Cloud's End Guestbook



Thanks for visiting Cloud's End and we hope you enjoyed yourself.  Feel free to visit as often as you like.  I disabled the automated guestbook feature because I was getting hundreds of pages of spam.  If you would like to leave a comment for the guestbook, just send me an E-mail . 

Below are prior messages posted to the Guestbook.
Name:      ALICE MITCHELL, LOUISIANA (5/30/2006)
Email:    amitch1242@aol.com
Comments: very pretty. I love the roses.
Name:      Pat B. in Lufkin, Texas  (4/13/2006)
Email:    parb@consolidated.net
Comments: I loved all the photos. You have certainly done a wonderful job both in the garden and in your photography. I would love to see more shots of your beds and how you have them planted. I have a small space and wish to have more, but it ends up looking like a jumbled up mess rather than a cottage garden.
Thank you for being you! Have a great garden year!
pat
Name:     Allanas  (3/2/2006)
Email:    casava@yopi.com
Comments: Just browsing through ur site. I really like it. keep up the good work.
Name:     Stacey, near Baton Rouge  (2/26/2006)
Email:    
Comments: Beautiful gardens- enjoyed strolling through the garden!
Name:     Greg  (2/22/2006)
Email:    scott@yahoo.com
Comments: Well done!
My homepage | Please visit
Name:     Summer  (2/10/2006)
Email:    Zebta@mails.com
Comments: Just browsing through ur site. I really like it. keep up the good work. Chuck, from England.
Name:     William  (1/19/2006)
Email:    williamwjy@pobox.com
Comments: Good job. amazing site. all the best.
Name :     Terry Gribbin  (9/1/2005)
Email:    rgib@earthlink.net
Comments: Boy oh boy, you have the most magnificent garden that I have ever seen. The photos are terrific. I also really liked the one of the arch in the misty morning. Worthy of hanging its print on the wall.
Name:     Derek McCrea USA (5/29/2005)
Email:    http://www.derekmccrea.50megs.com/photo.html
Comments: I love your site keep up the good work, I will come back later to look at more. Being a watercolor artist who paints flowers I am inspired by your site.
Name:     Nila -- USA  (5/24/2005)
Email:    http://community.webtv.net/nilaswebpage111/NILASWEBPAGE111/
Comments: Hi, I was just surfing the web, and that's how I found your site. I read all the other comments in your guestbook, and everyone is praising your site. I can't find a link to your site, could you possible send it to me so I can visit your site for myself? thank you
Name:     Faith from cebu  (4/13/2005)
Email:    savibocafe@yahoo.com
Comments: I love your cat Kew! i wish i cud do somthing on the next like that for my dog..but im not that hi-tech yet. . dont we love our pets like they know us so well..your garden is lovely too..i'm looking around for inputs, as im trying to design my little pocket garden.  than you for letting us view your garden.
Name:     Donna-Pensacola Fla  (3/2/2005)
Email:    nittbonnie@wmconnect.com
Comments: I really enjoyed looking at your Southern CottageGarden. It gave me some ideas and much humor.( Your kitty cat)Thank you for sharing!
Just beautiful. I look forward to your next view.
Sincerely, Donna
Name:     James Henderson, Melrose Place Subdiv, Baton Rouge  (1/10/2005)
Email:    james_at_gsrcorp.com http://www.gsrcorp.com/tes/rare_plants.html
Comments: Greetings Neighbor,

Ran across your website this evening on Google. Don't believe I've driven by your lawn in its full glory before. I'll have to take a new route to my home @ 995 N. Leighton as spring & summer approaches. Hopefully you will have an open "yard" in 2005. Website pics look great!!

Slowly converting my own lawn into fruiting shrubs, wildflowers, shrubs, vines, while eliminating mondo grass, monkey grass, wax leaf ligustrum, Nandina, and St. Augustine grass.
Name:     DAISY MISSOURI  (1/8/2005)
Email:    
Comments: LOVE YOUR WEBSITE! THE GARDENS ARE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I KEEP RETURNING TO LOOK FOR NEW PICS AND UPDATES! THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK YOU DO TO HELP OTHER GARDENERS! ABSOLUTELY LOVE ALL THE PICS! PLEASE KEEP UPDATING! THANKS!
Name:     Rob, Allentown, Pennsylvania  (11/19/2004)
Email:    www.robsplants.com
Comments: Hi,
It looks like it's right around the two-year anniversary of the last entry you list in the guest book :-) I found your page via gardenerscorner.com, and enjoyed the tour. Keep updating!
Rob
Name:     Lisa Wemple, Three Forks, MT  (10/27/2004)
Email:    MTGatorgirl73@aol.com
Comments: Hey Guys!

It was so nice to meet the two of you on my last vist. Being from Louisiana originally, it was soothing to my soul to view your garden online anytime I want to! Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your garden in person on my next visit!
Name:     Michelle bailey (9/23/2004)
Email:    baileyma@state.gov
Comments: Thank you so much, these are great, they bring me Joy
Name:     Mario Vaden  (6/13/2004)
Email:    http://www.mdvaden.com
Comments: Best regards from Oregon.

(from a brief view, I thought I'd add - have you thought of sending some of your photos and a few paragraphs to the American Garden Museum, and online gallery? It's free, no hassles. The link is listed on the lower part of my home page - highlighted.

They don't bug me with promotions. It is what they say it is.

Mario Vaden
M. D. Vaden Trees & Landscapes
Beaverton, Oregon
Name:     Beth Perry from texas  (3/25/2004)
Email:    sheauxgirl@aol.com
Comments: Hey uncle van! Hey Chuck! how's it goin'. just thought I'd visit you'll's beautiful site again. I really like the "easy going" rose. hope we see each other soon
Name:     It's Me, It's Me, It's Me! Simone from Maringouin  (1/28/2004)
Email:    kjunbel2003@yahoo.com
Comments: I finally made it to the site, lookin good, now I can keep updated with more beautiful pic's!

Kew, of course is my favorite to look at!

C-YA! Simone
Name:     Beth again (9/24/2003)
Email:    
Comments: hey again, i i just wanted to add that we have a passion flower in our garden now. It came over from teh neighbors. It's just like your and they are really cool looking!!! your neice, beth
Name:     Beth Perry from Texas  (9/24/2003)
Email:    SheauxGirl@aol.com
Comments: Hey uncle Van! I love your website! It is so amazing! My favorite is the pink Hydrangea! We tried to grow them once, but it died after a year (It was blue!) My mom just redid her bedroom in blue hydrangeas, it looks nice. well, anyways, I hope we can come visit soon, keep up the gardening!!! love your favorite neice, Beth
Name:     Ted White... Asheville, NC  (9/23/2003)
Email:    None at the moment
Comments: Chuck & Vann, What a great site I happened upon!! I am lucky enough to hav enjoyed the gardens in person so I know that it is as beautiful as the photo's. Congrats on the new business venture.. you guy's are something else. Come see some of the NC gardens soon. TED
Name:     tiffanie (9/8/2003)
Email:    tbrumfld@lsu.edu
Comments: van,

so very, very lovely. i could really "tour" on the cable modem....

tiffanie
Name:     charlotte may gann soledad ca usa  (8/7/2003)
Email:    rickhatchell20002@yahoo.com
Comments: hi just wanted to see what your site was about
Name:     Karen in Lake Charles  (7/19/2003)
Email:    
Comments: Van & Chuck!
Congratulations on your business opening! Your e-mail notice of the news didn't open for me. We just need to make a trip to BR before the summer is over! Hope all is well!
Name:     Kent Fillible  (7/17/2003)
Email:    Hermes4134@aol.com
Comments: Chuckster! Vanly!

