Let's Catch Up

So many new things to catch up on. Yeah, Arootdugger blogger has been gone for awhile.. It is time to save the blogs. Just in case Google thinks about letting this one go, i cant let it go, so here i am back at it. There seems to be some missing formating, which I shall have to learn more about. I also want to make it easier viewing on your phone. Maybe I can release some drafts, which are already formatted. Oerhaps shorter posts. I;ve been caught up on viewing via You Tube. So much time has past, So there are many things to discuss What do you suggest. I'll see you soon. jo

Crochet Idea Has It Been Done.

I was thinking of my friend Lola who wrote me that she has been selling Doilies on EBay and has sold tons of them. Then like a true ADHD person my mind was racing along to what's online. Today I thought of a Christmas tree skirt.



http://compare.ebay.com/like/300245721502?
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aren said...

The skirt pattern I used can be found here:
http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1070831&postcount=2231

I used a H hook and did 27 rows. On the last row of red, I continued the double crochet st to finish it off.

http://karensgardenofcolors.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-tree-skirt.html

November 25, 2010 3:35 PM

More about the Harvey Property on the 2011 Garden Tour

More about 2011 Stepping stones Garden tour.

This is the one special garden I have been waiting to see. Here it says she has some rare Hostas. She admits to collecting. I can't wait to see the native flowers she said was there when they moved in. Lets see if the street view embed. works.



View Larger Map

If not how about trying this link.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=514+oak+parks+circle&hl=en&ll=44.859211,-91.923026&spn=0.000622,0.001357&sll=44.858966,-91.923185&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&layer=c&cbp=13,198.11,,0,6.97&cbll=44.859232,-91.922953&t=h&z=19&iwloc=A&panoid=Tpc78imHG9fBxKBTLpPHJw

.................Harvey's rare Hosta plant, which she plans to name Milky Way, is believed to be an offshoot of the spilled milk hosta. Once it is registered, Harvey will name the hosta and also can choose to sell divisions of the plant or create a tissue culture from it and make it available to other hosta growers...............

...............In addition to the Milky Way hosta, another unique hosta in Harvey's garden is the Sadie Hybben Harvey, a plant Harvey named for her late dog and for Menomonie photographer Pete Hybben, who helps her in the garden.
Harvey tries to recycle as much as possible in her garden, using leaves and pine needles for mulch............

I did go and sorry but I forgot to take a picture of the special hosta.


There has been curent articles in the papers and an appearance on the local news.
Links about the tour:
http://chippewa.com/dunnconnect/variety/article_f34b429c-a424-11e0-bb65-001cc4c03286.html

http://steppingstonesdc.org/2011GardenTour.pdf

Groups - Meyer Family

Cousins from Mothers family

One if them is from Mom's Funeral which has been awhile back. I have to make some decisions about how the blog works with a phone too. Take care. I'll see you later. jo

Nik in the middle - One of Those Days

Those were the days when the house was full of the sound of children. See below for one of those days.

We have the piano players Jennifer Gates, Nik, and Adam Fruit.
 Nik is wearing fake glasses.

A few more photos

Big sister and  little Nick 

My boy Nick

My son and daughter in law have requested some of his baby and childhood pics. I couldn't seem to get them uploaded onto facebook,  so I shall make a try here.

He is happy here.

It is a "save" under Nick's Birthday.He is standing in Colfax by the sign which gives the latitude location there.

Happy not sad in a Black and white Photo.

 

 Nick and Kelly [ Notice the pillows on the floor for their safety.

Sharon and  my parents Sylvia and Dwight Meyer with Steve Meyer 's boy  Justin.

A Rootdigger's Sunnyside Land Is Not All Sunshine

Good morning,

How's it in your neck of the woods?  Snow  here, but then  it's constant  this year.
We can't seem to get out to do any work in our gardens like we would wish to do.

Photo available - due to a steppingstones garden tour

             That rain barrel or another type of container is necessary in this garden so  I left it in this photo because it shows what's actually real in a gardeners life. It means that the  days are not all sunny in sunnyside land.. Or maybe sometimes too sunny for our needs.  The owner of the garden in these photos has been gardening on a very step hill with very low water pressure in her hose. And it fails to supply water to the top. I hope you can tell almost how high  up by this photo below.                                  

