tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post148916027879845761..comments2023-06-03T05:07:51.171-07:00Comments on notes from: JBellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06058881790600891805noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-4247581650536705352007-07-10T16:08:00.000-07:002007-07-10T16:08:00.000-07:00Huh - I had dinner with a Rolphe recently and I do...Huh - I had dinner with a Rolphe recently and I don't recall french or spanish as the origin. I like their house though. I even like the children's playhouse as it was showcased in the Inland Northwest Homes type magazine a while back. Their "garden" seems to show a lot of skin lately. Floosies.mamaJDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347375083141318369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-71612801535886385572007-07-10T13:53:00.000-07:002007-07-10T13:53:00.000-07:00GG: I went through my garden on Saturday and pick...GG: I went through my garden on Saturday and picked out a place and tied survey tape onto an enormous Oregon grape that we have lovingly tended for years; it's history. I'm getting a tri-color beech! And, Julie recommends an Autumn Purple Ash so I gotta have that, too. But I need to check with UI species nursery to see how badly I am screwing up my terra. <BR/><BR/>Julie, I want my trees and shrubs to be native, too. I confess to oversights and sentimental longings and attachments for things that were in my mother's and grandmother's garden. They didn't care from Adam about species! But my next garden will be wholly species. No really. <BR/><BR/>MamaJ. You get it. There are two kinds of people who go to the garden tours. The kind that want to go to The Hag's and to Villa Rolphe (we're assured this name is both French and Spanish!) and the kind that garden and want to see what other gardeners are doing. I went back down to Bancroft to get a few more shots of that incredible garden and heard these women whining to each other, this is such a high maintenance garden. They loved Strahorn because it's over the top and loved the Forest Woods house and grounds because they were easy to manage. It's places like that that sell tickets. But neither of those places are gardens; as I noted, they are well-maintained grounds. But in her defense, the Forest Woods woman planted consistent with her house, which is darling. And I don't scoff or call her place unpleasant; it's just not a garden...<BR/><BR/>You don't have to tend your garden to show it; you own it, you show it. But these folks fool not the real gardeners, who know where they got their plants, who planted them and what the owners are really about. Villa Rolphe was so incredibly pretentious I was a little bit fascinated I was in Kootenai County! <BR/><BR/>So yeah, hire somebody. :) Get your garden on the tour. I promise to be kind.JBellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06058881790600891805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-13100816346829462752007-07-10T13:17:00.000-07:002007-07-10T13:17:00.000-07:00JBelle - It seems odd to me that The Strahorn folk...JBelle - It seems odd to me that The Strahorn folks would be a part of the Garden Club. Alderwood Landscaping did a fantastic job for them. Their gardening staff does an excellent job maintaining the grounds. Isn't this a bit like having Hagadone put his home into the Garden Club? Maybe I misundertand the Garden Club membership requirements. I thought I had to be the one that tended my garden? Does this mean if I hire someone (Are you available?) I can enter into the tour too?mamaJDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347375083141318369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-61641118695206714752007-07-10T09:35:00.000-07:002007-07-10T09:35:00.000-07:00jbelle, I found the tri-colored beech while we wer...jbelle, I found the tri-colored beech while we were building the house and bought it then. The tree I just bought is a variety of White Ash, known as an Autumn Purple Ash because of it's fall color. My tree guy was out yesterday to prune and inspect my trees and he thought it was a beautiful ash. That beech tree, however, he doesn't want to touch. He thinks it's a most beautiful tree the way it is.<BR/><BR/>I wanted all my large shade trees to be native trees or hybrids of native trees. All of them are except for the Norway Maple and the Chinese Elm.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928140378129395082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-17606915621014885402007-07-09T23:48:00.000-07:002007-07-09T23:48:00.000-07:00I read about the garden tour and always thought I ...I read about the garden tour and always thought I would want to go. My mom went a few years ago and enjoyed the day. I love that you got to be in your old neighborhood and remember the neighbors that lived there. Silver Valley Girl inherited a tri-color beech in the house she moved into last spring and I love it. I had never seen one. I don't know where I would put it, but I'd like to have one. lolChristy Woolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748862572108653566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-19629100961414843192007-07-09T18:29:00.000-07:002007-07-09T18:29:00.000-07:00Tivish, I smacked those snouts. :) It was a great...Tivish, I smacked those snouts. :) It was a great day in Coeur d'Alene yesterday. I am going to go back and take pictures of everybody's house!<BR/><BR/>Julie, It was a GREAT day. What tree did you just buy? I thought it was a tri-color beech? <BR/><BR/>Toad, it's that damned cat. No one wants to be the one to tell you. <BR/><BR/>Wendo: you my friend. I could commit an ax murder and you would jump up shreiking, She had a bad day! She had a bad day! Thank you for being my friend.JBellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06058881790600891805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-72911588464412430662007-07-09T15:09:00.000-07:002007-07-09T15:09:00.000-07:00It seems smallish and sheepish to leave anything b...It seems smallish and sheepish to leave anything but novelish praise for this piece but I'm stunned into gardenish silence and can only peep and squawk in barely audible tones.<BR/><BR/>THIS WAS A GREAT READ! WHO'S YOUR PUBLISHER GOING TO BE, FER CHRISSAKES ALREADY!<BR/><BR/>/out of her chair, loudly applauding<BR/>Bravo! Bravo!<BR/><BR/><BR/>---Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-4280318353398450562007-07-09T10:04:00.000-07:002007-07-09T10:04:00.000-07:00I wonder why our garden isn't on the Spokane Garde...I wonder why our garden isn't on the Spokane Garden Club tour? Must be the weeds, and the fact that we have an attack cat......https://www.blogger.com/profile/06899700977986759414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-18810399484913053242007-07-09T09:54:00.000-07:002007-07-09T09:54:00.000-07:00It sounded like a great day! That tri-colored bee...It sounded like a great day! That tri-colored beech. No wonder you want one. They are the most gorgeous tree. Mine is still quite small at only 5 years old.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928140378129395082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13939465.post-603547460175077882007-07-09T09:07:00.000-07:002007-07-09T09:07:00.000-07:00Bonjour! You took me on quite a tour this a.m. By...Bonjour! You took me on quite a tour this a.m. By Waddell's and Holmes' homes...literally on the other side of the tracks down Mullan Avenue. Then, a block east of Raymond's and a block south of Elder's/Sanderson's and a couple blocks north of Shaver's. Didn't our beloved Mrs. Driessen live in the first house west of the corner of 9th and Wallace...next to a beauty salon? I think often of her and the profound influence she was on those of us fortunate enough to be in the southwest lower corner of Central School. And thanks for smacking the snouts of the parvenus on Strahorn! Had a nice visit with Leslie Ann at Tim's retirement get-together...talk about walking through time! Keep that love flowing through your pen (keyboard?), dear friend.monsieurtvshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14850263504992557313noreply@blogger.com