts' create gardening 'laws', these are really meant for the uninitiated, those lacking ambition or those who don't want to wander too far off the proven track for gardening success. While I can appreciate the typical garden, I didn't want that for my own setting. People seem to want to be unique but a lot of them still seem to end up buying a red sports car, a blue minivan for the family and a golden retriever. Doing something different or unique is inherantly challenging and there is plenty of risk. There's certainly no guarentee that my gardens will turn out exactly as I planned them but per the cliche, usually life is about the journey, not the destination. As my gardens evolve, it will be interesting to see what worked great, what didn't work at all and what new things I try as opportunities present themselves. Hopefully however I mold it, my gardens please ME first and my neighbors/visitors second. I wouldn't want to live with a garden everyone else considered great if I myself didn't enjoy it. Mike I do want to say that your garden photos have had serious impact on my views and plans longterm. To me, it's a near perfect, lifelong project of intermixing a wonderful mature setting with collector and rare selections. I can't imagine designing something as majestic - but I can try! Here's a few more photos, I'm hopeful people enjoy them(but this isn't required! :) Pots, extending the garden onto the deck. My simply, but effective paths. Seperating shade from sun gardens. This grass is endangered! It takes too much water/pesticide/fertilizer/work, and it surely is holding back my collecting habit! -Will...See MoreYoung Sprouts in the Garden - Free - Saturday, May 30, 2009
Comments (2)Over 300 children attended, and they brought their parents... it was quite fun!...See MoreAdvice for a New Gardener with Young Kids
Comments (4)When my daughter was small one of the things she loved most was a teepee made from pole beans. I planted scarlet runner beans and a few others, some nastursums for extra color. She would hide in there and munch of the beans hanging down. Two big sunflowers marked the door. When she got older and wasn't likely to eat them I added morning glories. If I could cut poles big enough and had the space she would still hide in one at nine years old. I still make sure I have plenty of black eyed susans and daisys for her to pick. Things that will bloom again when you pick them. She now helps me dab pollen on daylilies and will pull weeds for at least a little while. I always pick of a few fairly indestructable plants for her to plant in a bed she calls hers. My daylilies and iris have sort of spread into it but I was good and kept them purple just like she wanted. When she started reading I would often get duplicate catalogs and we would sit together and pick out flowers and veggies we would each like to try. The gaudy and amazing statured things still attract her. We would each circle things and then compare notes. Still do. In the front of their elementary school is a perennial border of pass along plants. She often freaks a teacher out by giving the latin name of something and telling the teacher it's habits and soil preferences. I think I'm safe in assuming she will always garden. Considering all the things kids could be getting into it's not a bad thing at all....See MoreLaciRai
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