Looking down to the house below from halfway up

I've been wondering about all that  snow  this winter and rain this April,  if  it means a drier summer this year. Will we have a desperate need  for  rain barrels?

I don't need to run out and buy one,  I have one in storage that I have intended to fix up to my drain pipe and  to collect the rain water. My hose does run down a small hill. It can reach anywhere on my  long  garden area and has adequate enough pressure.[ Not that,  I wouldn't mind better ]
When I set mine up  I am going to keep in mind what the lady on the Larson farm did with her water tank. As an experienced Gardener,  she bundled it up to keep out the critters and maybe even the insects. You can't see it,  but she also has one on the north side of the log barn too.

Clematis Unidentified

Dry or wet in the the summer the clematis needs what it needs to look this beautiful. I never imagined having to supply extra  water this high up a very steep hill with barely any water pressure. I also have my own watering problems with a garden downhill from my water supply.  Keep in mind that when you connect the wrong hoses together running down hill  a long distance,  you also can lose water pressure. But I still feel blessed. since I saw the Larson Farm in Dunn co. Wi.

We'll just have to see what I get done. With rain or sunshine at my land I'll be glad when it's summer. If you live in the north, I suspect you think the same. How is Spring going for you?

A Tall Irish Tale

Top of the morning to thee. tis a tall  Irish  tale likely to be told on tis fine of a day. 
I don't think me  tale involves pots of gold, though thou may think  thou see them.

Even though it's happening seems  somewhat mystical and magical there ar no fairies or blarney stones.  I don't know if I should  even tell thou  may  simply disregard it as a yarn of  blarney. Tis true to me heart.

It happened long ago, so many hours ago as Me, Jenni Aloegist sat reading thee ol' Meyer heritage book so intent in me search. . While, Outside, dark it was with the snow coming down to the ground already piled high with snow. I made meself snug in me nook with a cuppa tea and a cholcolate biscuit or two. I had on her thinking cap, me family can tell you, I always wears it when I am doing me work. I stretched out as I read and read so many pages. Intent I was to find thee Katharina Margarethea Elisabeth hiding place. I wanted to find her and bring her into the light and place her in her proper place on the old family heritage book , so cherished by me family line of people who once lived in the old country at the time of kaisers
and kings..

Aye, If I knew if me dear Pap had lived to see this day he would be so proud to know that Twas me who had filled many a page in thee ancient  green book under the old names,  solving the ancient family mystery tales in the dark of the evening. Ttis true me had wished to meself,  so many times,  that if me had asked me dear Dad those details twas what he probably knew and kept to himself deep in his heart.  He didn't write it down, probably sure in himself's  mind that we didn't care to know. And of course me sadness rose again in me heart,  as It came  to meself,   how I  had disappointed him by showin a lack of interest. But I know'd I'd find her!.It was in me Dream. Me would keep at it. Checkin and recheckin.pages after page. I'll do it for meself and me old deceased Dad's Dream of family knowledge.
May his soul rest in peace.

Me  went back and forth all night till crack of dawn travelin in page and in me mind visualizing to where she  twas most likelyto have traveled. In Illinois with  city directories lists of Joliet.  States of Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska.  I ambled past the plains, mountains and rivers, but never beyond the sea. Maybe by his kin folk, maybe not.
I furiously wrote down at me ol weblog what I had seen and where me had been in wanderin an galvantin from city lists to city lists in me search for me mysterious greatest aunt. I searched for hours and retraced the steps I had other times used. For all me seekin I couldn't find her.

I had to record what steps myself had taken and wrote not getting up to eat or get another chocolate biscuit or more tea. Me was   achen and tired, but happy with what twas written so others could read of where  me had been and what me  twas planen on doin next.. Retracing meself steps, examinin as I tried to write me sentences the Alder bug had walked across me pages while  readin.. SWOOSHED HIM me did AWAY, Tis then he came agin. Twas he that landin on me arm and I twished him away. "Get away with yah " me said.

