A recent post on Gardenweb.com threw me for a momentary loop, but it also turned my thoughts and outrageous fantasies in a new direction. A simple post from someone talking about his Old Garden Roses being in the peak of bloom seemed innocuous until I thought, "Wait? What?" and checked the date on the post, and found the date to be correctly listed as the end of November. Further investigation, of course, revealed that the writer was based in Australia, where evidently early summer has just arrived. Easy sometimes to forget that the world has gotten a lot smaller with the Internet, isn't it?
From: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens /research/hort.research/zones.html |
But dream with me a minute, won't you? Imagine that suddenly you've won the lottery and have riches beyond your wildest dreams. Planning to buy that yacht for around the world sailing? Thinking about that trip to Egypt and the Orient to see the Seven Wonders? Well, it occurred to me that a great choice to spend my unearned gains would be a second home, Down Under. I suddenly have visions of two seasons of 'Madame Hardy' every year. Two glorious summers of waves of Old Garden Roses with no need to wait around to see the browning buds and the onset of August blackspot. Two periods of delicious fragrance from 'Madame Issac Pierre', 'Variegata de Bologna' and 'Salet'. Two summers a year in the garden.
'Ballerina' at Denver Botanical Gardens 06/24/10 |
While I'm dreaming, do you think it's too much to ask that the cabin would be in a magic deer-free zone of the mountains as well?
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