Southold Historical Society Garden Tour: July 9, 2005

Kylee,

Thanks for your sweet comments. It would be so easy to take care of them if we didn't have the humidity as we did this past summer. We lost too many gardening days to scorching heat and high humidity. Once I began getting up at 5 AM I found it so simple to do what had to be done but I was ready for a nap by 1 PM!

Arlene

Dear friends who posted in this thread,

My intent was to print out the entire thread but I felt it needed a very special touch to end it so it will go on until my second grandchild is born, about March 21st, 2006. A photo of my darling daughter is included here because "A thing of beauty is a joy forever".

Just as I had dreamed, it is official now, it's a boy! Whether he's named Charlie or not he'll be a joy for the entire family. Leslie (LaLambChop) has already gifted me with 'Charming Charlie' for our garden. It's a daylily, if you hadn't guessed.

Three months and two weeks to go before I post a photo of "my Charlie".

Thank you all for visiting and leaving such heartfelt, warm, thrilling comments.

Arlene & Jack Ryan

Carol it must be so rewarding to have soooooo much joy to give to others. I so want to sit at your tea table and smell the Asiatic lillies and count the varieties of Day Lillies. I so enjoy the open nature of your garden and glad the neighbors keep there fences away. You and Jack have so much to do together that, the soul mate thing just gets deeper every year. Or should we call it "sod mate". Love your long grass and clean borders on your beds. Thank you!

Thank you Soferdig. He is my "sod mate" as you so aptly described him. Now he's my paint mate as we do over rooms during the dead of winter and we're both exhausted just from taking this guest room apart and unloading books, pictures, etc., and will only begin the painting tomorrow.

As for the gardens the most scented are the Orientals and we have at least 50 or more of them but the most beautiful are the Japanese irises, not even our own hybridized daylilies.

Thanks for the visit.

hiya pirl,

A truly magical place you've created for yourselves. This is my seventh trip through your gardens, and I must admit I see something surprising and new each time I visit. The thought in planning is evident everywhere and the execution of the plan is exemplified by an extraordinary garden experience for a visitor. Thank you for sharing your space so generously, and it is quite evident that this garden will continue to improve with age as it is so skillfully maintained.

Both Pam and my higest regards,
don

Thank you, drdon and Pam. Our long days of hard work have paid off in so many ways. Perhaps the biggest bonus is that we get to enjoy it throughout the year, in all seasons.

hiya pirl,

Indeed, a four season garden is one that is truly well conceived, especially in areas of the world where the seasons are so well defined. Kudos *stands and claps* to you and yours for a wonderfully peaceful garden.

best,
don

Thanks again, drdon, it is peaceful and so beautiful when we get snow and I get the opportunity to photograph the same scenes in winter and the other seasons.

oh good, i see the tour is "back" by popular demand. your gardens and your strength and your uncanny ability to create beauty are such an encouragement to all of us here at dg. hail to pirl, queen of tours!!!

Wow! Queen of Tours sounds grand, Debi. Quite a compliment. I may think more seriously of hosting a neighbor's only tour this July with your sweet words ringing in my ears. Thank you Debi.

and of course, all dg'ers would be welcome as well, yes?

Absolutely - come on up to Sunny Southold. The guest room should be ready by then and I'll prepare the Breakfast of Champions for you either in the kitchen or on the terrace!

Arlene ~ I've finally had time to, once again, revisit your garden tour, and am even more awe-struck than my first visit. I don't want to leave!! You and Jack are an inspiration to me to stop dreaming and y get to work.....physically!! Thanks so much for hosting this fabulous tour!! Judy

Thank you, Judy, for your wonderful compliments. I'd love to be able to do it again, for the Historical Society's financial benefit, but given our ages and the years between the tours I doubt if we'd be up to it......physically! I do appreciate being an inspiration to others.

Pirl,

WOW, your work is stunning and inspiring. I simply love how it seems you've incorporated every plant variety under the sun! I love the blue hydrangea! And your row of trees is gorgeous. So neat that you have such a large property to work with. And nice to meet a gardener who's multi-talented (interested in vegetable gardening and the flowers). You really could (and should) write a book, including pictures of your garden, how you came about doing the tour, and specifically list the varieties you have in each picture. It would be neat if you'd do the tour at least once more, and have a guestbook that all must sign, you might have even extra your could incorporate into a book.

Any publishers out there? You might wanna snatch this up! =)


This message was edited Jun 1, 2006 2:29 PM

Good grief Aimee! Are you trying to lead me to an early grave? Just the thought of naming every plant (thinking of nearly 2,000 daylilies now) is scary.

You are generous with your compliments and I love every one of them. Thank you for visiting and for every word.

Yikes, didn't realize you had THAT many, see the photos don't do your garden justice, we all need to see MORE =)!!!!!

Aimee - maybe this summer I'll do just that: all 2,000 of them and put all of DG to sleep.

