Our Beautiful Calabash Cottage by William Poole is completed
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Comments (31)MsMisk ~ love your purple/reddish cockscombs and those wonderful blue morning glories behind. Wow! Eduarda ~ I want you to know that I miss you being here. Ellen ~ your goldenrod and asters make a wonderful combination. I need to see if I can get some goldenrod to grow down here (zone 10 s.e. FL), as I don't have a lot of yellow and those looks so 'cottagey'. lindakimy ~ I love your blooms and your coleas are so wonderful too. Is that Russian sage in the background behind your yellow flowers? Michelle ~ Love your gardens and that we could see it from above. Your dear GD is a sweetie. It is still hot and humid down here in Plum Cottage gardens. When oh when will we get some cooler weather? They are predicting night time temps in the high 50's the end of the month. We'll see, it sure would be a welcome relief. I've been working in my potting garden. Setting up my mini green house and getting ready to plant some seeds for lots of colorful blooms these next 6 months or so. I've still got weeds to pull, vines to trim and weedwacking to do. I've said I'd like more garden space, but I really don't think so latley. Our 1/4 acre is plenty for me to handle these days. I don't want to be overloaded. I want to putter and enjoy our little haven. Happy Gardening ~ FlowerLady...See MoreA first year look at my cottage gardens!!
Comments (19)Thank you for the comments everyone!! :) I will have to take better pics next year but we do have "bones" and several bushes and trees throughout. The top of the front hill has Dogwoods outlining the top and a Magnolia (which is why I picked whites/shades of pink to compliment it which I hope it will next year) we do have a Rose of Sharon "hedge" in the back and we have several crape myrtles(3 or 4 we bought this past year), magnolias and such. I would never have evergreen trees or hedges tho, I strongly dislike them. The people who own my grandmothers farm put up a row of them to block out any views from the road and first thing I'd do if I bought it, would knock those suckers down and plant some nice Peonies or Lilacs and put in a nice garden. (thats a rant of mine lol) As for the hills, I would love slopes for drainage and such but these are a pain to weed. and I'm not going to lie,l I am using them sorta as a test of combining colors and shades of the same color...I am still learning every day!! The flat part in the back, if it was up to me, it be a path of gardens throughout leading to different areas like the vegetable raised beds or the tree/table where we sit and spend time outdoors. I am very OCD and I get anxiety from also not being organized or really planning something but Cottage Gardening really feels more free. Of course, I plan and replan but I always want it to remain an expression of me. It is my relaxation from the world, from work, from stress. It has saved me last year when I was so depressed and lost. I mean, I was just out of FIGHT. One day, I just decided to weed my old herb garden (my grandma had been badgering me since Spring last year) and suddenly I was out there everyday instead of worrying about my paranoia or worrying where to go in life. At the approval of my parents to start weeding out the hills and gardens my mom had and take over, it was like I was rediscovering myself with each weed pulled and every new plant dreamed up in my head. (lol thats just me)These gardens are great and I will keep at it but I can't wait to have my own small farm/house and completely have control over every aspect of it!! I will miss so many of these plants tho and will be smuggling seeds to start new ones when that time comes! LOL ~Michael...See MoreSunnyCottage, how is the ichthyophobia treatment going?
Comments (24)Sunny, I think greywings is on your side in her post :). I read it (as she clarified) as saying you are simply being too kind/forgiving of the instructor. I think the following: 1. I admire you SO much for trying to learn something new that you knew going in was going to be challenging and even frightening. I find as I get older I am less and less inclined to push myself and I give you much credit for doing that. 2. While I'm not a SCUBA instructor, my husband is a NAUI dive instructor and a divemaster for the marine-based national park at which he volunteers. He's got 30+ years experience diving and teaching. He has told me very often that the biggest and worst issue any diver faces is in panicking. That is especially true for people who are learning. I'm going to join greywings and several others in saying that your instructor probably should not have insisted you continue once you started to get fearful. He really took a risk there. 3. Last but not least, I am a certified diver and FWIW, 99 times out of 100 I still prefer to snorkel! Yes, diving opens up some beautiful vistas (perhaps not so much for someone fearful of sea life though). But the equipment is so bulky and you have to watch your time if you're deeper than 30 feet and it's all so cumbersome. I vastly prefer to put on a mask and snorkel, slide over the side and stroke lazily about looking at the pretties. Or heck, I love sitting at the beach under a nice shady umbrella with a good book, and the ability to listen to the waves breaking while glancing occasionally at the gorgeous view. For my money, that's a dandy alternative, and I hope one you like too! Ann...See MoreFirst coat completed
Comments (25)joann: thank you ! coming from someone whose home and garden is stunning I am pleased. mj: you come on down and enjoy. I had a bunch of my roses in huge pots by the pool for 3 yrs. They were needing to be in soil . I cut up the area between my neighbors home and ours and made a huge bed and filled it with the aforementioned roses. Everything is so happy now...me too. I will have to post a pic of the " rest of the garden" . Porch is almost finished...I am glad you like it !! Thank you. c...See Morecpartist
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