RE: Re: A lovely garden

I know what you mean about not wanting to leave home
for work... been there!

It is a shame that they couldn't save the botanic
garden. Did they have some kind of volunteer group?
Are they going to have somekind of plant sale in the
hopes of preserving some species?

I enlarged many flower beds in the last few years.
Then life/work got in the way... and now I am thinking
about converting some back to lawn. But of course, I
don't have time to do that either. It really is a mess
out there.

Donna



--- Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:

> Yah, it's always hard in the spring to leave and go
> to work. Come to that,
> it isn't easy the rest of the year either. :-)
> One thing about living in the desert is you can have
> a lot of property but
> not a lot of maintenance. I have a big garden(s)
> because I irrigate, but if
> I didn't, we could knock down the weeds once a year
> in spring and that would
> be it. When I see articles about gardeners with
> good-sized lots and they
> have ponds, and tree-lined walks, and so forth...I
> always wonder how many
> people it takes for maintenance on something like
> that. I'm maxed out with
> what I've got, which is probably less than a fourth
> of our available land -
> can't imagine how I'd manage where things just grow,
> and grow, and grow. 
> On those lines I was deeply disappointed to learn
> that a local botanic
> garden, Mourning Cloak Ranch, is closed. The owners
> can no longer handle the
> upkeep and apparently the property itself is
> entangled in some way that they
> cannot sell it yet (I did ask for the price! But no
> luck.) Sad. 
> 
> Cyndi 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
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> Of TeichFlora@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:14 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] Re: A lovely garden
> 
> Wow, Cyndi....I'd die for property that large. 
> Great job.  Man,  I could 
> defintely enjoy morning walk abouts there!  Thanks
> for  sharing.
> Noreen
> zone 9
> Texas Gulf Coast
>  
> In a message dated 5/16/2006 7:35:48 PM Central
> Standard Time,  
> gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:
> 
> And I  took some pix. There's a
> couple of the veg garden in there too.  
>
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gardencatalogs/album?.dir=/1df6scd&.src=ph&.to
> k=phm193EBB2C1tJf9
> 
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