Northeast Gardening: New garden projects and retirement :0), 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
Those of you who know me may or may not know that I have had some health problems (fibromyalgia) and my employer was allowing me to work from home 2 days a week. Lately they have been giving me some grief and it has also been almost impossible for me to get to the office the 3 days I'm supposed to be there. So rather than fight any more, I have decided to retire early. The more I think about it, the more I know I have made the right decision. I will have more time to spend with my husband, who is already retired, and ... MORE TIME FOR GARDENING!! My last day in the office is technically May 23rd, but I have vacation accumulated, so I am off May 7-23. Feels good already!

AND I am very excited that my 2 BIG new garden projects, a rose garden (40x22') and a cottage garden (70x6') are finally underway. I have a landscaper building the beds and doing the hardscaping, but I designed them and will be doing most of the planting (slowly, at my own pace).

here's a link to my journal for the rose garden

http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/viewbycat.php?cat=39875

and for the cottage garden

http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/viewbycat.php?cat=46779

today they removed the sod from both beds and they are going to start building the stone walls tomorrow

spring is really here and I'm in garden heaven ~s...mile...s~

jan (aka gram)