This is what I see several times each day. This is Teddy language for: Time to patrol the lower gardens. She will sit like this patiently for about 30 seconds and then I get 15 second intervals of yipping. Teddy has many different sounding barks to tell me want she wants. I speak "Teddy" fluently. I can decipher the slightest inflection in all of her barks.
Here we go. 
The routine varies little. Along the path to the lower garden are many garden rooms. She has to stop at the entry to each one to look in and see if anything is amiss. 
It surprises me each year when the phlox blooms because I've forgotten where I've planted it and then bam! Lots of spring color.
This is one of my next projects. Time to clean up the gazebo room. This room is right next to the huge Weeping Beech which is about 40 feet high. I will show you this area after I clean it. This has always been a favorite garden spot. We take our coffee down here in the morning and read the papers. This room sits right below the upper pond and all you can hear are birds chirping and the falls and stream running.
The Oakleaf Hydrangeas are opening.
Even though some of them still hold last years blooms.
Ferns are popping up everywhere.
My daughter's house sits right at the bottom of the path.
I sure planted a lot of Hellebores.
They have put on quite a display this year.
I have them planted all along the side of the path.
The fish terrorist.
She loves to drink from the ponds.
The Irises will soon be showing their beautiful purple flowers.
Southern Bluebells have spread throughout the woods.
Some Hostas opening just behind more Phlox.
Grape Hyacinths
The inspection is complete...return to the main port!
There she goes back to the upper garden.
There is a lot of huffing and puffing at this point. She still has her winter coat.
Time to rest knowing the area is safe.
A good job has been done.
Time for a nap and in a couple hours we will do it all over again.***There is still time to enter the giveaway for the fairy lights. The winner will be drawn tomorrow and another giveaway posted!
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I'm loving my daily garden visits!
What a nice place the gazebo room seemes to be. I don´t have such a place here, so I usually sit on my kitchen stairs. But the sun makes it impossible to read any newspapers there :-) :-)
One can never have to many helleborus :-) or ferns!
Teddy looks like a small lion where she guards the garden :-)
Have a great day now!
Christer.
I missed nice photos from your blog. Good day
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love seeing all the plants just starting to wake up...summer is going to be a good one....
hugs to teddy....
5 days till Teddy here :- )
kary
xxx
Here is the post on the ravioli
http://brokenteepee.blogspot.com/2010/04/hubbys-birthday-dinner.html
They were tasty
What a big job guarding everything so well, and she takes it so seriously too! What a dog!
I am amazed and delighted how you have covered nearly everything in plants, and in the proper tiers too. .ground covers, small plants, shrubs & vines, understory and canopy trees. Beautiful!
My Angel and I have also developed our own language and I can understand all the nuances in her voice. She doesn't bark in the house, just 'talks' to me. But, don't let a stranger try to come into the yard! Wow! For a Chihuahua, she can really raise a ruckus!
Your Garden looks beautiful!
counting the days...i really don't know how i made it this far...45 days of misery....
i am writing this and looking at Teddy laying there..and now i am smiling...look at that sweet girl...
i wish I could pet her...
but i am sending her a hug..oh and one more thing..guess who just came in the mail...EARL ! it is pretty bad...but valerie said he loves it...so we have it.
kary
xxx
animal love...the BEST !
I have a weeping willow that I planted in my back yard several years ago. Now it towers over my house and in the summer makes a nice private shaded place to sit. (or for the dogs to lay under Really! LOL!) A couple of years ago I started to hang chimes all over it and now most are gone because of the horrible storm we had last spring! But I noticed the remaining ones are there because the tree had grown around the hooks, it's kinda like the tree is "holding" onto them. It has also grown around a bird feeder! It's almost like that tree has a personality of it's own! I keep thinking of those apple trees in the Wizard of Oz, cool but scary!...
Oh, and if your daughter ever decides to move out, give ME a call! LOL!
Love all your blooms.