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Talking about all the gardening

Michelle,

>Everyone is talking about all the gardening that they have done already
>and our snow just melted off my flower beds!  The sun finally popped out
>today after two weeks of clouds.
>I'm so impatient to get started, but the ground is still frozen here is
>Wisconsin!

Me Too. 
I don't have snow or frozen ground, just a soupy mud-grass field that 
I am impatiently waiting to dry out a bit. Have to till, till, till. Then I
get 
to go to Heirloom to brouse and buy roses. ( 2 hours from me.)  
I've been dreaming and plopping in a little of this and that. Have
some generous gardening friends and have received 4 rhodes, a 
chain tree, 2 old apple trees, 3 roses, lots of bulbs, an Empress tree, 
couple of shrubs and perrenials. May wean them out or move them
as to make room for more roses. 
The space a plan for my garden is about 60x 80 feet. I plan to put in 
large islands of old and English roses like they have at Heirloom. 
I can't deside if I want a wire wall on the west side to cover in 
Ramblers or a large pergola that ends with a view of the Columbia 
River. The wire wall is easier, would cause less shade, and would 
serve as the west wall of my garden .The pergola would cast more 
shade and I would have to lay it across the middle of the garden 
and would tend to hold and drip water (rain country) as a walk
through it to feed my sheep that are housed just beyond the garden. 
I will edge the garden in roses and path the garden with small rock
and sand. I'll have a grassy spot at the entrance, as you walk out 
of the back door, with a small water fall. I plan to add a serveral
sitting benches that look south east to the River and the sheep 
paddock where the lambs will play in the spring.
I will be busy this spring with tilling, planting and lambing. But I 
have more time on my hands as the new home is finished and 
the children are in public school after 12 years of home-school.
I feel like a free woman. 
Tell me about your garden.
Sincerely,
Carleen
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