Maybe do each of the sections in your Garden Diary! Do it little by little and peo can read it that way too! Besides, then you'll always have pics of it all, with names! You have a beautiful place Pirl! ~ Suzi :)

Digital photography would make it much easier but I'd still have the time of day factor so I'd be chasing the sun all day but it's worth a try. Thanks, BriarRose74, for the idea.

Digital photography would make it quick like a bunny! I'm in favor of you doing it, too. Notice that I'm way down South and you can't hit me even if you were to throw something?

Still, running and ducking.... pant, pant, pant...

Carmen - you are always a gem! Here's what I think might be the problem: not all daylilies are open, in each garden, at the same time. If I have to photograph each one that's fine but then I'm left with explaining where each one is! That a recipe for boredom for the viewer for sure. Is there another way I can show what a specific area looks like in full bloom?

Pics of each garden area with most in bloom is fine... put the indiv pics into the plant files!! Put entries for ea garden area, with brief description, then links to the pic in the plant files.

Ea entry only holds one pic, so if put the links of ea into an entry, with overall view of it... Maybe couple pics of ea garden area, where some that were missing blooms were blooming in the other pics... Hope I explained that well... ~ Suzi :)

Oh Suzi - I wish I had THAT kind of time. I have 17 years of photos to be put in albums!

How about scanning in your garden map? Wouldn't that be a lot easier? Then you can add pix as you'd like.

You give me credit for things I have never done. What might be fun (for me) is to take a dozen photos in all four seasons from the exact same spot. A dozen could lead to three dozen and then I'm up to my neck again.

Then, do it!! Put one view of each garden section in there now. Expand the number of views? Add them later! Agree that it would be good to have the same view in dif seasons too! Just add them as you take them.

How does someone eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you get a lot of data into your garden diary? One section at a time! 20 min at a time!

I remember you saying you were a single mother once upon a time, as I am now. When we don't have time to jump in and do it, we have to do it 15-20 min at a time.

Go for digital!! It's much faster! Start anew! Go back to the old ones if/when you have time and inclination.

By the way, let me know when you do start so I can watch it unfold! Hope this was helpful!!

Sorry if it seems too bossy! I need to start applying this same thing to my house, now, before MBA classes (starting in May) keep me from doing that too! ~ Suzi :)

Thanks, Suzi! My daughter was the single mother for years, not me.

We do over a few rooms every year and I really have to finish up with the little odds and ends on the porch and attack a sewing project before I can start one more project.

When I start in I'll let you know. My digital will be a year old in April so I can start fresh. Thanks for your help.

Sorry - remembered you saying it, but got the details all wrong! Oops!! ~ Suzi :)

Pirl, I don't know how I missed this thread last year. The pictures of your garden are just wonderful. Your garden is fabulous! Sure wish you weren't so far away as I'd love to take this year's tour. Keep growing!

Thanks so much! I doubt if they'll have a tour this year - give it another six years.

If you're ever up this way please drop over. We'd love our flowers to meet you.

Arlene

Thanks, you never know! I am coming up later in the spring but I hadn't any plans to go out on the island. Besy wishes, Rosemary

The North Fork has many vineyards, farms, nurseries and farm stands, a coastline filled with beaches, cliffs, the sunniest village in all of New York. No waves, no mountains and certainly no valley to be found but it's "home".

It sounds wonderful and it's even in a warmer climate zone than north Georgia!

Well, roseone33, I don't know northern Georgia but we did have a great winter, not enough snow for me, but still great. Spring arrives too late for me and summer can be too humid but fall is wonderful and goes on with the beauty for months.

Oh no! I forgot the sunrises and sunsets!

Pirl,

Sorry! Didn't mean you had to take a pic of each flower! Just that I want to see more of the garden spots you have!!! I think a book that lists basically what flowers are in each pic would suffice, you wouldn't even have to elaborate with each name....just that they are daylilies. I just think you have the best garden!

Pins, you were too funny running and ducking. =)

Aimee,

Well, I'm quite relieved. Your thoughts about just saying daylilies definitely would make it all easier: THAT, I can do! Thanks for all the compliments. I will do more this year: I promise.

Pins is a joy! She loves to tweak me and is always running and hiding but she doesn't know that I'm so bad at aiming at anything that I'm shocked if I ever hit my target.

I do manage to bop our Harry (the Lhasa) but only because he's a sitting target!

On July 22, 2005 at 4:29 I announced the grand news that my daughter was pregnant and how I hoped for a Charlie in my life:

CHARLES ROBERT PASCA was born this morning, in Southampton Hospital, NY, to Kathleen Mary and Anthony Charles Pasca and big sister Megan.

He is named for my father and Tony's grandfather. It's also Tony's middle name and that of my late brother. The Robert is for Kathleen's father, who died last July.

A brand new baby on the first day of spring: God is very good!

GRANDMA AND GRANDPA ARE SO VERY HAPPY!

Congratulations! Wishing all of you the very best.

How wonderful!!!! Congratulations to everybody!! Send us pictures just as soon as you can. This is so thrilling!