Spring planting

Susan, I love your thinking! I see all these beautiful pictures of dream gardens and wonder if everybody except ME makes a detailed drawing of their planned arrangment? DH keeps suggesting a written plan but I haven't gotten there you. It COULD still happen!

:) I admit I've made some indoor decor blunders in the past, so naturally my husband was very concerned when I decided that the time was right since the youngest was walking and I was going to start gardening.

He insisted that we get professional help for the "landscape plan". I hired a former gardening class teacher that I very much liked. We were already paying money for the consult and then my husband said yes when she suggested a photoshopped enhanced picture of what the garden could look like in her eyes and with her plan, so that was more cash. I still have that picture and not a thing on that plan has made it's way into my garden. There were pictures of huge grasses where my cottage perenials are and crape myrtles where my roses go in soon.

This past year I deceided that I was going to redo the colors on the walls since I couldn't stand what I'd let a decorator talk me into doing. My husband again suggesed that we needed professional help since this is what his mother had always done and what he was accustomed to doing and I asked him.... Did I plant one single thing in that garden that was professionally planned? "no" Was it the best looking garden ever and much better than you ever could have anticipated? "yes"

I have the colors on my walls that I love and they look great.

When i think of a garden Plan, I think of landscapers. Gardeners make their own way with the things they love and decide for themselves by observation of what they enjoy seeing. I was at a total loss when a friend descibed how she couldn't grow something she might like since it wasn't on the original landscape plan that was drawn up thirty years before.

You can tell whan you see a home if there has been a professional landscape package or if a gardener lives there. There is a difference. The love and passion for doing it shows clearly.

Susan

whew! soulgardenlove - well said!!!

Soulgardenlove, what wonderful insight! thanks, sharon

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Hurray for gaudy lorapetalum. Mine is blooming it's heart out. Razzelberry gets VERY LARGE. I bought three smaller lorapetalum too, more purple flowers, more purple foliage. Twice the neon for half the price at the loganville outlet last fall.

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