Here we go! These are pictures of my Aunt Dallas' gardens in Wyoming Co, WV. She lives snugged up against the mountain, as you will see! She lives in the house where my grandparents raised their 10 children -- my father was the oldest. While I was there, I asked my aunts and uncles about how they gardened the space when they were kids. My grandmother always had a beautiful flower garden around the house and then they planted veggies up the mountain-side and in a big plot on the top of the hill. All the kids helped out tending the veggie gardens. They also raised pigs. And had horses. Now, Dallas mostly has flowers but had a small plot this year. ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Seems I must resize the rest.... so will share them soon, hopefully tomorrow!
Oh my goodness, I am having such a time with these pics. I can't remember how to resize. If I upload them to my garden, do they automatically get resized?
I am envious for sure. My garden and yard never look so nice and neat and beautiful. Your Aunt Dallas is a wonderful gardener. dooley
What an adoreable garden. It has a "feel" to it that I can perceive inen in the foto. I like these pics very much. That is such a nice "still-life" you took with the bench and boots. Very nice. As for the re-sizing: I use two programs for that--ACDSee and Microsoft Digital Image. I resize them first then upload them to Photobucket. I do not know if Frank has his program set to automatically resize your images. Anyway. I am looking foreward to when you have the time to post more.
What a lovely garden your aunt has and I can't wait to see more photographs of it. You can resize your piccies in Photobucket - just press edit above your shot and resize from there. Love the snaps of the boots under the bench. :-D
The first photo makes me want to wander off into the distance. What's up there? Aren't you done resizing yet?
I guess you thought I had given up on showing you my Aunt's garden at our family place in West Virginia, didn't you? Whew. I think I have gotten the resizing thing under control. So here are some more pics! First off -- the house sits on a flat spot that hugs up against the side of the mountain in the back, and looks down the hill in the front! Very precarious! Droopy, the path sort of wanders along the ridge but if you climb up a bit, you get to the next flat spot where they used to have the veggies. They would have several plots, depending mostly on where the flatter spots were. Back then, I imagine it was pretty rugged, and my aunts confirm that. The soil is quite rocky too. All of the stones that you see in my aunt's garden were pulled out of the hill. In the background of some of the pics, you can see the rock wall. See the rock wall -- upper left corner? ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Around the deck and one of the out buildings. ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) sunflowers that the birds planted ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Between two of the out buildings. ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) You can kind of see all the different ways they try to make levels places and allow things to grow up the hill. out building decor! ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Here are the critters who live here. Myrtle ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) "Tater" (He is shaped like one, too.) ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Then there was the peony-digging-adventure.... Seriously, I had to hang onto the fence to keep from rolling down the hill. I had some help from two young cousins, Logan (tie-die tee shirt) and Charlie (interesting haircut). ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) One handed digging! ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Interesting place, garden-wise! I have a few pics of other WV places. I'll put them in a separate post.
It was indeed an interesting group of fotos. Seeing the slopes that one must garden on I just wonder if the cattle and horses all have two short legs on one side. It is plain to see that your family have put a lot of effort into getting those plots into shape. Some places look quaint and rustic, while others look professiuonally landscaped. What a place to try and remove a peony from! You'd better watch out. That cat and dog sure do look like they've got the good life. Nice post. Looking forward to more.
Oh, I found one more that I forgot to post. Aunt Dallas' back garden. ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden )
Thanks for sharing those with us daisybeans...I enjoyed them very much. I'm glad you posted that last one. It's my favorite
Netty, that's my favorite one too. I love the rocks. Sjoerd, ha ha! I'm laughing thinking about short legged horses and pigs! It always strikes me as quite rugged when I'm there. Not easy land to garden, that's for sure. When I went looking for a shovel to dig the peony, I had to laugh because all of the shovels had had their pointed ends worn off from pounding out rocks! Instead of a point, they all had a "u!" The peony that I was digging was somehow a volunteer. I think my aunt Dallas left it there because it was so hard to get to! She and my uncle Leo are older now and have some health issues so they don't tend as much area as they used to and they have someone come in and do the hard work now. Dallas gave me a cutting of a sedum (Autumn Joy, I'm pretty sure) but she said my grandmother used to call it House Leak Plant, because it would grow in places that were damp... Ever heard of that?
I really like your photos and the stories. Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I didn't have to move that peony. I'd be at the bottom of the hill in no time flat, without the plant.