The website is gorgeous! Good that you promoted your shop--very clever and inviting, but not too much. Van, you're really quite a good photographer (despite the "graininess" in the wedding photo...). As well, those pics of Kew are precious--what a kat!

Thanks for inviting me again to see your handiwork!

Kent
Name:     Patti Little from Baton Rouge  (7/3/2003)
Email:    thehabitat@cox.net
Comments: Hello Val and Chuck, this is Patti who talked to you both at Terri's party Saturday night, with the moaning frog story. I think your garden is stunning! I must see it for myself. I must steal some ideas, I already have!. Kew reminds me of my cat Fellini who is at the Rainbow Bridge waiting for me someday. Hope to see you both soon. I am amazed at the beauty of your garden.
Name:     Britney  (5/26/2003)
Email:    
Comments: I love your website. And i am your best friend of your favorite niece. Or thats what Beth told me. U take great photos(love the website):)
Name:     Sue Tyree Valley Center, Ca.  (5/12/2003)
Email:    mlysuebob@msn.com
Comments: Just beautiful! Wish I had known about it last May when we were there in our R.V.
We saw some very great gardens and homes but missed yours.
Might I suggest that you put up notices in R.V.Park Offices in your area.
Name:     Teena / KS  (5/4/2003)
Email:    http://precious60.proboards13.com/index.cgi
Comments: Breathtaking pictures, so enjoyed your site!
Thanks for sharing it! :)
Name:     Your Favorite neice, Beth from League City Texas  (4/21/2003)
Email:    sheauxgirl@aol.com
Comments: Love the website, uncle Van!!!! See ya next family get-together!
Name:     Debbie Grimes Knoxville, TN  (4/14/2003)
Email:    JJMGrimes@comcast.net
Comments: Beautiful! I really enjoyed your gardens! And thank you for taking the time to know all of the names, and for letting us know how well they do! That is invaluable information for a relatively new gardener like myself! I inherited a beautiful set of gardens that I have now maintained for 5 years! It's time for a few additions that reflect MY interests!

You have helped me a lot! Thanks, again!

Debbie
Name:     Tricia Small Tokyo, Japan  (4/5/2003)
Email:    bookbabe116@aol.com
Comments: I have enjoyed my tour of your garden so that I have bookmarked your site which was sent to me by my sister, Belle. We have beautiful flowers in Tokyo. In fact, we are now in the peak of the cherry blossom time or Sakura Matsuri. Your site will be a tranquil place for me to visit since I live 26 stories above the city (an awesome view) and have no garden of my own. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with everyone.
Name:     Belle Gascon, Baton Rouge, La (4/5/2003)
Email:    belleobr226@aol.com
Comments: Me, again! I forgot to tell you that I have forwarded your web site info to my sister, Tricia Small. She is living in Japan and LOVES your garden. I'm sure you will hear from her as well!
Name:     Belle Gascon  (4/5/2003)
Email:    belleobr226@aol.com
Comments: Hi, Chuck & Van: Just had to tell you that I spent ALL of last night looking at each and every photograph. What a beautiful and serene place to lose yourself! I don't have a green thumb, but your garden sure makes me wish that I do! Thanks for sharing yourselves with us all! P.S. I especially love the photo of Mrs. Barbara in the garden. What a tribute to your mom, Chuck! See you soon! Belle
Name:     Brenda--Baton Rouge  (3/21/2003)
Email:    
Comments: Just read the article A Little Bit of England in Country Roads -- enjoyed your website & looking forward to visiting your garden. Thanks for sharing.
Name:     Linda Mandeville, Louisiana (3/6/2003)
Email:    lintoadflax@juno.com
Comments: I am delighted to discover your web site. I have wonderful memories of visiting Cloud's End with the Hilltop Arboretum group in 2001. Your gardens and your garden cat, Kew, remind me very much of the delightful stories of Beverly Nichols. I imagine you have read his books, but I mention him to you just in case you have somehow missed them. He was a British writer, gardener, and lover of felines, and he wrote "Down the Garden Path", "Merry Hall" and a number of other unforgettable tales of his gardening adventures. I hope to revisit your garden soon. Thank you for sharing it .
Name:     Carol Wandersee, Baton Rouge  (3/5/2003)
Email:    cwander@lsu.edu
Comments: Loved the article in Country Roads -- especially since it led me to your fabulous website.
Name:     Shirley Squires from Newfoundland, Canada (2/26/2003)
Email:    SSquires@northatlantic.nf.ca
Comments: I am an avid gardener living in Newfoundland, Canada. I was surfing through gardening related pages (of course, what else would I surf for) and came upon your page. Your garden is absolutely beautiful...and very inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your awesome garden with us. It is like a breath of fresh air for me during these short, cold days of winter.
Name:     Pauline Lomax from Rugby, England  (2/15/2003)
Email:    paulinelomax@msn.com
Comments: Thank you for the lovely photgraphs that you had on your web site. I live in Rugby England and it is very cold today, so it was lovely to look through your flowers from last year! There is no way that we can compete with the lovely flowers that you are able to grow in your climate, but I still like to look at them! (2/15/03)
Name:     Rik McCarthy, Birmingham AL  (2/15/2003)
Email:    planterrik@hotmail.com
Comments: I've enjoyed spending the morning exploring your gardens. You are an excellent floral photographer and have constructed a uplifting experience for fellow gardeners and flower lovers.
Name:     Ann Kleinpeter Grosse Tete, LA  (1/6/2003)
Email:    kleinpeter1@yahoo.com
Comments: Hey guys! Beautiful as usual!!! I would love to hire you on to do our yard. I know you work hard even though it is your passion. God Bless!
Name:     Pearl Lee Carter, Baton Rouge, LA (1/5/2003)
Email:    pcarter_1964@yahoo.com
Comments: Very Impressive!
Name:     kaitlyn guerin, grosse tete LA  (1/1/2003)
Email:    kaitlyn.guerin@sjamail.net
Comments: hey uncle chuck and van!! the website is great! i'm going to have to stop by sometime and check them out in person!! keep up the good work!
Name:     Jean Wall from Baton Rouge, LA  (12/31/2002)
Email:    jwall@Oyd01.corrections.state.la.us
Comments: Astonishingly beautiful! Y'all, it's hard to believe how lush and varied your backyard garden has become. And the pictures from last year's snow are magic. Keep on growing! Good wishes for the new year.
Name:     Beth & Jason Barnes  (12/29/2002)
Email:    wowbeth@aol.com
Comments: Van, Chuck, & Kew,

Your garden is just a heavenly as it was 3 years ago when I last visited it. Amazing! What a wonderful talent you three have.