The Luck of the Irish

By this time I an old granny like can be a little crabby,  sore, a little weary,  and  little disappointed that  me dreams  efforts seemed to be for nottin. Others might call it despair. Ttwas Tryin  so hard and workin so many nights to  cracks of dawn, hours  with me hurtin in me  joints. Nottin stopping Thee little  Alder   bug was comin  back over and over as he had so many time. before. Never givin up.  His wish was to  just to crawl over me work and up my arms on to my fingers knuckles  and lookin at me as me had written  down me thoughts. .  Exhausted me was of him and the pages not gettin me what I wanted. Not inspired by it's tenacity in accomplishing himself's end.   I said
 "Aye Little   bug , here thou  ar sittin on my hand.  Isn't there somewhere else thou should be, shouldnt you be gettin there?.  If thou  have something else to do shouldn't  thou  be  be  a doin it. Now I don want to see thou come around again!. Off  thee should be. .Get  otta here, now.. Done.. Vamoose."
And flyin he went.

Huntin and gettin my readin stuff and me weblog notes. I said out loud in me little  world to hear  cause I was not alone in me room, mind thee.
" Could Elizabeth Stille be me gal, but she got  born in 1823. She don't belong to meself".
Out of the corner of me eyes I saw the   Alder brown bug with red coloring   approaching the center of  me arm  slowly gettin to me.face again and he  stopped  at me hand  looked at me in the eyes,.  His antennae  moving slowly. We'd be weary   cause he twas  stubborn!..

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Continuin on me scolding meself and me examinen the pages before me.wishin wish I could find her for meself. 

"Why do they keep pestering me with Mecklenburg locations in me  way."   "Arggg." 

And up thee Alder little bug went on to me fingers to the reading material and  stopped,  looking at me almost in the eyes, moving his antennae in my direction  and at the  reading material..

Okay I know'd as he looked into me eyes in me  face and he  twas a twiddlen his tentacles as he  was  sayen and tellin me to
"leave him be.  Please wouldn't  thee  spare me. I have family members  destined;  all wantin to be descendants  too". 
Didn't me know it  all too well  tis his ancestors rarely happened in his  little world. I felt sad for him  As I decided to let him be.  Twas  his little head a  noddin  at me and his little twitchin of  fear seemed to less for himself. And somehow me kindness  and goodness had  maybe grown and   gave  me  and himself peace.

 Workin on ignorin him as best for  meself.  He  halted an twas still. Maybe  silently communicating to me it would be all right as he was advancin  across the words on me  new page .  Little Alder bug moved his antennae and was blocking some of me view of the Stille pages and  then he moved again.
"Dog gone it's that Mecklenburg ludwiglust again, Tis the  Schwerin Mecklenburg census Now  I will be getting past that". Oh, Thou moved,  Lets see what tis it-- Margrete Stille born 2.2.1842 Tis her birthday  Eichdorf!!.
Me  Gettin so excited,  so I said out loud cause thou  and I know I wasn't alone.
" How many Eichdorfs tis there now. Tis better to  remember to look little  detail like that later. Me might as well see it. since Tis  Eichdorf  needs a looksee being the same Birthday and all..  Oh me golly, Alder,  tis true tis her me Katharina Margarethea Eliabeth born at Eichdorf. living in Mecklenburg Ludwigslust or in the very  Schwerin territory me  been blastin hatin  so long a time!"
"Why thou  Alder bug thou work thee  magic,   my  Dream wish has been granted". .
And he nodded again at me. an he  knew he granted me one wish for savin  his descendants pappa. Grateful, and happy  me thought again of me Dad and thinkin to meself how happy he would be to see one of his ancient  ancestors sister  had been found and placed by meself  Gennie Alogist,  in the ol green  family book just as I told yeh..
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And that's no blarney  tis  me story of  so many hours ago on that snowy dark night goin into the crack of dawn..
I'm  just havebeen  say'n don't get mad at something, cause  thou never know how it could make thee so happy.

Perhaps the Alder family later  had a family reunion picnic. Me thinks me saw meself in thee Alder Heaald  Newspaper.

~ ~ Needs a little editing   ~~
I have no clue why I  attempted to write in Irish when the family is obviously German.!!

Sources : : 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography

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Just remembering what spring and summer was.

~~ Life on the Sunnyside ~~

How are you doing?
 Hope everything is fine in your daily world. This is part of mine!

A Cottage gardem with White and Pink

Hi, Spring is here, and summer around the corner. Or at least it seems like it will be soon.  It's been a crazy spring. That delay, just gives more time to get in the mood and  figure out what I plan to do this summer.  I want to share some of my ideas with you. So lets get started.

