Absolutely Gorgeous! Thank You!

No wonder that gardening has been so deathly to me, I should start small with just a few plants, weed a little each day, and just enjoy it!

This article is an inspiration to me. I have felt so busy with life lately, I've not taken the time to tend to a garden. I am moving my family to Las Vegas today and plan to see what I can get to grow there. thanks for the great tips and inspiring message.

Makes sense often I become ovewhelmed with carring for new types of plants. This Year I'le stick to the basics plant items I know and experiment with just a few at a time.

Here in California, were we get 17 in of rain and not the 6 in SLC gets, we are planting more endemic plants that have adapted to California's climate. The California poppy is a great example of a plant that is rich in beauty but miserly on water. It is interesting that a organization with such a impact on Utah plants gardens like Utah was land with abundant rainfall.

Some people just have to complain.
Check the weather, SLC gets quite a bit more than 6" of rain and IMHO it is water well spent to have a nicely planned and cared for garden.

Much more water is wasted on the various golf courses.

I love walking around temple square's beautiful gardens (plaza, church headquarters, temple square). It's very calming, peaceful, and inspiring..Thank you and your volunteer's efforts for creating such a beautiful place that brings great joy to so many.
I often see tourists on the grounds taking pictures of the gardens.

I have spent years attempting to made my garden into a close replica of Temple Square .. it is wonderful and pretty and I am so proud of it that I will no longer let people in unless I find them worthy.

Green Fingers, you are so clever...

Re: "Interesting"----Ca is in a drought because of the lack of precipitation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, we now have a drought and will be on water rationing in another month. Here in T.O. our water bill depicted a 10% increase last year, another this year and one in the coming future, totaling a 30% increase in our water bills here in the Conejo Valley. Seventeen inches of water in Ca. --only in your dreams.

An article about gardening and pretty flowers and someone still complains. Why even look at these articles if you are so miserable? Complain about something worth complaint, like how Congress isn't doing their job. Of course, that would, again, be an entirely different article. :) There's one on msnbc about their pork spending. That's worth getting upset about.

Temple sq. has always been such a joy to visit. Quiet, pretty. Calming.
Proper water management has turn that desert into a rose.
Here in CA the PC police have stopped such clear headed thinking. They ignore the growth of the State and the need for more reserves. Then, when we have a normal year of rain fall, they want to complain that there is not enough. There is enough. Plenty. Just not enough storage.

It's just beautifull being in Temple Square and enjoy taking pictures with my 2 girls and the flowers, we live in San Antonio Tx. so we just enjoy it. I have pictures in my home and when someone asks me where is it, I proudly say in Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

I'm from Germany and have admired this wonderful work and the gardens around the temple in SL in September 2002 the last time. It's like paradise for me! I spent hours for hours to be there at temple square to sit on a park bench and to enjoy the flowers the ghost of this place to the full. May be I took a picture of each bloom or flowerbed and am remembering it very well in my dreams. The compositions of the colors and plants are inspired and a wonderful decoration for "our" beloved buildings. They are smelling sweet till today in my mind and I love it to wallow in pleasure. Can you imagine, you are able to see SL and the temple square once or twice in your live - which meaning this can have for you and your soul?
I'm so sorry not to have an garden by my own - but I have my pictures from SL which I want to share with you. If possible and if you want I can send a few of them by e-mail.
Thanks to the inspired hard working gardeners from Germany!!!
Best wishes Sr. Hanne Reber