| Gardening |
| I love roses, I'm not sure why exactly. I am especially fond of very double deep red ones with strong scents. Mostly I've dabbled in hybrid tea roses but I think that the old classical roses are very nice, because they are usually very very double, but they don't often come in dark red. White is also very nice but yellow, orange and pink aren't so attractive. It may signify that I'm looking for love, which is true. I also like herbs and old trees, even the less attractive ones. Herbs have small flowers they don't tend to detract from the roses. I think the grey, green and red or white is quite a lovely combination, moreso if the roses have dark foliage. My favorite trees would have to be oaks. Beech, elm, ash and hickory are nice tall ones that make for a good grove. A place to plant those dark, magical or mysterious shade plants like ferns, aconite and belladonna. I also like willow but they are generally a moist soil tree and I don't have much in my repetoire to accompany them. I am not especially fong of evergreens but I've found that on the west coast there are some excellent examples of VERY large evergreens, even the common ones are much larger than the trees in Pennsylvania The cedar are particularly nice I think. As for herbs I am intrigued by the medicinal and poisonous ones. Grey foliage is common on herbs and quite lively. Some however look like little more than weeds with drab flowers and broad leaves. My favorites would have to be rue, wormwood and thyme. Alot of the others I like tend be shade plants. |