I have been plant hunting
I know of an old garden... it has been abandoned since about 1940 and was tended by a lady who did know what she did. she was fond of primulas especially and propagated and made lots of varieties of them.
The large property now lies abandoned, overgrown and lonley, nobody claims it. There are at least two different kinds of rhododendron growing enormously, under the oaks. One seems to be the ordinary pale purple one but another has leaves I have never seen. There are NO babyplants there to take...
It wouldn't be wrong at all to be the one who got the mission to remake her garden, weed out invaders and tended the original plants,cut down the right trees to let sun in again, rebuild beds and paths... it has it all: large oaks, willows at the bank of the stream, a high mountainside in shade for rodhodenrons, bambu, azaleas and a sunny opening where I would let roses grow...there is only one problem: the deer... One would have to start with a new and very highfence around it all...
27, juli, 2004
