Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

• RT @Earthywoman @ionxchange Gardening good for the soul and good for the bones. http://bit.ly/33TgU #
• Just saw a post on the Chicago Gardeners Spring Fling. Really wish I could go to Chicago this weekend. Craving deep dish: http://is.gd/HNHL #
• Just gave neighbors some painter’s palette and some ajuga after they helped put-to-use our excess mulch. #
• agenda cont’d: terms of service and faqs. #
• tonight’s agenda: checkout, shipping, UI, outreach. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

• A fellow Atlanta gardener/baker’s Urban Garden (she’s even composting!): http://www.slightlystellar.com/?p=332 #
• Was mulching this evening when @micahwedemeyer came home and said he found a discarded 7 ft ajuga. We picked it up and have a new shrub! #
• Just added the rest of the gardens we visited on the Mother’s Day Garden Tour. Check out pics of all seven at: http://blog.doleaf.com/ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

• Rain’s picked up in Atlanta. Had to take a break from mulching. Still have half a truckload of pine nuggets in our driveway. #
• The second garden pics in the Mother’s Day Garden Tour are up: :http://blog.doleaf.com/2009/05/12/garden-2-walter-ray-scott-kaye/ #
• Posting garden-by-garden pics of the Mother’s Day Garden Tour on the DoLeaf Blog: http://tinyurl.com/pdc5ur #
• Totally enamored with ‘Sea Bunny’ Hosta. #

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Garden 7: Keith and Ann Cowan

The last stop on our Mother’s Day Garden Tour, this  beautiful, very new, garden in Buckhead was created and maintained by Habersham Gardens.

Garden 6: David and Geri Laufer

This Piedmont Heights home has a backyard garden with a literary theme. Plant labels are accompanied by quotations from Shakespeare plays. The mostly full sun garden also has beautiful poppies and an amazing rose bush.

Garden 5: Kay Kramer and Frank Cohen

A Piedmont Heights garden with serious style, Kay Kramer and Frank Cohen’s garden consists of a purple-themed front garden, a woodland’s garden and several outdoor rooms.

Garden 4: Baxter and Veronique Jones

This Anley Park garden is located behind a three-story home near Peachtree Street. The yard is divided into three spaces: patios and a sunken garden for formal entertaining, a playground for the kids, and a fenced woodland space for the dogs.

Garden 3: Marcia Weber

Landscaper Marcia Weber’s Atlanta garden in the Ansley Park combines elements of  an English garden with a more casual woodlands garden. English boxwoods, hostas and container plants create visual themes throughout the space.

Garden 2: Walter Ray & Scott Kaye

The second stop on the Garden Tour was one of two Midtown gardens. Walter Ray and Scott Kaye’s garden was unexpected in the neighborhood, which is known more for Progressive Era homes than modernist dwellings.  The front gate, bordered by horsetail reeds, led to a front walk suspended above a coy pond. The backyard complemented the modernist home with ornamental grasses,  iris and oakleaf hydrangeas. A grove of 3-foot autumn ferns grew under their backyard starecase, next to one of two cisterns.

Garden 1: Ryan Gainey’s Garden

Our first garden stop on the Mother’s Day Garden for Connoisseur’s Tour was garden designer Ryan Gainey’s home garden in Decatur. His garden comprises three backyards (he bought the houses on either side) and contains two vintage greenhouses, a guest cabin, and a treehouse.

Gainey’s private garden is what I refer to as a “decadent garden.” Most plants are huge and tightly packed together, giving the space the sense of being on the verge of totally overgrown. Already narrow paths seem narrower, and a clear view of the sky difficult to find. For my Iowan mom (who loves flat, open spaces, this decadent garden made her want to grab the lawnmower and pruning shears.  By the end of our thirty-minute tour, she was walking on the street to avoid getting assaulted by four-foot irises and decending roses. After visiting Gainey’s garden, Mom kept brushing her hair, sensing she’d picked up stray leaves.