 Okay. what your seeing is the eastern side yard at Jan's garden.  [You've seen her garden here before.] There is so much uniqueness. I love her fence for a start. her garden gate is tough, but still cottage style. What can be better than white and  Pink?. Honeysuckle vine is something I had heard about, but not seen. I like it. What I want you to notice here is the pink plants. Behind the Honeysuckle is the clematis, and I don't know which one it is.  I posted so you get a view of what I think is  the Malva because I'd like to try that light pink shade.

Also  maybe  this summer some of the  the miniature Hollyhock and  tall double Hollyhocks in shades of Pinks and white. I am not sure where yet, but it's have to be a rather sunny area..

We can see the  same grouping in more detail as I give you a view looking back. I know Gertrude Jekyll says you need a little orange in the beginning of  a  stroll through a border in a flower garden. do you like it?  I never would have thought to include it, it does seem to work with the yellow, and it works because of the yellow.  I  would never have thought to include it with all the pinks. All her other lilies are really lovely. I suspect some are Asiatic lilies. I've had those in the past, and they work for me.

I have been leading you up to this picture which  has more vibrant  more pink  with the inclusion of the  Brighter poppies of course  with some blue and yellow green shades. Her foxgloves are  the perfect shade . I wished I had asked  what kind they were. Again I love her lilies and,  well nearly everything about this border.The color combination  with  that glorious blue shade plant is just  Yum. I wish my view for you was larger, because it's worth it large. [ Give a click on it  to put it in another tab,  and see what happens.]

I really want to do something similar maybe matching  colors with the Malva plant. Maybe not a white at all, but the pink one. I'm just not sure what the blue plant is for sure. I suspect campanula Blue Clips. Some times a camera photo can mislead you. In this case my photo shares it as blue more than   lavender.

I think she has other Delphiniums coming later.  I would  have  thought to have white, but you know I like it without the white,  cause there is plenty  of white on the siding of the house  and fence.

You may not realize what other plants are  included in more of the garden photo shots that I was careful not to include with this romantic cottage type of flowers with  the foxgloves and  and poppies.

 Should I let you see  those  unexpected surprises of plants on the opposite  side,  further down the path as it heads  downward to the somewhat shaded back yard?.  Do you really want to know what I left out?

I am trying to decide,  if it is what I would include myself,  if I had those plants. [I can't seem to get this picture vertical,  so  we'll just have to deal with it, until I can turn it.] But see what I mean, the unexpected is that chocolate coral bell and the Astilbe. Evidently in Wisconsin, east side is shade enough for these. [We're always learning aren't we?] She also had shade  from a tree in the neighbors yard to the east of this side garden.

Well  now you can see what kind of decisions I plan on  making. One among many.
What kind of decisions are you facing with your garden?
Happy Gardening.

Who needs outdoor temperature gauges?

Hi, How are you doin?
I hope it's starting to feel like spring by you, it is here, although we recently got about three inches. The three inches are melting as we speak with all the sunshine. I don't mind all the snow, since it doubles the light receiving factor.

Who needs the outdoor temperature gauges?
Not me!
The only thing I do mind about the warmer weather is the increase of the box elder bugs. It seems, I don't have to check my weather page anymore, I just look to see how many box elders came into the house and if they are in the inside of the window. Those are my clues. Cause you know just sometimes the sunshine can be a bit misleading.

I know, now you can tell I have an older home, unremodeled, but I don't care.

In any case this hermit is venturing forth happily today. See you later.

Tips of Things Worth Knowing

Hi, How are you doing? I myself am really busy getting ready for the daughters birthday party this sunday. As I was cleaning I found a page from an old little booklet named 'THE HOUSE OF GURNEY' I thought I would share a tip or two from that page

" THINGS WORTH KNOWING"

--To keep ants moths and other insects out of closets or pantry,sprinkle the shelves and cornerswith Sassfrass oil, l and they will soon bid you goodbye.

--Blue Ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is a unfailing remedy as, as a coat of white wash is for a log house.

--If you value your own and your family's digestion, don't serve tea with fish. The tannic acid hardens the fibre and makes it indigestible. It should not be offered with any form of fish including lobster and crabmeat. Iced tea and soft shell crabs for example, are a combination that should be avoided. [In those days of the past there was not such a thing as Instant Iced Tea]

I suppose the housewife back in the forties kept a little bottle of the oil in her cleaning pantry. Don't you wonder how she got the sassfrass oil and if she made up the oil herself. Maybe she would get it in a little jar from her druggist.

