POE Gardens!

Remember this great song from the sixties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN12TIJbnmM

Wow, Stephanie, what a great view! And great photos from your garden past. Our new place has zilch for garden and Shirley is already missing her English garden at our previous home (which is just now springing up--no pun intended!). Sounds like you really love your new place!

Stephaine, tha tis an nice view from your new house, you are taking before and after pictures as you work on it aren't you...probably could summi tthem over here in Home and Garden channel TV (HGTV).

Yes, I miss my gardening, though my  pineapple mint tea is coming up I see...my aunt back in Nebraska use to have an walkway between her house and garage that was an herbal garden, tiny, but useful. The mint tea is refreshing in the summer time with ice and "light" lemon to it. I'm sitting here this morning in another web site having talked about sourdough bread starter, I managed to get myself into making Focaccia Bread starter and dough instructions...I'm into herbal plants right now. The bread was one you could add fresh herbals on top, after baking and for some while it was baking..esp. the roasted and "strand" thin cut sweet red peppers...that took me into Ruth's English Garden Song. Nice pictures there. Nothign like fresh sweet Basil on your bread top...or sage..or chpooed up Oregano and basil...or Jalepeno pepper and cheese. I have several neighbors Bob that belong to local garden clubs in the area...they have tiered thier front yards for plant growth. So I guess if mine isn't up to snuf, I can go walking daily and see thier's maybe. Wehave lost numerous evergreen trees due to lack of moisture these last few years in the area I might add..maybe this year things can work out for everyone. It would be nice if my neighbor across the street could do as she would like..and build and rock wall around her corner house. The orignal owner was taking horticulture classes and it use to be so beautiful. Everything is now 30 years old and the new neighbor is wanting to tear it all out an start over again. It could use it. But she works full time also, and is not young..they are working people, I think he might be retired though. I think the English spend more time on dealign with animals in their yards also , Isee an lot of pictures, and people over here seem more for th epanoramic view of nature then the animal life. We could stand to learn an bit from you over there. I just gave my sister in-law an topairy book for making animals out of with ivy and evergreens.

Thank you Rob, Shirley, Cathy & Urmi (and for the comments on the photo Ruth, Pat, Peter and Barbara). I don't think I will tire of looking out at the view. It is an industrial view but has lots of interest - with the binoculars you can see Dudley Castle lit up at night on the horizon. We can see about 5 churches.

All the rooms at the back on the house look out at the view Cathy - this is taken from the room that will be my two eldest boys bedroom. Funnily enough I was born on the other side of the hill so grew up looking at the opposite view of Halesowen, Clent and the Lickeys.

It must be difficult for Shirley to have given up her lovely English garden Rob. I had all my garden at my old house landscaped so I am starting again at the new one - it is a bigger garden but it is all overgrown & just looks like a field at the moment!