Hope all is well!
Name:     Betty Glaser (12/28/2002)
Email:    nikki5035@earthlink.net
Comments: I just dropped by to cast a vote your way in both the Flower Power & Top Gardening Site competitions and I am green with envy. Your site is truly awesome and informational.
Hugs and happy gardening,
Betty G 

138) Hey Guys, I just needed to get a little look at south louisiana and thought of your garden.. Everything looks beautiful from the pictures.  It seems like such a long time since I have been roaming and SNEEZING in your yard....<grin>......Thanks for having the web page for me to peak into from time to time.  Hope you both are doing great .  Miss you much.....
John Hollingshead <ACajunTouch@aol.com >
San Diego, CA - Thursday November 14, 2002 at 01:59:21 (CST)

137)  Hi.  I just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I visited your website, and enjoyed my visit very much.
 Alan <GardenGuy@gardenerscorner.com >
Chandler, AZ - Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 11:18:40 (CST)
136)  What a beautiful garden you have!  I found your site on a couple of topsite garden lists I also belong to.  You have wonderful pictures and a nice smooth layout.  I'm so glad I stopped for a visit.  Please visit me at Sunny Acres by clicking on the link below.  Happy Halloween!
 Marguerite Kreger   <mkpoodle@webtv.net >
Green Lake, WI - Monday, October 28, 2002 at 08:42:21 (CST)
135)  Hello, I just wanted to drop you a line and compliment you on your beautiful pictures and  relaxing site.  I was looking for a flower that I have growing in my yard (I've forgotten the name and have bagged the seeds for next year and need a label!) and found your lovely and inspiring site!  I'm also from the south (AL.).   PS. pretty kitty!
Nancy & Roger Atkins <twox2atkins@charter.net >
Alabama - Tuesday, August 20, 2002 at 13:01:22 (PDT)
134)  I just happened upon your website and it is beautiful!   I live in Watson on an 1 1/2 acres.  My grandfather used it as a cow pasture and now I am trying to turn it in to a garden paradise.  But it is very slow going.  Unfortunately, my dreams multiply faster than the cash flow!  Do you give tours in the summer?  I would love to see it!  And I love the name Kew for your cat.  How fitting!
Ashlie Dehner <Dehnera@aol.com >
Watson, Louisiana  - Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 08:24:23 (PDT)
133)  What a beautiful place you have.  I envy you to have such a wide assortment of flowers and trees.  I also envy your talent as a photographer.  Congratulations for a job well done.
Louise Prince-Milne <pmlse@Videotron.ca >
Quebec, Canada - Friday, May 31, 2002 at 12:49:28 (PDT)
132)  Van, you have a lovely website.  Wonderful pictures  of a super garden(s).  You are very talented.  Thanks for sharing.
Arlene  Krassner <lak37@optonline.net >
Long Island, New York - Friday, May 31, 2002 at 05:29:08 (PDT)
131)  Your garden is awe-inspiring.  I have been fortunate enough to have found it and have used some of your ideas and advice in my own gardening and garden.  Hope you are as flattered by this as I am awed by your great website.
Jimmy Fondren <jfondrenrst@knology.net >
Central Alabama - Sunday, April 21, 2002  at 21:24:21 (PDT)
130)  Van -- beautiful website!  Great photography, design and layout
Chris
Ontario, Canada - Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:23:34 (PDT)
129)  Just spent 15 minutes in your (online) garden, Van...  It is so inviting (plus I like your web design!).  If I had a garden like yours, I wonder if I would ever want to go anywhere...  Kew (your well-named mascot cat) is very lucky to live there!
Anne-Marie
Albany, NY USA - Friday, March 15, 2002 at 07:58:55 (PDT) 
128)  Wow!  I really love it.  It's very sophisticated.  The photography is great, Van.  The flowers are gorgeous, and the cedar privacy fence was an excellent choice.  Now you have a closer, cloistered feel to the garden.  You can
control the views and define areas more precisely now, as well.  Good job to you both!
Kent< Hermes4134@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 09:51:08 (PDT)
127)  Uncle Chuck and Van, Cloud's End is a beautiful garden .  It is the image of what you would find at the "end" of the clouds.  What a dream place to be!  The garden is somewhere I would find myself wandering through in my thoughts.  It is wonderful!  You have captured the beauty of God's creations in your pictures!
Ann, Josh, & Caleb
Grosse Tete, LA USA - Tueseday, February 12, 2002 at 07:59:49 (PDT)
126)  WHY WHY WHY WHY was I born in New Jersey???  MY Homestead Verbena just died...yours is like a lush purple carpet!!!  Enough green-eyed envy...seriously,  I absolutely LOVE your arched paths and your garden and your roses and those CLEMATIS!!!! Lovely job!
Maria< italiana@optonline.net >
New Jersey, USA - Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:23:50 (PDT)
125)  flowers were really nice
Kristy Dodge< kthedodger12@alloymail.com >
Sioux Falls , SD USA - Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:59:37 (PDT)
124)  Hi,  I live in Baton Rouge as well.  I'm guessing that this is your private garden, not a public one.
Take care,
Libby Leigh< skyblueskies@hotmail.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:53:09 (PDT)
123)  hey uncle chuck and van... the pics look beautiful! i will have to come by one day and see it in person!
mallory < malpal13@hotmail.com >
grosse tete, la USA - Saturday, December 01, 2001 at 19:48:06 (PDT)
122)  Beautiful garden, photos and website.  I am going to add you to my page of links at: www.rosegathering.com/links.html    I envy your flowering pear and dogwood - I can't grow those here in Southern California.  Thank you for inviting me to visit your website.  I'll be back soon.
 Daphne <daphne@rosegathering.com >
Southern CA USA - Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 22:32:32 (PDT)
121)  Hi, Van and Chuck!
It's been a while since I've seen your web page, so I came back for more!  I am so lucky that I have gotten to visit your beautiful garden a few times.  Each time has been like visiting another country.  Who'd think a garden so amazing can be right here in Baton Rouge?  Thanks for doing all the hard work and letting those of us, like me, enjoy the bounty.
Love,
Brenda < BDDuchmann@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Thursday, November 08, 2001 at 15:53:36 (PDT)
120)  thank you for a lovely sit.   i have enjoyed myself looking through all your pages and will pass it on to family and friends.
Glenys A. Griffin <cannary@xtra.co.nz >
Gore New Zealand - Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 01:24:38 (PDT)
119)  chuck: i love this site.  it is so beautiful.  my roomate and i just love the pictures.  we want all of your flowers!!!  thank you for sending me this email address.  see you monday.  have fun this weekend.  bye.
