Irvin Faria emailed me last hebdomad to divvy up this photo of his wife ’s garden . I had to have it away more . He says,“Pauline is my married woman of 58 yr . She will turn 79 in December and continues to care for the integral garden herself . She is a “ Tasha Tudor ” of the westward . My contribution involves go small tree and shrubs . The garden is heart-to-heart to the world in give ( ~May ) , lessen ( ~late November ) and summertime ( ~July ) . More information and private circuit can be arranged by calling ( 916 ) 944 - 3305 . I took this photo of the upper back garden in May 2011 . It features a kousa dogwood combined with a ‘ Crimson Queen ’ Nipponese maple and beetle branches of ‘ Sazanami ’ Japanese maple . The Gary Price bronze son natural spring “ Bugs & Bulbs ” is surrounded with ensata iris . ”Irvin has promised to send me a videodisk with lots more pic of Pauline ’s garden – I ’ll share them as shortly as I get them ! Stay tune up …
One more bit of business : yesterday there was fortune of public lecture of wanting more menage gardens featured in the GPOD . Here is a summary of my response :
“ For the last two year , most of the posts on the GPOD have come from my travels as an editor here at FG over the retiring 10 years . I ’ve chew the fat long ton of private garden across the country , and have spate of photos from those gardens , but after more than 460 posts ( most with multiple photos ) , that well is starting to run dry .
So get go , gardeners ! Do like Irvin does and send out me your garden photograph ! I need all the help I can get to feed the GPOD beast … . Email me at[email protected]with GPOD as your dependent line . Attach the highest - answer image you have , and send lots ! I ’ll only email back , though , if I plan to use your photo .
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