I find so many of the tips outdated. But they are fun to read anyway, so I'll share a few more soon.

Well, as the supermarket clerk says "Have a good day"!

Dreams Are Made From Gardens Like This

The Jan Harvey Garden

In the year 2004 Jan Harvey's garden was featured in the annual food Pantry Garden tour. Years later now, the Garden tour is sponsored by the same organization, but with the new name - Stepping Stones. I was unable to attend at that time. In the mean time I had driven by and saw the possibilities of this garden's realities / fantasies for my own home . I had seen similar gardens in the Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and had hopes of what could lay behind the gate. It was my nature to dream of having such a example dream of a garden in my own yard. If the opportunity came , I could do similar since I had a small side yard like this on the south of my house where it receives sun most of the time except in the front where the roses would be.

In the mean time I was dying to see inside this garden to see, if I had similar ideas/ fantasies as the reality of hers. I was almost sure it was so. There was no way, I would miss seeing what was beyond that gate.
{ No I never went to the fence and peeked in. Wish I had thought of that. But then there are limits. lol}

Those photos that I saw of similar gardens gave me something to desire. It was a soothing to my soul. I have always thought that surely this garden is like those photos and I was right.

The owner of the garden offered explanations of the plants with Numbered locations corresponding to the additional pamphlet they gave us at the registration entrance. I regret not checking the name tag of one of the hosts there, who was exceptionally accommodating to our questions.

Click the pictures for the enlarged images, otherwise you really miss out. The small photos do no justice to the garden's merits. Most of these are not edited. To do so I would have to darken. I am sorry the light colors do get washed out. It's my camera and my abilities, which you will see are not so good.




The beginning with anticipation

Seen and unseen the walk contains Malva, Talictrum, Allium, Penstemon, Lysimachia, Filipendula, Astilbe, Lupine, Anemone, Alematis [maybe Clematis] , Tanacetum.

Which will lead to this circular bed ..........

Looking back to the entrance I am now being followed by a couple, which limited my dalliance over each awesome find. The garden walk was as it should be, a narrow path and I couldn't side step to allow them to pass.

A gorgeous lavender Clematis, with Pink and white. The daisies are perfect. On the opposite side I see she has the coveted Josephine. [I welcomed the opportunity to see it up front.]


Ahh, Poppies, foxglove, campanula, Lobelia, Lilies, I was so glad to see them. Imagine the Lilies evening fragrance.

All the colors and romance of a greeting card. All that's missing are teacups and saucers. Possibilities of a few well done crystal totems I probably would have inserted here.


Just love that coral pink color with the blue. One can never have too many poppies as far as I am concerned.

In this case, one has to stick with thin plants, with the other combinations. This works out just fine. This was the year to see all versions of the Creeping jenny in nearly all the gardens.

I didn't get to ask if her foxgloves and some other plants reseed themselves. I love them in the summer time. I may just have to have that lily.

Isn't this to die for, it almost makes me get into the Victorian mode. I certainly would swing into a Jane Austin mood. It takes a little work to keep those Hydrangeas blue. Unless they are the Nicky variety. [ Hope I have the name right] There is a similar one near the exit area,

You have to click this one to go ' ahh' gaga over those blue Hydrangeas! In addition to the great blue of the Hydrangea, there are touches of the yellows in their greenish tints and a bit of coral tinted pinks. Here seen and unseen are alchemilla mollis, Cornus below the steps are yellow barberry shrub, two and species of Carex, two species of Thalictrum, two species of Aruncus [ goats beard], Astilboides, and Korean Angelica.

These were exactly the color and plant combinations I had hoped to see and those I love. It lived up to my expectations and more.

So here now, we have arrived to the circular bed, just where I said we would. In the tour I went past here through an arbor down to the Hostas and other more shaded plants. Some areas are a little romantic and worthy of my little tour here, but sorry, this where I end it today, since I was mainly showing what I liked of her examples for my side garden, if I ever were blessed with the opportunity of creating something of my dreams made from this garden.



Now I see having a little shade there in the front of my house is not so bad.

You might get a glimpse of a photo or two later, when I do a post on the fencing ideas that I liked about her garden.

If you didn't click, you missed out. Really.

just me jo

More on the Harvey property in the Garden tour

More about 2011 Stepping stones Garden tour.

