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Gardening since 1984
  • Name: Maggie Freydoz
  • Location: Belmont, CA
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Maggie's Garden Belmont, CA

I really don't have one big garden but a series of small areas each with its own personality. I never look at the big picture in the yard just the small plot here there. I have a lot of perennials and don’t spray anything. We have Mason bees, praying mantis, lady... » more
  • Last updated: March 13, 2011
  • Garden type: natural

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    • lfin replied about 2 years ago
    		Hi Monel,  Curious to know how the garden's doing this time of spring.  Are you in full summer yet (though I've heard it's been cooler and wetter than other tracking years).  And - the big question - do you still have the squirrel manager of the landscape?
    Monel replied about 2 years ago
    		@lfin: Hello!  We are all over the place with our temps.  Hot, cold, warm, rain, etc.  The poor garden is going side ways!  The roses are blooming but with the rain the rust will start!  I will take some pictures and post them soon.  We got a puppy, so life has taken a bit of a turn!  Well worth the effort (I must say that 50 times a day) and we do love him.  Thanks for asking about the garden, one good thing the new pup is not a digger so the garden is safe!  Come on summer!  I have three beds to plant!
    PublicGardens replied over 2 years ago
    		Hi Maggie, we have dedicated a flower to you on the International Women's Day Public Garden. Click here to go to the garden.
    lfin replied over 2 years ago
    		Garden rooms -- that's a good way to do it - if you don't get to one during a session, you just 'close the door' and walk a different way -- it works for me in the house!  Actually, Gala Wolenska, of Lotusland, came up with a garden of rooms, one more different than the next.  Zany, but really a treat to see. I visited on an overcast day in January and put it up as one of my garden visits: Lisaland to Lotusland.
    irxprt replied about 3 years ago
    		Maggie, what a lovely garden and thank you for sharing. You are so lucky to have the preying mantis ... in Colorado it is too cold for them. I tried a mantid case, which was fun to see them being born, but then none returned to add their brood. I just got a Mason bee house, but no Mason bees. I had lots last year.
    Groundskeeper replied about 3 years ago
    		Is that beautiful orange a Japanese maple? I use no chemicals but I have yet to see my first praying mantis in the garden--seventeen years and counting. I like your description of sticking with a plan until the garden wins. My plans are sketchy at best and then they change anyhow--with the weather and my fickle tastes.