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I don't pine for lost jewelry, sold cars or even sold houses but gardens are living things and so many of us have sentimental attachments with our plants. Gifts from friends, cutting, air layers we wondered if would work, dug up from roadsides, etc. To me they are my babies.
In my house in GA where we lived for 23 years my gardens were extensive. It was featured on HGTV, photographed for Southern Living and on many tours. It made a huge statement and was a living laboratory. I used it to explain client plans and show specific plants. I was bound and determined to take as much as I could cause I knew no one would love and care for it like I did. Actually nobody would even know what was in it even though I had labeled so many things.
18 months before our move I started potting stuff up. My husband kept saying "They's got plants in N.C." but I finally got him to understand. We picked a moving company based on who would accommodate my plants which looked like pots of nothing but dirt lined up and down our driveway.It was March and everything was dormant. "Hey lady, Why you wanna take all this dirt to N.C.?" "There's treasures in that dirt, son".
I know I could never bring myself to go in the backyard. it would be heartbreaking. We left 32w koi in our ponds and I don't even want to know what happened to them.
It's so funny (not ha ha funny) how people buy a property for the yards but fail to realize how much work it takes to keep those yards looking so good and I knew this would happen.
I used to have clients who would say "I want some nice beds with flowers but very low maintenance cause I'm really not into gardening. My answer would be "You would do best with all grass. That is the easiest maintenance there is." Now if I was selling plant material, soil and mulch and borders I would have come back with a completely different answer. The times I was associated with nurseries I, of course, was encouraged to include as many expensive plants as possible to the point of crowding. No thank you. That's not how I roll.
I have been back to visit the house my husband built us - friends bought it when we moved. It is their home now. Good Memories of when it was ours. We are going to visit our daughter next month and will drive by our 2nd house - couldn't see it on google map because of the trees. - Have no desire to see house #3.
This thread inspired me to look at the home I sold when I retired. I thought I would be sad. I'm not.
My movers would not move plants. I wish I had shopped around a little more.
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