amy hardy <ahardy6@lsu.edu >
baton rouge, la USA - Friday, October 12, 2001 at 19:55:40 (PDT)
118)  I was at Jim Stone Company this morning getting prices on rocks, gravel, etc. and while talking with salesman he told me about your website.  It is wonderful!
Janet DeLage <janetd@tpbp.com > & <brdutchgirl@home.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Friday, October 12, 2001 at 11:24:18 (PDT)
117)  Your sense of Cottage gardening is awe inspiring, you two.   I'll look forward to seeing it in the magazine.  Our garden was once designated "Organized Chaos", and that takes work, as does yours.happy gardening!!!  R.Rose PS  We've been in your part of the country and the people are fabulous...
Elaine(aka. Ramblin' Rose) <esenft@telus.net >
North Vancouver, B.C. Canada - Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 07:59:32 (PDT)
116)  Wow Van!  When can you come to my house and help me plan MY garden?!
Diane < Serlydni@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, September 10, 2001 at 04:40:12 (PDT)
115) Wonderful site! Beautiful plants! Great pictures!
Cindy Smith <THEWILDZOO@AOL.COM >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, August 20, 2001 at 18:44:02 (PDT)
114)  Wow!
Susie
Oradea Romania - Saturday, August 04, 2001 at 10:20:30 (PDT)
113)  WOW!!  is right . . . can't believe how much it's changed since my last visit!!  I want to bring James by to see it, he will not believe his eyes!  And my friend...PUBLISHED!!! (www.townfavorites.com) I'm exceedingly proud and can't wait to show it around!!
Love to you both,
Linda Mumford <bigdog5764@aol.com >
Houma, LA USA - Tuesday, July 10, 2001 at 12:28:20 (PDT)
112)  Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
Kathy < kpint58@hotmail.com >
NY USA - Sunday, July 01, 2001 at 19:04:21 (PDT)
111)  I have bookmarked your wonderful and informative site.  Thank you so very much for e-mailing me and giving me the opportunity to visit your great site!  I would love for you to join our new webring. Please stop on in and check it out. :o)
 Annie   <gardencenterwebring@home.com >
NJ USA - Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 17:06:07 (PDT)
110)  Great web site, great gardens, excellent photos and information given.
Congratulations.  It is a pleasure to visit your site.  Thanks for sharing.
Erato < erato@vl.videotron.ca >
Brossard, QC Canada - Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 23:17:00 (PDT)
109) What a great southern garden you have.  I enjoyed my visit of the many beautiful flowers you have.  I invite you to come visit my Vermont web garden when you have time.  Feel free to list your URL in my guestbook as it will let other gardeners discover your beautiful garden.  Take care, Jerry G.
 Jerry Gryniewicz   <jerryg@adelphia.net >
So Burlington, VT USA - Wednesday, May 16, 2001 at 17:43:44 (PDT)
108)  Van, thanks for the blue flower "this is for my sister, Karen".  I'm touched!  It IS a beauty....is it my imagination, or is there a person's face to the upper left of the flower.  Anyone else see this in the photo?  Just curious!
Karen
USA - Sunday, May 13, 2001 at 02:11:50 (PDT)
107)  Thank you for sharing.  You have given me something to aim towards.  I am just starting my garden of my newly purchased home in Florida.
T. Boatright <momentumpub@hotmail.com >
Sarasota, FL USA - Saturday, April 28, 2001 at 08:52:21 (PDT)
106)  I LIKE THE WAY YOU ARRANGED YOUR WEB PAGE
I HAVE LOOKED AT 100'S OF GARDEN WEB PAGES AND YOURS RATES VERY HIGH WITH ME
I AM A RETIRED LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
BOB KLOUBEC <GLADBOBJOY@AOL.COM >
MOORHEAD MN USA - Tuesday, April 17, 2001 at 17:44:59 (PDT)
105)  Beautiful garden...beautiful website!!!
Thank you for bringing it to my attention with the comment about the canon tx.  I love mine.  My garden is quite new but I am hoping to get some good shots this year.  I'm amused by your time frame for flowers blooming, I'm in the frozen north and are waaaay behind you for spring.  I just have a few crocus out & it's April 13.  And we are bracing for a huge flood too.  Again THANKS!!
Penny Munson <pen3131@msn.com >
USA - Friday, April 13, 2001 at 20:33:30 (PDT)
104)  Thank you for your information to visit your update.  Wonderful garden - wonderful pictures.  Happy Easter from Austria.  Don't forget to visit my spring 2001 update.
 Klaus <Klaus.Herbert@chello.at >
Innsbruck, Austria - Friday, April 13, 2001 at 11:58:32 (PDT)
103)  Beautiful flowers!!! Just what I needed...Happy Easter and a Happy Spring!
 Joyce <joymark72995@msn.com >
Windham, ME  USA - Friday, April 13, 2001 at 04:38:39 (PDT)
102) Hello, Thanks for sending me your url.  I enjoyed the tour of your gardens very much. Our zones seem to be similar, according to what you have growing.  But you have many more roses than I.   I tend to stick to climbers and easy care types.  The hybrid teas are just too fussy for my liking!!(smile) Visit my site and sign my book, so I know you were there.  Thanks again for sharing.
 Tweety~Pye <jcwatsonw@yahoo.com >
Wetumpka, Al. USA - Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 07:20:21 (PDT)
101)  Hey Chuck, this is Katie from the Info Desk.  Beautiful flowers!!!
Katie < ksteve5@lsu.edu >
Gonzales, LA USA - Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 09:41:36 (PDT)
100) We really enjoyed the tour you gave us.  Drove by yesterday and noticed the front yard is spectacular right now. It's hard to believe you are able to keep such a huge garden in such great shape.
Peter & Liz Wright <scoutmasterp@home.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, April 09, 2001 at 20:00:15 (PDT)
99)  What a delight!  Thanks for sharing your love of gardens with us!
Brenda Waggenspack <waggensb@sjabr.org >
Baton Rouge USA - Monday, April 09, 2001 at 16:28:10 (PDT)
98)  Many thanks for your invite.  May I say your site is very colourful & the Bees Knees!!  May I cordially invite your Garden/ Pets/ Birds/ Wildlife lovers to my website where I have over 700 Fine Art prints on display including some Decoupage Craft Prints.  The Floral prints cover some absoluting breathtaking Victorian Flowers which your vistors may like to view.
 Paul Hussey <fab-prints@cwcom.net >
Waterlooville, Hampshire UK - Monday, April 09, 2001 at 00:53:10 (PDT)
97)  Loved the pictures and your clever path picture turned into button links.
 Sue <bttfly9@yahoo.com >
WI USA - Friday, April 06, 2001 at 19:59:21 (PDT)
96)  I went on the Hilltop Arboretum Garden Tour and and saw your garden.  It is a wonderful place, you have created.  I did not see any weed at all.  Do you pull them all by hand or is there something else you use?
Conny < abstract@tpbp.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Friday, April 06, 2001 at 11:18:17 (PDT)
95)  Great work - I really enjoy all the types of walkways.  I threw together a stone path with brick border - nice when finished, but I have small children so it's a daily adjustment here and there.  Just Love it, keep posting
