As has Fern in her question re a Mary garden.

Nice try, Tony.
I am getting caught up now and have a bit of time to spend on the forums.
G.

I just figured that everyone else is busy deadheading or fighting insects. I've recently taken on office temp work which tends to give me too much time sitting down with nothing to do but update my posts on GW. If I get any of my regular work I too may become negligent, so I have to be forgiving. But on the other hand maybe some of the deadheaders could use hedge clippers and speed it up a bit.
:)
Sharon

Deadheads Sharon? Are we talking resurrection now and not restoration?

You couldn't resist the pun could you. LOL :) Considering that there only seems to be four people responding in this forum resurrection may be called for. But generally deadheading as a horticultural practice is a technique used to restore the blooming capabilities of plants, not end dormancy.

Sharon

If I don't have anything to contribute, I don't post. But I do pop in daily to check this site. Are you bored Tony? Trying to stir things up?

I contribute when I can, but I'm new to historic gardens myself, so I don't always feel I have much to offer.
I've also started a couple of threads in an attempt to stir up some activity.
I had hoped that we wouldn't lose the non-historic posters to other forums.
Jo

Bored, yes Jill and a tad disappointed too. I don't expect a forum to be constantly hopping with new and bright ideas and topics for discussion but this particular forum has a potential that has hardly been tapped. I feel the same way about the writers forum so perhaps it is me, perhaps I should take up gardening as a hobby instead.

I visited the Writers Forum a few months ago and was very disappointed, so I don't think that it is just you Tony. Both Gertrude Jekyll and Frederick Law Olmsted were pushed towards careers in gardening by difficulties with there eyesight (you mentioned this problem in another thread). You would be in very good company if you took up gardening.

Sharon

Thankyou for your kindness sharon but I feel a bit of a phoney since I mislead with my cynicism. I am a second generation gardener and have been a designer/pretender for 22 years. I am also an intellectual which most of the time I have to apologise for.

Tony, I think I'm confusing you with someone who in an earlier thread said that they didn't have a garden, or didn't have one to restore. I have also been known to take comments too literally. So you are already in good historical company and what you actually meant is that you might go off and join the "deadheaders" if the forum doesn't start fulfilling its potential.

Sharon

Hello All,
Sometimes I get confused about when and where a post shows up. I posted to thread that is not very active now (Where are the History Folks) and then I tried to cut and paste that to this thread....it is just a brief introduction to me. Now I don't see it. In any case, if it never shows up here, mine is the last post in the aforementioned thread and my is web name "Idabean" ( my dumb beagle's nickname) or just "marie"

TONY! I wasn't intentionally negelecting any one--I've just been at the BEACH--computerless. And now I'm researching how to get week-old (or more) dried egg off my house. It's not looking good...and I know some young men who are on my s#i! list. sigh. I''l try and keep up!

melanie

I'm just going to let it go. I shall look in and contribute on anyone else's concerns but I am all out of rallying cries. My head is dead.