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» Gay_Klok - Lynda Welcome back!! You are so busy. Hardly had time to absorb all you have seen and done. I always feel that the most enjoyable part of travelling is when you come home and really feel all the wonders you have seen!And now a new garden to create. How exciting. A little warning - Never go back to see your old garden, remember it as it was. I hope you had a marvellous time and will tell us of the new plants you have seen at Chelsea -- posted by Gay_Klok » CarolWallace - Leaving behind Gay is absolutely right. I made that mistake just once - my very first garden in Iowa was a front yard garden. When I went back to defend my dissertation I drove by that old house to see it - and it was gone. The second garden I made was at the house my husband was livingin when we met. Not only was it a fun garden, but it served as a pet cemetery. I was devastated to drive by and find that it is now a swimming pool.You have to look forward. But it will be nice if you can take a few of those treasured plants with you. I just read an article by a garden designer who sounded much like you - she had so many ideas that she didn't know where to start. So she didn't - but I'm hoping you will, and will take us all along for the journey. -- posted by CarolWallace » LyndaH - What? go cold turkey???? I'm not sure I can resist the temptation to come past for a sneaky peek in the future!! But at least, because I have been away for so long, I am ready to move on. And don't worry Carol, I will certainly be sharing all the new garden with suite101.com. I could never live in a house and not dig up the section! It would be so weird not to garden.... I can't even imagine it. I love the fact that when you move to a new property, you can really let rip with the design aspect of gardening. Whatever I want, I will probably get! I don't believe in gardening self-deprivation one iota!-- posted by LyndaH » CarolWallace - Going back My husband and I talk about that a lot. We have a large property and we have gardened a lot of it. And we are aware of the fact that for many people this would be a liability - I think if we ever decided to sell this place the gardens might scare about 90% of prospective buyers away - or I can imagine watching them mentally decide to do away with most of them. (Of course we're making that a bit difficult with permanent installations like brick pavers and gazebos and arbors and ponds. . .)I know that our house stood on the market for nine years before we bought it - the house along, huge as it is, was too much of a prospect for most people - and now we've added gardens. But the house waited last time for a buyer that would love it the way it deserved to beloved. I am hoping that we, if we ever had to sell, could hold out until we found that perfect buyer - the one who saw all the gardens and lit up in joy. -- posted by CarolWallace » LyndaH - I'm not worried... too much... I'm not going to stress out about how my precious garden is looked after... well... I hope to be too busy starting a new one. And I am going to create some amazing containers in the meantime. I have 200 tulips that need planting and lots of cuttings from my favourite plants to propagate too. And I have hundreds of photos to look at. So it won't be so bad, will it????-- posted by LyndaH
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