IndianaSandy <sandramcnamara@hotmail.com >
Indiana USA - Friday, April 06, 2001 at 05:16:45 (PDT)
94)  A neighbor visited your place, and was so excited at the beauty and obvious work that went into this showplace. The next time you have a public viewing, I would really like to see Cloud's End.
JOSEPH M. TITONE <CPROMPTJOE@AOL.COM >
PORT ALLEN, LA United States - Tuesday, April 03, 2001 at 13:01:55 (PDT)
93)  I viewed your garden Sunday on the tour and think that it is wonderful - so fragrant and colorful.  The paths are my favorite thing.  They create the feeling of 'strolling leisurely' so that you're able to absorb all of the sights and smells.
You've also done a great job on this web site.  My favorite thing about it is your captions on all of the pictures.  They feel like you are giving me a personal tour of the whole garden at every season of the year. Great job!
Lapeyrousia Laxa - this plant must be one of my distant relatives in my family tree.  My maiden name is Laperouse and I'm from New Iberia.  Can you give me your source for this plant?  I'd like to get one.
Happy gardening,
Sybil McDonald <SybilMc001@home.com >
USA - Tuesday, April 03, 2001 at 09:29:06 (PDT)
92)  I adored your photos.  They make me long for spring!  I am planting many of the plants shown here for the first time and I am thrilled at how beautiful they are.  Thank you for sharing, keep up the hard work!
Josie
canada - Monday, April 02, 2001 at 19:36:51 (PDT)
91)  Dear Friends:  Thank you for your beautiful garden book.  I enjoyed seeing it tremendously as I had tickets for the tour but pulled a muscle and by Sunday could only hobble slowly around the house. Very sad!  Unfortunately, the other gardens on the tour will remain a mystery as I never even saw a write-up on them in the paper.  We were away and must have missed it.
Your photos are gorgeous and I enjoyed your growing information.  Nicotiana sounds like a good addition to the patio garden, and I also use the Homestead Verbena as a ground cover and give piles of it away to the neighbors.
Nice "meeting" you.
Kathleen Jimenez <KJimenez@Earthlink.net >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, April 02, 2001 at 08:31:11 (PDT)
90)  I enjoyed my visit yesterday with the Hilltop garden tours as well at the visit to your website.  Really enjoyed your garden, thanks so much for sharing it with all of us.
Bob Dillemuth <rdillem@lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge , La USA - Monday, April 02, 2001 at 08:24:05 (PDT)
89)  What beautiful photographs!  I really liked the organization of your web site. The thumbnail photographs in the frames that popup into full sized pictures with explanations is very original. I hope your gardens are as picturesque this year as your photos of prior years.  jl
 Jane <tillerbee@earthlink.net >
Pine, CO USA - Sunday, April 01, 2001 at 18:28:03 (PDT)
88)  Your talent in gardening, design AND photography are incredible.
I thoroughly enjoyed the visit to your garden.  Thanks for inviting me. ~bb
barbie < bb1051@swbell.net >
Chesterfield, Mo USA - Sunday, April 01, 2001 at 17:59:01 (PDT)
87)  What a wonderful garden this must be in SPRING!  Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Yvonne < vonarnold@hotmail.com >
Australia - Friday, March, 30, 2001 at 17:14:53 (PDT)
86)  Great garden!  I saw you in the Advocate and thought I'd drop by.  Keep up the good work.
 David Gary <dgary@redstick.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Tuesday, March, 27, 2001 at 19:53:25 (PDT)
85)  This is a delightful site!  Keep up the great gardening work and reap the rewards of it.
 cathy <cathyarnett@netscape.net >
Greenwell Springs, LA USA - Monday, March, 26, 2001 at 20:28:13 (PDT)
84)  Positively beautiful!!!  Thanks for sharing it with those of us who are green thumb handicapped.
Danita LeBlanc <dleblanc@lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, March, 26, 2001 at 10:11:26 (PDT)
83)  I enjoyed your Garden Tour and can imagine how wonderfully tired you must be!  I garden too, and appreciate all the hard work that went into your Garden, it's just lovely!!  Thanks for sharing it with me.
Glenda Cearnal <gcearnal@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, La USA - Saturday, March, 24, 2001 at 15:54:10 (PDT)
82)  What a treat to view your garden this Friday morning!  I wrote down a lot of flower names to look for for my yard.  Thank you so much!
Susan Motsinger <smotsin@lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge, La USA - Friday, March, 23, 2001 at 08:21:42 (PDT)
81)  Read the article in the Advocate and then went over to your site...Gorgeous!!!  I know lots of hard work has gone into your garden but it all looks so natural.  Would love to see it in person when in full bloom.  Take care guys and keep having fun gardening!!!
Charity Merritt <cmerritt@lsers.state.la.us >
Gonzales, La USA - Friday, March, 23, 2001 at 07:53:21 (PDT)
80)  Great Pictures and can't wait to see it in person one day with Hal and I.  Good Luck with the tour of the gardens.
Take care Guys.
Danny Fontenot <BR2Boys@aol.com > or < danny@che.lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Friday, March, 23, 2001 at 07:28:13 (PDT)
79)  WOW!!!
Sorry I haven't been by to pick up our bag, It's our busy season.
Great job!
Joey (Jimstone Co.)
USA - Friday, March, 23, 2001 at 04:52:42 (PDT)
78)  I was looking at your web site to get some ideas for my garden.  You have georgeous flowers.   I got some great ideas.  Thanks
Celeste Canezaro <ccanezaro@yahoo.com >
Livonia, LA USA - Thursday, March, 22, 2001 at 08:54:06 (PDT)
77)  Hey, guys!  The pictures are incredible.  I'm glad I decided to use my lunch hour today to check it out.  We look forward to seeing you and the garden soon!
Carlo Cuneo <ccuneo@juno.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Tuesday, March, 20, 2001 at 11:26:35 (PDT)
76)  The roses were beautiful.  My son liked the 'EasyLiving' rose.  The pathways are so relaxing and inviting. Wonderful site, I'd love to recreate your look around my home.
Ann Romero <Nelson-Ann@msn.com >
Riverside, CA USA - Tuesday, March, 13, 2001 at 20:20:26 (PDT)
75)  I enjoyed the pictures tremendously.  They are beautiful.
Patricia Andre <biggnaw@eatel.net >
Livonia, , La. USA - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 09:08:39 (PDT)
74)  A beautiful name for a great garden and terrific photos, well presented.  What else can I say? Just to write "Thank you for sharing with us" and I look forward to adding your pages to my Suite101.com link so other folk may enjoy your lovely photos
 Gay Klok <gklok@trump.net.au >
Hobart, Tas Australia - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 03:05:45 (PDT)