This is the one special garden I have been waiting to see. Here it says she has some rare Hostas. She admits to collecting. I think there is a special breed of Hosta gardners who do that and even more so raise their hostas from seed. I would think you have to be a dedicated hosta gardner to do that. I can't wait to see the native flowers she said was there when they moved in.

Lets see if the street view embed. works.



View Larger Map

If not how about trying this link.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=514+oak+parks+circle&hl=en&ll=44.859211,-91.923026&spn=0.000622,0.001357&sll=44.858966,-91.923185&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&layer=c&cbp=13,198.11,,0,6.97&cbll=44.859232,-91.922953&t=h&z=19&iwloc=A&panoid=Tpc78imHG9fBxKBTLpPHJw

.................Harvey's rare Hosta plant, which she plans to name Milky Way, is believed to be an offshoot of the spilled milk hosta. Once it is registered, Harvey will name the hosta and also can choose to sell divisions of the plant or create a tissue culture from it and make it available to other hosta growers...............

...............In addition to the Milky Way hosta, another unique hosta in Harvey's garden is the Sadie Hybben Harvey, a plant Harvey named for her late dog and for Menomonie photographer Pete Hybben, who helps her in the garden.

Harvey tries to recycle as much as possible in her garden, using leaves and pine needles for mulch............

I am sure to enjoy it. I can't wait to see ponds and the use of rocks. It could rain. Which could be good news.

There has been curernt articles in the papers and an appearance on the local news.
Links about the tour:
http://chippewa.com/dunnconnect/variety/article_f34b429c-a424-11e0-bb65-001cc4c03286.html

http://steppingstonesdc.org/2011GardenTour.pdf

Last year and this years local Garden Tour

Click on my pics today to see some of last years garden tour - I don't get a chance to share them often enough

And later I will tell you just what kind of Flower Beds I will see this Saturday on the annual Garden tour that I just might share here?


I have been very excited about going to the annual garden tour this weekend. The money is money used for the local food pantry, so it's for a good cause as well as our enjoyment. I went last year and after that, I have posted a few pictures. I took many, and the little I have shown are merely a snow flake in a blizzard.
I have kept my pictures on the camera disk despite the little room I had remaining for this summer pictures of my own garden.

With the tour coming up,I have been worrying these last few days about lack of space on my card in my digital camera. I am going to have to hurry and figure out what I am going to do. I want to protect some of them. A few years ago my computer burned out, and I had no opportunity to save my pictures off the hard drive. So I was thinking of finding a program of some sort something like photo like photo bucket. Or even entering them all into Picasa where all those from our blogs are stored. But no matter, it's not your problem. I'll figure it out.

As I was glancing through the different garden photos the topic for this blog post came to me. The types of the various gardens seemed be running similar.

Last year there seemed to be a lot of gardens with raised planted spaces.
As you see here in her back yard it's raised due to a buried waste system. Their garden disguises it well. Her little hill curves around nearly half the back yard.



In this case she raised the bed next to the shady woods, which she also landscaped.
It's so much easier to see the detail. I wonder if the deer can reach them. Would they jump up there to reach them, probably not.

It's gorgeous anyway with the added rock and moss. In the photo above it is much lower than the previous raised bed we just saw. But still she couldn't resist more rocks and moss.


Another clever gardner made good use of space. What I like about this plan besides the arrangement of plants on the slope; is the fact that the door gives an exit under that Deck.

This is the same slope but further down. I love the Pink roses and surprise of unusual plants.

They may seem a little busy with so much but, If I remember right I think this was also a Memory garden.

Again instead of the box store type preformed rock like building material she has used real rocks which gives her a wall, and a ledge with lots of personality. I especially like those fuzzy white like plants. Kind of like angel feathers.

Well that was last year and it did include some pretty Hostas and falls and ponds.


Now this year I get to anticipate some thing other than raised beds. Okay flat ground, well not in Wisconsin. Not all through the garden. This year there will be some sunken garden spots and ponds and water falls and lots of Rockery.

So we will be looking down rather than up.
And Hostas galore, one can never have too many Hostas.



More tips,tricks and ideas are always nice. I am glad I saw this picture from last year, it reminds me to make some wire cages for my phlox.




So now, I had better leave you and get some disk clearing done. As well as a few other things, if I am going to be off playing garden lady Saturday.