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tessa
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 05/04/2008 : 18:39:22
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hi jacqueline! i just wanted to personally welcome you to garden delights. i don't post much in the roses forum, so i'm sorry i didn't notice and greet you earlier.
i'm looking forward to seeing your garden.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever!
perth, wa
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 05:18:40
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I know I said 'HI' earlier but I'll say it again... HI! 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 05:32:47
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Hi Jacqueline! I have been away and had not noticed a new member. Welcome!
I notice you are in Ipswich. I am at Bellbowrie, across the river. If ever I can assist as a "local" let me know.
All the best!
Daniel
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Edited by - GardenDan on 06/04/2008 05:35:26 |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 10:14:04
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Hi Jacqueline I welcomed you a few days ago on one of the Forums too.
But  again..
Good to see another member interested in roses too.
Good Things Come To Those That Wait ... I am Tired Of Waiting
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Jacqueline
assistant gardener
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 29/04/2008 : 13:45:27
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Thankyou all, a lovely welcome.
We have just moved from an inner suburb of Brisbane all the way out to Ipswich. We have moved because it doesn't matter where my husband is because he works mostly from home and at the Ipswich courts. We also have a farm at Warwick so it makes the drive up there at weekends much easier and shorter. The children are and were at the respective Ipswich Grammar schools, so they are thrilled with the now 5 minute trip to school.
Hmm...the garden!!!!
I brought what I could from the old house....was madly moving things into pots before we put the house up for sale...a real job. Became so bored with that after a while that I really didn't bring all that much. Just 1 of each daylily and cannas and brugmansias and basically anything that was already in pots.
This new house has enourmous shade house where the previous owners bred or cultivated orchids and broms etc.....Of course that all went with them. So I have an enourmous area to fill there......at least they left the fish pond!!!! no fish though, they took them.
The garden here was at some stage obviously beautiful.....I am thinking before the drought, although we have about 100 thousand litres in tank water, 3 large tanks. Ugly but useful. There were lots of roses here....some had obviously died because there seems to be a lot of rootstock growing up into paw paw trees..will have to wait till next spring to see what they are.
We are on a corner block so no front and back garden....side gardens will have to be my thing. I have started with the front side garden about 1 week after we moved in and am so far very pleased with my progress. I have planted some annuals just to get some colour before the perennials take hold. Although I really love the annuals as well.
So basically at the moment I am concentrating on the roses that are here, daylilies, salvias, etc. etc. I do and always have loved a cottage garden.
So thankyou all again for the lovely welcome, I will post some pictures of my progress soon.
Oh and I am a stay at home mum now, I retired from intensive care nursing about 18 months ago, and I haven't missed it one bit....not one eensie meensie itty bit!!!!
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
836 Posts |
Posted - 29/04/2008 : 18:38:48
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Well, thank you for a lovely intro Jacqueline. Sounds like you have a good labour of love ahead of you.
Daniel
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 29/04/2008 : 18:58:01
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Hooooray - another rosey person on the forum. Goodie!! Sounds like fun to have a new garden to build. I also worked in a large hospital for 12 years until 1987 and can well understand that you do not miss it one teensy weensy bit. I also worked in a major university after that and again, having 'retired' 5 years ago, I can say I don't miss university life also - not one teensy weensy bit. The public have no idea how downgraded both our hospitals and universities have become and unless you are in a senior position in these places and responsible for budgets, no one could understand how bad it has become. Hopefully it will improve if that is possible but it is a bit like trying to get the water of the Murray Darling back to what it was 20 years ago - verrrrrrrrrry expensive to return it to the way it was.
I'd love to hear more about your garden Jacqueline. I bought a new (to me) house 5 years ago on 5 and a bit acres and have spent almost all my time since then getting the garden going. I am a great rose lover with over 300 mostly old fashioned roses that I have planted as well as a couple of hundred of callistemons and other trees and things. My hands tell the story. Isn't that the way!
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
836 Posts |
Posted - 29/04/2008 : 19:11:03
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I spent most of today in hospitals...on the other side (a patient). Although the staff that looked after me were absolutely wonderful and I cannot thank them or praise them enough, I am appalled at the inadequate facilities in which they work and the shortages of staff. Having been assessed by RNs and then the doctor, bloods taken and so on, I was to have a chest x-ray. The wardsman arrived to take me to radiology but since I had to be monitored (accompanied by a nurse) and there was ONLY ONE poor RN on duty and present at that time (mind you this is RBH emergency dept)the wardsman had to go to the next job. Fortunately mine was not urgent, but you should have seen the doctor when she found out. There were patients filling the "bays" as well as lining the corridors. I mentioned to the wardsman that it was busy and he said it was not as busy as yesterday and that it was only early. I take my hat off to the nursing and medical staff at RBH, but there is certainly a need for questions to be asked and answered at higher levels...all the way to the Premier!
So to Jacqueline and Pamela...thank you for all your wonderful contribution to other people's lives...I hope you are truly rewarded in your gardening!
Daniel
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2008 : 11:58:48
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Sounds like a big job ahead of you Jacqueline. I'm looking forward to following your progress with the garden. Even though I love having an established (well nearly  ) garden, I miss starting a new one as I like designing them.
Hope your OK Daniel.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2008 : 13:09:20
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I am glad I don't have to start again, three brand new houses in fifteen years is two too many, especially when they come with rather large blocks of land for suburbia that is..
Good luck with your new garden Jacqueline 
Good Things Come To Those That Wait ... I am Tired Of Waiting
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
836 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2008 : 18:22:03
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Thanks Gail; and yes...all well-ish.
Daniel
Happy Gardening |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2008 : 18:31:09
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Glad you are OK Dan
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2008 : 20:08:18
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Good to hear that Daniel..
Good Things Come To Those That Wait ... I am Tired Of Waiting
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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