73)  Chuck,   I am so amazed!   I have no words to express how impressed I am,  not only with your garden, but with this site!  WOW - would be a good start . . .  Thanks for inviting me into your world.
Catherine Wells <cwells37@hotmail.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Saturday, February 17, 2001 at 12:49:03 (PDT)
72)  thanks for the lovely views of your garden.  you should be very proud.
peggy mason
USA - Saturday, February 10, 2001 at 10:14:20 (PDT)
71)  Love the photos! Great job!
 MistyRain <mistyrain@themail.com >
USA - Friday, February 09, 2001 at 07:43:32 (PDT)
70)  I really love your website and your garden! The pictures are so great.  I'm a student at the LSU Veterinary School.  Even though I have a small apartment, I have a garden in my 15'X9' patio area!  I love dahlias, iris, miniature roses, and sunflowers!
Nikki Palermo <npalermo@mail.vetmed.lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Sunday, February 04, 2001 at 21:02:31 (PDT)
69)  I like the website, the design is very nice.  The way it is organized is great.  I particularly like the picture of Mme Isaac Pereire, was impressed with the size 20 ft.  That is amazing.
Overall, a very nice web page and a beautiful garden.
Avis < avisogr@netscape.net >
NJ USA - Thursday, January 18, 2001 at 14:40:20 (PDT)
68)  Clicked over from the G'web, you're doing some real fine work here.  I love the vines too, especially the old ones.  I will be back if my old pc J.C. Higgens permits, it has vacuum tubes, not Silicon Valley stuff.
Jimmy A. Clayton
USA - Thursday, January 18, 2001 at 06:16:24 (PDT)
67)  You go girl!!!! That was absolutely beautiful!!
Cindy < cheniercc@yahoo.com >
New Orleans, LA USA - Wednesday, January 17, 2001 at 14:15:35 (PDT)
66)  Hello,  Have looked at lots of home pages of yards and flowers but your photos are really outstanding, and I did really enjoy them
Bob Kloubec, a retired landscape designer and flower lover
Moohead, Minn USA - Thursday, January 11, 2001 at 01:18:01 (PDT)
65)  Hey Guys!  Everything looks beautiful. Can't wait to see it in person this coming spring. Keep up the good work.
Cody King
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 09:11:29 (PDT)
64)  Absolutely breathtaking gardens! Wow! I have been flower gardening for 2 years and I'm doing many things from seed. This spring I started 125 varieties of perennials. I noticed many of the japanese iris I started this spring are really quite large already. I'm hoping for many blooms next year and many years after too. Thanks for sharing your wonderful garden!
Becky Borntreger <alco@worthlink >
Oakland, IL USA - Wednesday, November 15, 2000 at 17:39:27 (PST)
63)  I was meandering my way to you and I am so glad that I did.  What breathtaking photos and such a wonderful work of art you have created.  I am in the process and I need to get better at killing Bermuda Grass so that I can plant some beds of flowers and shrubs.  Such a big job.  So glad you shared your life with me.  You inspire me to grab my shovel and get off of the computer!!
thanks sissi
--Do you ever have seeds to your clematis?  I have Sweet Autumn (white). thanks
sissi brackney <chfmktymuk@home.com >
el cajon, ca USA - Friday, September 29, 2000 at 00:00:57 (PDT)
62)  Chuck & Van, Thanks for letting Michele & I invade your space and garden a few months ago. We truly enjoyed getting together and seeing the fantastic Cloud's End in person.  Although the photos on this site are great they don't do justice to the garden itself.  Great site, greater garden.   PS.  We'll add you as a link to us! Go Bulldogs!
 Eric & Michele Lyman <eml862@bellsouth.net >
Brusly, LA USA - Friday, September 22, 2000 at 04:11:09 (PDT)
61)  Have my own developing cottage garden. You have many inspiring views.  I love your beautiful winding path and arbour; something I've always wanted.  Always brilliant to see such a marvellous garden.
Kristy Nelson <pookiebaby2002@Yahoo.com >
WA, Australia - Wednesday, September 20, 2000 at 22:27:00 (PDT)
60)  hi uncle chuck and van your garden is beautiful!!!!!!!! we just got a computer on friday so i will try to keep in touch better this is all i will say now i will send you a regular e-mail later love you britt
brittany booksh comstock <james_comstock@hotmail.com >
grand forks afb, nd USA - Sunday, August 20, 2000 at 19:00:26 (PDT)
59)  sorry it took me so long to view your web pages. finally finished my church furniture, now i take a day off. needless to say , your site is very, very beautiful and inspiring.....i think i'll go work in the garden now. be well you beautiful people.
rock in new orleans <rock70119@yahoo.com >
USA - Sunday, August 20, 2000 at 15:46:46 (PDT)
58)  Lovely, lovely, lovely....
jerri
USA - Sunday, July 16, 2000 at 19:05:46 (PDT)
57)  So glad to see another Baton Rouge garden on the web!  I love the way your site is organized--and I love your garden too... The changes you have made in your property since you first moved in are amazing!
 Jane <patters@concentric.net >
Baton Rouge, La USA - Monday, July 03, 2000 at 20:22:39 (PDT)
 56)  Was browsing through and had to comment. What a beautiful garden you have! All the plants look healthy and happy.  All your pictures are gorgeous too.  I was especially interested in your "Della's ginger".  I grow some gingers myself, and by no means am an expert, but I believe that plant is Curcuma petiolata.  I know for sure it is a Curcuma, but I'm not 100% certain it's that species.  I grow Curcumas, Zingibers, one Globba (schomburgkii), Kaempferias, Hedychiums and so on.  I have really gotten into these plants in the last two years.  I have pictures of my plants.  If you'd be interested to see them, email me.  Again, really enjoyed touring your garden!
Alan Hunt <greenyard@worldnet.att.net >
Atlanta, GA USA - Friday, June 23, 2000 at 16:54:54 (PDT)
55)  Hi Chuck and Van, Your site is looking fantastic! I finally added a link from my site - so sorry it took so long. Keep up the great work!
 Phillip Oliver <oliver@hiwaay.net >
Florence, AL USA - Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 12:53:24 (PDT)
54)  You have a lovely website. I really like your format. Your stone pathway with the arbor, etc. is just beautiful. I have a perennial/rose garden (with annuals, also) that has somewhat the same look. Very, very lovely.
Jane Master <bjmaster@tricountyi.net >
McAlisterville, PA USA - Tuesday, June 06, 2000 at 03:18:47 (PDT)
53)  You have a great site !
 toh
Singapore - Monday, May 29, 2000 at 15:12:46 (PDT) 
52)  Marie Burnaman <Burnason@aol.com >
TX, USA - Monday, May 08, 2000 at 19:58:47 (PDT) 
51)  I finally had a chance to look at your website.  I am glad I got to see it for real.  These pics make me relive the beauty.  Enjoyed the visit.
Dennis Brewin
USA - Friday, May 05, 2000 at 15:58:45 (PDT) 
