Garden planning

[Chandra Amaya]

does it count to be a "wanna be garden fanatic". I'm still doing the trial & error learning how to do this but I love gardening so much I want to plant. Do you take care of all of these plants yourself?

[rivermom]

Awww Tink ~ How fun !! Your garden is going to be absoutley breath taking and you must take pics when it's mature!!


I love gardens of all kinds -

[Tink]

It certainly does count to be a gardening wanna be! I think that's the best most of us will ever be! I include myself in that category too because there is so much I don't know and every year I learn something different that works better than the year before.

My hubby loves gardening too, but he's home so seldom, that the lions share of it does fall to me. He's wonderful about helping with the heavy work and would love to have a much bigger veggie garden than I do. I prefer to focus on my flowers. so the veggies are kept to a minimum because I simply don't have the time or energy to take care of it all, so know better than to even try.

As for the flower beds, I plant things thickly because I prefer the way it looks and it cuts back on the weeks considerably. This way I get more bang for my buck and don't have to work as hard.

[DianaB]

It sounds like your yard is going to be beautiful!!!! I've given up on mine. I'm not even sure that I'm going to buy flowers this year except for a hanging basket or two.

[AngieDoogles]

Tink, it looks like you are going to have an amazing garden!!

[Janet]

You'd think I would have learned a lot more than I have being married to the son of a florist. The Knox Greenhouse buisness was started in 1894 and continued until just this past summer after the death of my father and mother-in-law. My brother-n-law is a Florist in Illinois.

I love planting flowers although not real good at it. I've always had a veggie garden until a few years ago. I'm considering planting another, but don't know if I want the extra work. I would really like to have more time to sew.

[Mandy]

Tink your garden sounds absolutly lovely, cant wait to see pics when all is grown, and blooming!

[Tink]

I ordered more hollyhocks, some lady fern and a bunch of mixed oriental poppies today. Woooooooohooooooooo gotta love perennials! Every year they just get better!
I need to go get my potting soil so I can get my seeds planted asap.

I have pics of some of last years garden online in case anyone would like to see them. I hope you enjoy!

http://parenthood.dropshots.com/day....cdate=20360506