My Compass Garden

What a beautiful house and garden you have Gt...

i did so enjoy watching u develope this bed and the lovely gate...i suppose its all white up there in Alaska again...it has cooled down here and there have been frosts but not here yet...look forward to the develpment of the compass garden next spring..:-)

I love your 'compass' garden Gt. it looked so pretty with the nasturtians (spelling?) in and all the other summer plants, also I liked the snow effect too, Lol. We have had two heavy frosts here now ! It's going to be a long winter here but you know about that don't you? :0))

i love this area to GT, watched it come from nothing to what it is now and love the gate to, its all so homely ;o))

i love everything about it! the compass garden, the gate and that wooden house oh yes and the amazing forest. that moon shot looks really good ~ great atmosphere
i am so fascinated to hear from someone so far away. thank you for a great blog ~ please keep sending them

I really love your would love to live in something like it :)

It was very interesting to see how your compass garden has developed and survived the elements, GT. That last photograph would make a lovely jigsaw puzzle and one I would enjoy doing :)

i totally agree Gee ~ ought to be a wooden jigsaw!!

Thank you all for reading, and the lovely comments. I had to look deep in my photos to show someone the compass when it started and decided it was best to just make a quick blog for anyone new that couldn't make out the design under this years planting.....lol. Gives me a better idea how far I've really come with it too. Cabins this size come in cabin kits here, so they should be obtainable if you were to want one. :-) For now, maybe I will have to make some puzzles. :-)

Love your Compass garden it is nice to see the different stages as it has developed. The last picture is so pretty like a fairy tale house and garden, would suit me down to the ground;0)

Thank you Pp. :-) I hope to get all the size and color but with a little more shape next year. I love them, but too much nasturtium for my taste. :-) They just took off! :-)

Just wonderful!

Thank you Nana. I'm proud of this little garden of mine. :-) I've got an offer for another house and I really am not sure, because of the garden of course.

I just loved this blog Gt!!!
It is so amazing the way you have prepared it trough the seasons, I called all family to read the blog and enjoy the pictures.
My daughter agree with Pansypotter.... she was looking to Hänsel und Gretel... :D

just like the gingerbread house ~ but no witch inside ~ this is a happy fairy story!?

Thank you Aleyna. It has been a pleasure helping it grow. It has come a long way. I've a coming opportunity to move to another house that is hard to take because this has come so far. I do love my little place. I wouldn't mind more fairytale garden. I have reminded any neighbor that called it the Hansel and Gretel house that I would not steal their children. :-) My friends daughter loves to visit and come through the gate again and again.

that is lovely.

Fabulous both the garden and the house. Lots of good work gone into it I'm sure.

Thank you Grannysue. Its been a pleasure building along as I go. It is a rental so I will be leaving it all someday, but I say garden improvements are always worth doing.

sounds like a very wise philosophy to me. have you got any snow pictures for us greenthumb? ~ please?

I'm collecting them Stickitoffee. We're already a couple inches deep today and just went subzero last night. Thats your -17C. I'm sparing with the snow shots at least until it gets colder over there, but sounds like that is happening already! Its was perfect today but my camera had a dead battery. I'll get some going. :-) They are mixed along in my my garden shots, they should have a few winters there.

thanks greenthumb ~ always interesting to know what you are doing and what it is like somewhere else

I just love your house!!!!! I want one like that. And your photos are brilliant. Thanks so much.

Thank you Benjiboy. Its the standard 16x20 cabin kit with a little personality. :-) You should be able to find one available, they are easy to get up here.

I am sorry to have not seen this earlier. It is exactly what I love best. Ideas that progress to reality! What a wonderful, informative and just plain fun blog. I love your house. It looks so cozy, and fits right in with your landscape. Glad I discovered it and you.

Thank you, Wells. I kept calling the compass garden by name but left no place for one to find out what I was talking about. This spring will be the end of it though. I'm moving two of the beds into one. I am gald you like my little forest home. Right now I can't wait for spring to burst.

My first visit to your blogs too, Greenthumb! I am really interested to hear what you can grow and when. I have a distant cousin in Edmonton and its pretty cold there too!

THank you Rachelsmum. Hope you liked the visit. I am writing one up about a flash flood I experienced in the desert. But as for this one......lol. I just pulled apart the compass yesterday to make some new beds. I got a wheelbarrow that wont fit between them. Of course my perennial experience increased much since then. I've collected Lychnis, Ligularia, Trollius, Tanacetum, and many Clematis that wil survive my deep freeze. Edmonton can be very similar, just a shorter winter part of the year. I love trying things, and have many that I wouldn't name as I wouldn't call them novice for wintering care. Just in case someone looks one day and thinks I've stated something will live that really shouldn't. :-)