50) My husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Cloud's End in mid-April.  What a beautiful place...!!!!  Chuck and Van are to be commended for their hard work.  I am so jealous....I have trouble maintaining potted house plants....Good luck with the garden....
Anita Elisar <amertour@worldnet.att.net >
San Antonio, TX USA - Wednesday, May 03, 2000 at 16:04:23 (PDT) 
49)  Just wandered round your website, having spent our bank holiday weekend creating some more flowerbeds in my small English cottage garden.  I envy you your space, as my back garden is only 17' x 60' and my front garden only 17' x 20' (approx) so I can't get many plants in.  However at the moment my front garden looks wonderful with a standard wisteria chinensis alba in full bloom underplanted with aquilegia and forget-me-not.  I also have clumps of primroses that originally came from my Mother's garden in Cornwall and are now seeding everywhere.  The daffodils and tulips have just finished and then it's on to the roses, phlox and penstemmon, etc.  Not sure about the back garden yet, it's mostly large bare beds, apart from a Bramley apple and lots of forget-me-not!  Will enjoy looking at your garden again.
Kate Crombie <kate@limesroad.freeserve.co.uk >
Beckenham, England - Tuesday, May 02, 2000 at 03:09:51 (PDT) 
48)  Looks lovely, thanks for all the work you did to share it with us. We have a Begonia Festival in March each year and our Botanic gardens and Conservatory look at their best then, maybe you could visit one day.
Sue Rhook
Ballarat, Australia - Tuesday, May 02, 2000 at 00:44:26 (PDT)
47)  Hi y'all!  I visit often, but have never signed your guestbook.  I love looking at your gorgeous garden, (and my students do too, as I often check it during our computer time at school - today one said "Can I play THAT game??") though it makes me feel slightly inadequate considering my simple attempts!  The rose cutting you gave me is doing great though.  Is ALL of your garden that easy to grow?  Ha Ha!!  Hope we can visit it (oh, and y'all) again this summer.
Jamie ("baby" sister) <goozerette@yahoo.com >
League City, TX USA - Monday, May 01, 2000 at 07:48:37 (PDT) 
46) beautiful garden, paths, roses and NICOTIANAS!!!  Bravo the nicotianas!
 Nick Edgar <uncleeggy@xtra.co.nz >
West Melton, New Zealand - Monday, May 01, 2000 at 02:48:18 (PDT) 
45)  Your gardens are beautiful.  I am amazed at how many of the same plants we are able to grow here in Northern California.  Thank you for posting this wonderful site.
sps < ssidell@etpfunds.com >
USA - Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 20:42:02 (PDT) 
44)  VERY NICE PICTURES ENJOYED THE SCENERY --- MOM
BARBARA BOOKSH
USA - Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 18:32:52 (PDT) 
43)  This is waaaaay cool guys!
Kyle and Belinda <kbooksh@evesta.com >
USA - Thursday, April 27, 2000 at 18:19:58 (PDT) 
42)  Thanks for the great web page.  Lots of ideas that might work in my new lot up in Magnolia, TX.
Mason < wrm3@hotmail.com >
Katy, TX USA - Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 12:07:55 (PDT) 
41)  Van and Chuck: The site is just beautiful as is the garden at Cloud's End.  Let's do lunch soon!
Michele Darce Lyman <Mizz911@aol.com >
Brusly, LA USA - Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 07:02:19 (PDT) 
40)  Hi there, Your Uncle Johnny sent me your URL... Wow what beautiful pages... The flowers are just GREAT.  It is so nice to have cable too...  It loads in a snap... Again you have done a wonderful job.
 Virginia <vroach@logicsouth.com >
South Carolina, USA - Monday, April 24, 2000 at 18:10:05 (PDT) 
39)  Wow!  Your place is gorgeous!  Hoss says you would surely like to come over and do our place.
Hoss & Kit (Ernie & Alma) <hosskit@aol.com >
Pensacola, FL USA - Friday, April 14, 2000 at 22:15:35 (PDT) 
38)  Simply great!  Did you begin your landscape with a plan or did it grow organically?!  I see you are a bit of a rose lover!  I hope you open your garden for charitiy tours because I want to be first in line to see it!  I just love seeing what others in my region are growing.  Does your poppy repeat for you or do you grow it as an annual?
Kathryn < J.andKathrynWhite@worldnet.att.net >
Mandeville, LA USA - Sunday, April 02, 2000 at 23:22:27 (PDT) 
37)  Beautiful - this is the type of garden I dream about!
jacki < jacki@hfx.andara.com >
halifax, ns canada - Sunday, April 02, 2000 at 04:12:50 (PDT)
36)  Your website looks great!  It's a real motivator.  I'm with Helen, I'll have to see this in person one day.  Maybe Stacey, Mom & I will come some day.  You two did a marvelous job with the yard and the website.  Keep it up!
Jessi < JandDBay@aol.com >
Grosse Tete, LA USA - Friday, March 31, 2000 at 22:21:46 (PST) 
35)  Beautiful pictures.  I can appreciate the great effort on your stone walk.  I laid a walk that's only about 9-10 ft by 2 ft wide and it seemed to take forever.
Connie < jimernster@bigfoot.com >
Louisville, KY USA - Tuesday, March 28, 2000 at 13:06:09 (PST) 
34)  Great Website Van!  But, where's Kew?  Did you forget about him?  Miss you guys.
Beth < WowBeth@aol.com >
San Diego, CA USA - Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 09:49:31 (PST)
33)  Great garden and easy to navigate web.  Well done.
 Adelaide & Graham <grahamdunn@adelaide.on.net >
Adelaide - South Australia - Friday, March 24, 2000 at 23:29:37 (PST)
32)  MAGNIFICENT!  Can't get enough of your pics!
Madeline Kessler <davidahlgren@home.com > or <mkessler@lsu.edu >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Thursday, March 23, 2000 at 08:12:10 (PST) 
31) What a magnificent garden Cloud's End is ... I have enjoyed browsing through your breathtaking photos.  You have an awesome talent and love of gardening, and it shows.  Your photos are all just gorgeous ... your shot of Hale-Bopp Comet is great!  I love all of your Clematis ... it's one of my favorites.  Thank you for your visit to my garden, and your kind comments in my guestbook.  And, thank you for sharing Cloud's End with us ... it has been a true pleasure!
 Shelley <shel712@yahoo.com >
La USA - Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 12:55:03 (PST)
30) The web site is beautiful.  The photos you have taken of roses remind me of the Audubon field guides we often use with students.  I can't wait to see your latest addition this summer: a small lily pond with a gently trickling water fall!
Brian Fontenot <bfonteno@hal.calc.k12.la.us >
Lake Charles, LA USA - Wednesday, March 15, 2000 at 10:05:12 (PST) 
29)  Beautiful.
Darlene Thorn <DA13175@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Monday, March 13, 2000 at 09:36:58 (PST) 
28)  Oh! That good ol' fertile soil!  I once had this kind of soil to work with when I lived in Mobile, AL.  Here in GA on the coast, it is sand, sand, sand!  I loved visiting with you here.  You give a good tour.  You are a very good gardener, and an outstanding photographer.  Things are always changing in a Garden... keep snapping those pictures and sharing!
