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This is my garden

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People have been asking for pictures of my garden as a whole, so here are a few pictures that I took way back in 2003.

I have 60 rose bushes between the front and backyard gardens with the majority of them being in the backyard. However, since these photos are from 2003 the roses had not yet reached maturity. They are perhaps 2 feet tall. Now, most of the roses are 4 feet tall or larger. Some are almost small tree size!

This is an overhead view from an upstairs window. Approximately 1/3 of the garden is not seen in the photo:

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Here’s a ground view of the middle to back of the garden on the left, and the patio area on the right:

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Blogging from the Garden

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I’m finally able to do something that I’ve wanted to do every since I started my beautiful back yard garden in the spring of 2002. I now have the ability to bring my computer outside and sit in the garden as I work on my computer, websites and while answering e-mail.

Yes, that’s right folks, I’ve finally joined the ranks of laptop owners!

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I took this photo last night after I brought my new laptop, aptly named Tricia’s Toy, outside for it’s first visit to the garden.

leafy growth that you see to the right of the patio table is that rose, Antique ’89, that I nicknamed the monster in one of my earlier posts. The monster has one cane that must be approaching 16 or more feet tall. It’s huge and it’s thorny! I have my scars from my battle with her a month ago.

So now, while the weather is nice, I’ll be posting to this site live from my garden Internet cafe. I’m hoping to be inspired!

Oh yes, I also got another new toy last week. I bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 and I’m loving it so far. The quality of the photos that I’ll be posting to my sites will likely improve substantially. If you want to see the latest photos as I take them feel free to visit my flickr site.

Finally

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All of my annuals are planted!

I can’t believe that it took me so long to get it all done. I bought the majority of the plants at the beginning of May. It’s never taken me this long to get them in the ground or in their planters before. Tsk tsk.

The good news is that the majority of the plants somehow survived in their tiny little cells of earth or peat moss – whatever that stuff is that dries out so very quickly. They even managed to grow and bloom. I think they will take off now that they are in the ground or their new containers. Their roots can spread out and they’ll finally be happy for the rest of their short lives.

I even managed to divide my Cannas that I had growing in pots. Two large and over grown cannas became 5 plants.

I did buy one more plant today. It’s a Star Jasmine. Well at least I think it’s a Star Jasmine. I purchased it at Home Depot and if you are a gardener or home owner, and you’ve ever purchased plants there, you know their labels aren’t very specific as to species or even care guidelines. The tag said jasmine and it definitely is a Jasmine. It’s viney so I’m assuming that it is a star Jasmine. When it blooms I will find out.

Now my garden will be really smelly. But in a good way. Roses, two jasmine, fragrant Nicotina, and white four o’clocks that also smell a bit like jasmine. Mmmm I can’t wait for all of them to start blooming and giving off those luscious scents. Well my roses are blooming … but I’m dying to smell those jasmine and jasmine like scents. That fragrance makes it so enticing to sit in the garden in the evening and relax.

I hurt my right knee very badly on Saturday and my leg is wrapped with two tensor bandages from just above my knee to my ankle. So it was quite a feat to accomplish the task of getting about 300 plants installed into 16 plus planters and into the ground – considering I can barely walk. My husband helped … if he hadn’t the job would still be waiting and I fear the plants would soon die. We are going to have a heat wave in the next few days and the job just had to be done.

Now all I have to do for the rest of the summer is feed, water, occasionally trim and most importantly enjoy the garden.

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