Tropicals & Tender Perennials: "The Epis Are Survivors, The Epis Are Survivors!! 2007", 0 by Happenstance

Happenstance wrote:
Morning All!

Missed taking a picture of 'Impossible Dream' when it opened, but there is another one coming tomorrow I think.

Gonna be a quick run to some local nurseries today.....just muddy enough from last night's rain to not be able to plant anything. Makes sense to me, wouldn't want to run out of things to plant. :-)

Yes, that is a corner of the garage in the picture with the wine barrels. There are a number of pictures of the house/emerging garden from last fall on some other threads. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/673728/ and prior to that http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/628707/ There are a couple of additional threads that are linked within those threads that go back 2 1/2 years to when we purchased the land. Enjoy!!

And some pictures of my Rose garden on this thread:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/677753/

Lots of rough edges still and big projects still not started.

Here's a shot from yesterday of the Rose garden. The rock trim around the reflecting pool still needs to be sealed which will make it darker blue/green. The reflecting pool took about a month to build, we were right down to the interior finishing when we broke the main sprinkler line and flooded the entire area....what a mess! Took days to dry out again. We've just started laying the gravel on the paths. Way too much bare dirt around the beds for my taste, but I keep reminding myself that we are only 5 months into this whole process of starting over. (Yes, I do miss my old garden......but my daughter now calls it The War Zone because of the devastation created from digging about 90% of the plant material. The fish are still at the old pond/house and once we can get them moved the tractor will go in and level the garden into a "normal" suburban grass/shrubs landscape.)