The Legacy continues....

Change is good when it's needed.
When I moved it took 1 day to move the furniture and a week to move the plants, which I did on my own.
I hope you find somewhere suitable where you'll be happy, and you never know about that greenhouse.
Stay in touch with GOY after you move won't you ?

How exciting a new garden will be and good luck in your search.

Lovely photos.
Well-written blog.
As you say, you'll be at an advantage in having learnt by successes and failures in your current garden.
You have time to plan, and you can take some of your favourite plants to your new home.
Good luck with your plans and keep in touch when you can.
Merry Christmas. :o)

~why are you moving Lori?will you be moving far?

Like they say a change is as good as a rest, good luck with a greenhouse.

Keep in touch, won't you, Lori. We will all be wanting to hear how the move goes and wishing you happiness in your next home and garden.

Good luck Lori and very best wishes for the New Year :0)

hi lori, i hope the new people appreciate what a lovely garden they have got.
but there is nothing like a brand new project to get ones juices flowing. hope your new 'blank canvas' meets all your expectations. plenty of pics before you start !!! have a happy xmas and a succesful new year......steve

Thanks Everyone! I won't be leaving the province and with any luck I'll be in a zone 6 or better...and I plan to spend a busy winter season working on goY, so I'm not leaving, friends, just growing into a new space..sorta...kinda...
I was about to start work on the "garden" page and reread the blog from last March...and realized that I'd grown up in the intervening months...change is good...and I'm looking forward not back. Thanks for all the well wishes my friends...you know that I send the same good vibes your way!

Lori, you are very wise to look forward not back. Remember with pleasure your old garden but don't waste energy grieving for it. As Steve says, you will have a blank canvas to play with to your hearts content. How exciting!! With the greenhouse, you could start with one like mine....unheated........it's great as a large cold frame for starting plants and in the summer I have grown wonderful cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon and cantalope in there. It's just built out of 2x6 and old rescued windows. The roof is corrugated fiberglass which is semi-opaque. Its not pretty but it works!! LOL.
Growing roses can be an adventure but Hybrid teas have to be the hardest to look after. Try some David Austins. I've been very happy with mine.

Thanks Gilli... I'm thinking the corrugated fibreglas sounds like a plan! I know you are out in God's country where everything grows well...I thought that the Austin's weren't as hardy as some of the other older roses? would they be ok with temps in the negatories? like minus 20 for a few weeks at a time? lol...brrrr... maybe I should emigrate to Arizona!!

All the very best with your move...good that your staying on goy

I've got 5 David Austins, Lori. I'm in zone 4b or 5a, I'm not sure which. We get temps down in the -20'sC. I just put protection on them over the winter and so far they have seemed just fine. My 'Heritage' is about 4 or 5 feet tall in the summer same with 'Gertrude Jekyll'. My 'William Shakespere' was new this last spring so this is its first winter but 'Tamora' and 'Abraham Darby' also seem to come through just fine. I don't prune in the fall but leave the canes unless they are going to whip around too much with the wind. I pile up either pine needles, fallen leaves or hay around the roots or a combination of all three, depending what I have. Either just pile it or I make little "fences" with chicken wire. In the spring just start pulling the cover off little by little over a couple of weeks and throw it on the compost pile. Once they are uncovered I prune back any canes that have been killed by the weather and give them a good spray with a fungicide and away they go!!
Some Austins are hardier than others but on the whole they aren't as fragile as they look.

Thanks Bonkersbon/Jane.... best gardening site on the web? leave? ...never! Enjoying the chronicles of Cyril too much!
I found a book at the library, Gilli, that has a listing of roses hardy in south-west Quebec (Montreal area) and some of the var's listed are resistant to blackspot... Do the Austins have a problem with fungus or do you use the fungicide as a precaution? One of the roses listed in the book, "Chaucer", (of the series same as "Wm.Shakespeare" I would guess) is an old French cup shaped, shrub rose in a light "rose pink" colour...the scent is of myrhh. I like the old roses because they have more foliage...they don't look like bare sticks with huge flowers pasted on the end of the cane!! Will also look for Shakespeare....what colour is it, red? Another that I found in the same book is "R. Carefree Wonder" I'm thinking very seriously about that one!!

Lori, your present garden is wonderful and I bet that your next garden will be even better :)

Thanks Mike!

I only just got to this blog Lori and absolutely agree with you about moving forward with what you have learned and enjoying the chance to apply that to a new garden. I have enjoyed being able to keep records of my gardens on here and looking back at them. Still won't know for a month or two if we are moving again this year but I'm ready for ir if we do!
Any news on a new location yet?

I know you have experience here, Gillian...Things aren't as advanced as I had hoped the search would be by this point. With roughly six months to go...I'm still biting my nails! Have seen a few listings that were tempting but it's still too early...buying is conditional on selling... time is flowing by and I'm trying to remain calm and stay on task, as slow progress is better than no progress (panic!) lol....

Well good luck with your search! As the weather warms up there will be more activity on the market I'm sure.

Thanks Gillian...: - )

i have looked at your garden lori and i can understand you being upset leaving, i love all your work and im sure you are now in your new place since writing this and are on your way to something new for your new place, good luck with all things new :o))

Thank you Sanbaz... I suppose this is a good spot for an update...Here we are in May...and no closer to moving than when I said I had "roughly six months to go"..lol. I was holding off with my planting etc. but my husband has determined that we should aim for mid-summer...So I'm going ahead...the garden may be a selling point. But I have plants that need to go in the ground and no more time to pot up and ponder! The moving van is going to be full of my garden too!

lol lori,, its a bad time for selling and buying houses at the moment everywhere, but will happen in the end, and while you are still there then you want to still enjoy your garden and it is still your home all said and done, good luck with it all lori :o))

Thanks Sanbaz...very kind of you. It will all unfold, just have to be patient and careful. Maybe soon I will have pics to post of the next garden!! wonderful thought...