RE: leaving your garden behind

Marge,
	There, you have hit upon it exactly!  However, I do see signs that this
attitude is turning around.  Here in the city there is a great move toward
gentrification of old neighborhoods with much good restorative work to bring
Victorian era - 1920's homes back to former glory.  Especially Craftsman
Style homes which are very popular.  The landscaping is being restored to
fit the time period also.  We also have an abundance of the so called
"California Bungalow" which is a very comfortable home with a nice big front
porch.  (I would give anything for a nice big front porch!)
	There are many gardens in this area that are well photographed and have
been in the garden magazines.  I know a few of these that when they changed
hands.......it was enough to make you cry.......watching the deterioration
of what once was a most glorious garden.  I finally reached a point where I
had to choose different streets to drive on because it was too painful to
watch the weeds grow chest high and the rose arbors fall down and the
blackberries encroaching on everything.
Well, the original gardeners have gone on to make new glorious gardens which
are very different but much admired.  One gardener was recently featured on
our local TV gardening show  - she actually has built a grass Bocci (sp?)
ball court.  Now that's something you don't see everyday!  :)

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Marge Talt
Sent:	Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:00 PM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: Re:leaving your garden behind

People, it seems, feel the
need to place their mark on new property by wiping the slate clean.
This is not an age when people build on the old; it seems to be one
in which only the new has any value...pity.

Onward and Upward is the only direction:-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Bernie & Cathy Higgins <cyberduo@txucom.net>
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Re:leaving your garden behind
> Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:44 AM
>
> This thread really hit home for me.   We had to relocate and I
wanted to
> put in the contract on our house that the new owners dead head
every
> day.  Hah!  I had all of my perennials just how I want them and
there
> were 5 large areas full of beauty.
>
> We went by the old house a couple of weeks ago and we were shocked
that
> the new owners had dug up absolutely everything in the front yard.
I
> assume the back is the same but we couldn't see all of it.  Looks
like
> new construction with tiny little boring plants around it.  It had
> looked like a perfectly groomed botanical garden and they destroyed
it!
>   They even got rid of a beautiful blue spruce.  Enough to make me
cry.
>  The only upside is that it has stopped me from missing my old
home.
>  The old saying "you can never go back" must be true.
>
> The upside is that now I'm starting all over again.   Even though
being
> older makes it all more difficult, we are in an entirely different
> climate zone and growning situation so though I will miss some of
my
> favorites there are many new things to try I couldn't even dream of

> before.   Got to look forward.
>
> Gardening now in zone 8 had been in 6
>
> Cathy Higgins
> Montgomery TX

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