Garden Journal

Garden Notebook

Our Cascading Roses

and

Our Secret Garden

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. 

 ~Abram L. Urban

This past weekend my husband and I spent several hours cleaning the sidewalk flower in front of our house. A previous owner had planted these enchanting roses to cascade over the wall as well as Mexican Sage, Yellow Lantana and two Rosemary bushes.

Last fall I cut back the Rosemary Bushes, they must have liked it, they  bloomed earlier this spring for quite a long time.

We interplanted daffodils with the sage, which is growing quite nicely and surprisingly has a few blooms. Normally it blooms from September to frost.

I just adore these roses. They're petite, but plenteous! I had to cutback some of them from the sidewalk side so that they wouldn't grab anyone passing by. 

I love the pink and red together - to me they are quite striking. 

I took these photos Sunday afternoon, later we discovered that someone or something fell into the deeper rosebush twisting it and causing it to lean forward. We did some repair work and are waiting to see if there's much permanent damage - I think it is pretty resilient, but it may lose a few branches. 

From street level you cannot see the garden in our front yard. 

some of the Japanese Rooftop Iris are blooming as well as some more roses

A new little friend for my garden

This girl needs a new location - she's being covered up!

One of our neighbors who had come by while our house was on a tour
 and noted that she did not know we had flower garden in the front yard.

It is nice to be a house on a hill with a bit of privacy - our own

Secret Garden.
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A Return to Loveliness

Enchanted April

The April issues of Victoria Magazine often featured 

beautiful gardens and inspired gardeners.

I think we who garden endeavor to create our own

Secret Garden. 

Misselthwaite Manor

There's not a more enchanting story 

involving a garden, children, love, broken hearts 

and renewed life than the one created

by Francis Hodgson-Burnett.

Our hearts are given over to Mary in her

sad plight being orphaned and sent to a faraway, 

unknown land. Mary finds a strange household,

a distant host and a mystery which leads

her to a wondrous place that gives her purpose

and hope.

Mary finds friendship in the most

unlikely places and restores not only a beloved, 

neglected garden but also a beloved and neglected child.

This Secret Garden created by Burnett is one that

we dream of creating for ourselves - 

an Eden of flowers, fauna, love and laughter and 

to bring magic in the garden.

The 1997 April issue of Victoria featured some very

beautiful gardens - one where a family created a 

garden playhouse which they named Misselthwaite Manor.

Suzanne Bale's garden showed how she 'would never dream of interfering with a rose's travels'.

Claire Murray demonstrated how she brought her

beautiful garden to life by creating colorful hooked rugs.

The magic of lanterns and twilight gardens

of Missy Stevens and Tommy Simpson inspires

us to bring these lovely lanterns into our gardens

to bring an air of light and mystery

similar to the painting above.

A while back, I shared with you that my husband brought home some limbs from an old Crape Myrtle he was

cleaning up. He thought we could do something with them.

Immediately, I thought of an arbor. 

Last night we put the puzzle together.

Here's a sneak peak. 

Gardeners create their own Edens throughout the year

adding whatever touches their heart.

I hope you're enjoying your April Enchanted garden today.

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