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After gardening and fixing up our home of 20 years, we have had to move to a larger home where I can take care of my parents which means a new start on my gardening antics even if the existing garden is 30 years old located among a heavily wooded lot, some of it almost pristine woodlands.
The lot had been previously owned by a family who’s grandparents used it to harvest lumber for their general store in the last century. The house was built by the last owner and the gardens were carefully constructed to keep a natural setting that promotes the serenity of the wildlife among the woodlands and one feels like the world can pass them by as you sit and watch the birds and listen to the wind rustle the leaves in the 80 ft trees towering around you.
It really is quite peaceful here, despite the never ending need to take care of household duties, but my “coffee breaks” are like going to a resort.
My plans are to remove the pachysandra that surrounds the side and back of the house, as I believe these may harbor “little critters” who may like to hide in the basement. I want to create a vegetable garden along the back side of the house where I can also fence in the area from the hungry deer who frequent the territory. We have a salt block on a stump in the back woods that we can admire them and they have found some of my new plantings this season as a delicacy. The Paw Paw saplings and a yellow zucchini were a few victims but have survived.
-- A weed is a plant that is growing where it was not purposefully placed by human hands.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 215 days ago
the area is breathtaking!! How lovely
(sorry about the PawPas etc)
How hard it must have been to say good-bye to your previous haven.. but how easy it must have been to say hello to this!
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Radicalfarmergal
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posted 214 days ago
What a lovely place you have chosen for your new home! The patio looks like a delightful spot for your coffee breaks.
-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi
sharad
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posted 205 days ago
Your new home looks so beautiful and you will make it more with your ideas. Pl send more pictures of the house. Your cane making will flourish in this new place.
Sharad
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Iris43
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posted 203 days ago
What a beautiful setting! That patio would definately be my favorite spot for morning coffee and an afternoon of reading. Although I might not get much reading done, with watching all the goings on in the garden and nearby woods. I know you are going to enjoy your new home. Good luck with the veg. garden. :)
-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'
bestofour
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posted 191 days ago
Lovely.
-- The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet
Eric Shawn Bosloor
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posted 116 days ago
I visited a mate of mine who has a huge garden like this in the article. Indeed, it was very refreshing to be looking at greens and flowers after being on the road looking. Though my mate said that it was not a cheap project, but he said it was worth it, especially after a tiring day.
CameronRobertson
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posted 53 days ago
When I visited our storage facility in Brisbane after being on the road for a while in search of new storage locations, I visited a mate of mine who has a huge garden like this in the article. Indeed, it was very refreshing to be looking at greens and flowers after being on the road looking at cheap storage locations. Though my mate said that it was not a cheap project, but he said it was worth it, especially after a tiring day.
-- Cameron John Robertson