OUR WORLD - Torn Between Two Gardens

A glimpse into the front yard and eastern side of my Mt.Lofy 

garden. At an elevation of 700m, it has a totally different

micro-climate to my farm garden at 122m and although both 

have acid soil, plants that struggle in one will thrive in the other.

Bluebells colonise and carpet grassy areas

camellias grow into trees and crabapples flourish 

apples grow well in both places

looking back at the house from one of the water tanks

the white tree is Amelanchier canadensis, of which there are

a number around the house

from the same spot, the view to the eastern garden sloping

down the mountainside, is obscured by one of the oaks 

bursting into leaf

all is pink near the front door tucked between two weeping pink 

cherry trees at right and crabapple at left

half way dow the eastern garden, the red crabapple shows

to advantage against the fresh green of maples

my white flowering cherry that always blooms for my birthday

and, to finish but by no means to show you all 3 acres,

one of the many rhododendrons. This one is President Roosevelt.

I no longer have the strength or stamina to keep up one garden

let alone two but how can I close between the wealth of roses 

on the farm and rhododendrons, azaleas, lilacs in profusion and

all those lovely trees?

What do I do? I feel so Aboriginal about land, one does not own it

but is just a keeper for such a little while . . .

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