Southold Historical Society Garden Tour: July 9, 2005

Pirl,
Thank you for taking me on the tour of your lovely gardens. I can see that experienced hands and keen eyes have been at work here with all the textures, colours, varying heights and precious details.
Your grandson, Charles, is a wonderful baby and if he should ever be interested in gardening, he would have no better teachers than his grandparents.

Thanks,
Erynne

How sweet of you! I'll tell Charlie!

Thank you.

Pirl

Here's my favorite photo of Charlie as he was eyeing up some birthday cake and ice cream at a party for Megan (my 15 year old granddaughter, Charlie's big sister) and I. We're a day and quite a few years apart.

How adorable! I love those huge eyes and all that hair!

Arline I am absolutly in awe of your garden. It just perfect and to think you two
do it all youselves. I lost my husband in 1966 and my daughter penny was born two
weeks later. I know how thrilling it is to have grandchildren.I can hardly wait to meet you
I'll try to find a picture of my bird bath. It cracked during our long cold and snowy winter.

Pins - we are enjoying him so much. He's crawling and sitting up already but his favorite thing is standing. If we hold his hands he knows how to continually put one foot in front of the other so walking isn't far away........all this before he was 6 months old!

Joy - Thank you for your compliments. We only hire help to cut limbs and another guy to do the lawn while we're away on spring and fall vacations: winter vacations are not a mowing problem.

You seem to have the knack of making lemonade out of lemons as shown by your beautifully done birdbath and your fortitude. We're anxious to meet you, too!

Here we're pictured, in my daughter's garden, 25 years from the day we first met.

I am here at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our flowers have been waiting to meet you, Mark!

Awwwwwwww you say the sweetest things Arlene..............!! Thank you!!

Oh you have such a lovely garden Arlene........................ would love to come and look round for real......!!!

You'll find us doing spring clean up, spring planting, summer deadheading, fall panic planting, Jack reseeding bare spots in the lawn or else enjoying good books, plant catalogs and chatting by the fireplace in winter if we're not traveling, enjoying a visit from the kids or talking to granddaughter Megan, now the first place winner for a doumentary she made with her friend, Quinne, or playing with Charlie.

What a joyful time spent looking at those pictures, taking in the flowers, landscaping, hand made structures and getting inspiration. My favorite picture, if I have to choose one, is of the entrance to the house. I love the way you have balanced things so the eye is drawn in toward the house. I also like the distance shots that show the curve of the gardens against the healthy lawn. The oval island near the street is the first oval I've seen and I wonder why I have not seen more of that design around. Very graceful and a good departure from the expected circle.

Thank you for the tour. Someday, I hope to see it for real! Lillyo

Thank you, lillyo, for taking the tour and for all your lovely compliments. It's a constant work in progress. You're always welcome to visit. We're just a ferry ride apart.

OMG Charlie has not lost his hair or his looks!! He must be coming up on his first birthday soon, isn't he? I hope we'll see a picture of him on his big day!

His hair is less dense now and lighter. He's been walking since Dec. 31st. I'll find my favorite Charlie Christmas photo.

He is a beautiful child. You must be having so much fun with him, especially with the gardens being a little "under the weather"!

Yesterday they were under the ice! Poor Charlie really wants snow for his sled. This is so pathetic.

Oh my gosh, I'm only on the third post of that link and already I'm sooooo impressed. Not only with the garden but with your little letter, scavenger hunt, and the welcoming feeling you greeted the guests with.

Gwen

I can't believe you count your deadheads! LOL I'm just loving this....back to reading....

Gwen

I was hoping there would be a photo of the sweet baby at the end! What a head of hair. Is he about two now?

Gwen

Now I see he's more like just turning one. What a cutie. As is his older sister!

Thanks for the wonderful tour. It made for pleasant afternoon reading!

gwen

Thanks for all the lovely comments, Gwendalou!

Charlie just turned a year old on March 20th - the start of spring. Megan will be Sweet Sixteen in July. Here's Megan and her friend, Dallas.

..........and Charlie!

That's my son to the right, Kevin.

pirl, i just strolled through your garden again. thanks so much. it's as fresh as the day you took the pictures.

You are too cute. Photos do have a way of remaining the same, don't they?

quick, take a picture of me! lol

I can do one better - it never ages.

oh my! i'm honored to have that picture on your thread...bowing and scraping......

thank you, (((pirl)))

KNOCK ME RIGHT OUT OF MY SOCKS! And that's pretty hard to do. I came over here to see this thread and it's been over a half hour that I've been looking at photos of the perennial beds to the veggie garden to Charlie! This is an all time record for me. I have never spent this much time in a thread. Incredible work. Never could I even attempt to recreate any of this by me. Wish I could, but no way. Masterful design down to the littlest detail!

i told you...lol

Even her veggie gardens are neat and orderly. I bet she's one of those women who has a neat and orderly underwear drawer!

roflol, she mentions her underwear in an old rose thread. i believe they're animal print of some kind.

sorry pirl. leave it to me to turn your garden tour into a tour de force.

You would have to remember that! They were night wear not underwear!

Debi first posted her peacock, to my knowledge, in the summer of 2005 and I've admired it since then. She's the inspiration for so much of what I do because she sees things in every day life with an extraordinary eye for art in the garden.

for you...my dear friend...

You're so sweet. Thank you.

pirl - I especially appreciated the long view picture that you first took (and that you later stated you wished to replace with another shot). That photo really shows the lay of the gardens, how they curve, and the wonderful lawn walkways.

I really like to see the overview before I view the individual flowers.

Your garden is both HUGE and AMAZING! Both you and your husband are to be congratulated for creating such beauty. Now - all I have to do is think about how I can get a light set up for seedlings built in my basement . . . :-)

Thanks for resurrecting this thread! I get to look at it all over again!

Thank you, Michaela, for all your praise.

Lauren, thanks to the trees you sent our gardens will be even nicer in the future: thank you!

Yes, nice to see this thread again Pirl. You and Jack are amazing! Wish I had the energy and drive you guys have.

Lauren, nice to see you! Figures you're friends with Arlene. Nice people find each other.

Thanks, Victor! If it lifts your spirits I'm just getting ready for bed and it's just 7:30! I'll try and make it to 9 PM - no guarantees.