A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 Take a walk with me through my Grammy's gardens

I found these pictures from last summer today, and thought I would share them...

OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!
THOSE PICTURES ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

She's got a great garden
And who ever took those pictures,
has a great gardening eye!!!!!

Thanks, Weezie...I took them. I LOVED her gardens...

I'm uploading pics, and as I get them up, I'll add them here.

Wow, Sarah. Those are nice. And so is your Grammy's garden. Thanks for sharing.
~Tina

Those are great pictures..
And those statues are so cute..
***I LOVE the one where the cherub is shhhh'ing
the frog***

and she is one I'd be hangin' on to every word she said about gardening..
She's got a great eye for it..

****That's not the one that wants to sell her
house is it??????****

Thanks, Tina!

Weezie...it is. She did sell it. She said she couldn't keep up with the gardens anymore, and none of the family who lives over there would help her.

Waaaaaaaaaaaa.....

What a shame.. that's a breath taking garden..
picture book almost...

Did she get to get a new house that has a small
place to garden...
I'd hate to think she stopped all together....

I hope a TRUE GARDENER,
Or someone who can afford a gardener,
bought that house...
What a shame if they weren't....

***I had that happen 5 house's down from me..
There was this house for sale, and they'd always had really pretty gardens in it, nothing like your grammies, but a nice array of plants...
I was hopin' who ever bought it would only add to what was there...

They ripped out the entire one section of it...

She says she doesn't want to garden anymore, but I bet she changes her mind...how could you give up completely?

Have you heard of the show "brat camp"? The people who run the reform program for kids bought the house. We will see what they do with it...

I am cryin' nowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

But I will pray for those gardens as well...
That's alot of work put into those gardens..
I'd hate to think of someone ending all of
that time and hard work and love...

Tell her she can't quit nowwwwwwwwwwww.....
Man, I'd let her move in with me....
in a heart beat...
*well, she doesn't have any annoying habits does she??? I have 3 males here that can be tryin' and a mother next door... I might have to re~think that one... Just jokin' *

Oh Barley ~ How lovely!

Thanks for sharing so much with us...

Merme

Weezie...wanna really be shocked?


She lives in central oregon, zone 5, high desert. The soil is sand. Only sand.

I have learned a lot from her...

Unbelievable..
Sand...
What did she do to ammnend the soil????
and zone 5!!!!!!

(is this your dad's mom??)

How long did she garden there???

And where did she get all of her plants from?
seed or nursery??

It's my mom's mom...

Every year she added compost by the dump-truck full, and then topped it all with 4" of corse bark. She spent at least 2 hours a day out there watering everything...the whole property was 1.2 acres. Not all of it was landscaped, but a HUGE chunk of it was.

Here's the kicker...she had that house less than 10 years.

Ohhhhhhhhh cut it out........
10 years.........
I've been here 10 years
AND MY GARDEN'S DON'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THAT...
(Of course, I do alot of veggies...)
but stilllllll.......

And compost, I can never say enough about it...

I had a place deliver 2 loads of composted manure..
but I was not happy with it at all...
I wonder what was in her compost...

Oh, and she searched through every place that sold plants over there...and there is only one nursery...the rest was wal-mart, home depot, fred meyers and such.