 Susie Headley <sheadley@darientel.net >
McIntosh County, GA USA - Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 20:37:50 (PST) 
27)  Your site is the most awesome site I have seen.  Wow.  Amazing, and wonderful.  I have made a little garden webpage, not like yours but would love to share it with you, Thanks so much for sharing yours.
 Gardengirl (Brenda) <bobbrenda@ns.sympatico.ca >
Nova Scotia, Canada - Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 15:34:10 (PST) 
26)  Lovely, lovely photographs. The whole garden looks beautiful and your love of plants shines through.  I would like to grow the Iris you have pictured on page 5 of your perennials photos but you have not named it.
 Nicola <dirtynails@green-fingers.co.uk >
England - Friday, March 10, 2000 at 10:37:30 (PST)
25)  Beautiful web page.  Has inspired me greatly!!  Did you have a design background?  That's where I falter.
Deb Southwell <D_Southwell@msn.com >
Marlborough, NH USA - Sunday, March 05, 2000 at 11:32:43 (PST) 
24)  This is an awesome site.  I thoroughly enjoyed all of your pictures and the really nice descriptions and information regarding the pics. I am a former resident of Mandeville and Slidell, for a brief 3-yr period of time, and I so miss all the wonderful tropicals I could grow there.  Seems like lots of Louisiana gardeners grow Ginger.  Do you have any of those?  I am SO jealous of the Spigelia Marilandica that just "showed up" in your garden!  What a gift!  I'm off to see if I can find one!!!
Karen Martin <Sunny1055@aol.com >
Edmond, OK USA - Saturday, March 04, 2000 at 09:30:05 (PST) 
23)  Your sight is absolutely gorgeous.  Linda Lee and I are close friends and she turned me on to your sight...what a joy.  As a La. Master Gardener and Landscape Contractor I have viewed nearly every Garden Web Ring sight on the net & yours is, by far, the best.  Your passion for gardening is obvious.  I will be checking in from time to time for updates.  It's great having someone from good ole' Louisiana with a site...I feel connected.  My husband and I just finished building a home in Clinton on 10 acres, so I'm starting with a blank canvas.  I outgrew my .75 acre yard so had to get a bigger place to 'play'.  I look forward to the weekends to get down in dirt & this weekend is going to be an ideal one.  Thanks again for sharing your beautiful place.
Tricia Stroughter <tricia_stroughter@generalhealth.org >
Clinton, LA USA - Friday, March 03, 2000 at 09:48:54 (PST) 
22) This is really pretty.  What gave you the idea?  I love the idea. :-) It makes me smile...
Fran Booksh <fbooksh@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Wednesday, March 01, 2000 at 16:42:11 (PST) 
21) Hey, Van!! Very nice web-site. Of course I've already seen all your pictures, and have already seen your backyard in person, so,... can you develop an index of all the photos with the dates, and which ones I haven't seen yet??  That way I could go straight to the new ones.  Now, THAT would be really cool! (And should keep you busy for a few more weeks.)
Al Landry <Bigalandry@aol.com >
Chicago, IL USA - Wednesday, March 01, 2000 at 12:24:45 (PST) 
20) It's beautiful - would you come and do mine?
Rene Geerts
USA - Wednesday, March 01, 2000 at 10:50:35 (PST) 
19) Hello to you all!  I haven't been in touch with you all in a long time!  I think you all have done such a great job on the whole nine yards of your long term project and I want to say that I am so proud of you all and what you have done.  I will be moving soon and this is a wonderful way for me to feel closer to you all.  Keep up the great work!  Til I see you all again!  Take care!
Stacey Blanchard (Collins) <StaB22071@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Wednesday, March 01, 2000 at 07:20:18 (PST) 
18) Thank you for visiting Shady Nooks.  Your garden makes my little postage stamp look pretty unimpressive!  I was enthralled!  You must love to spend time just walking and sitting in it!  I am afraid mine is in for a hard time--restricted to watering twice a month now due to drought.  Lost all but one of the eleagnus shrubs that framed my yard to cotton rooot rot.  Will probably spend this summer trying to recreate the frame with resistant shrubs. Most discouraging as the eleagnus were nine feet tall and twelve years old.  Sigh.  Will be back for inspiration. Thank you for sharing this beautiful garden.  Oh, also, Hank's garden was in southern California and he had to leave it when transferred to the Seattle area-- he looking forward to creating a new garden with a whole new set of plantings.
 mommio <mommio@wcc.net >
San Angelo, TX USA - Monday, February 28, 2000 at 17:42:39 (PST) 
17) Hi~~ Your garden is just lovely!  I can tell it's a labor of love for you as it is for me.  Given enough time, I hope mine can be as lush and full.  Please come visit me again.  I'll post more pictures just as soon as my garden comes back to life.  I can hardly wait to see what a difference another year has made...and I'm sure you feel exactly the same way!!
 Harriet <anabeth@ivillage.com >
KY USA - Monday, February 28, 2000 at 17:22:55 (PST) 
16) Wow! I am going to have to come and see this in person!
Helen Booksh and Carrie <Mhbooksh@aol.com >
Maringouin, LA USA - Sunday, February 27, 2000 at 17:31:46 (PST) 
15) I really enjoyed looking at your pictures and would like to visit your lovely garden in person.  Do you charge an admission for visitors?  Is this a full-time job for you or do you work elsewhere?  You have a beautiful collection of flowers so keep up the GOOD WORK!
Kandee Wickboldt <KandeeW@aol.com >
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Friday, February 25, 2000 at 19:18:22 (PST) 
14) Hey Van - WOW!
Lisa
USA - Friday, February 25, 2000 at 17:24:35 (PST)
13) Very Beautiful.  Thanks for sending it to me.
Yvette < misspurrsonality@hotmail.com >
Prairieville, LA USA - Friday, February 25, 2000 at 16:01:35 (PST) 
12) Aloha dudes!  Great website...
Chuckee Flaherty <oneheart@aloha.net >
Captain Cook, HI USA - Friday, February 25, 2000 at 11:31:49 (PST) 
11) What a lovely garden tour this was!!
Jim Gershey <gershey@regents.state.la.us >
USA - Thursday, February 24, 2000 at 14:13:43 (PST) 
10) This is probably the most beautiful display of flowers and trees, etc., I have seen.  You did a beautiful job.  The buttons on the page are so cool with the little walkway.  Did you do all the photography?  You are very talented.
Mary < vanfam4@lanset.com >
Orangevale, Ca USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 21:48:01 (PST)
9) Magnificent.
Betty Landry (Mama)
Jennings, LA USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 20:36:15 (PST) 
8) Beautiful - My first comments didn't get posted.  But as I remember I said the same thing.  The red on black and the fonts you used are very classy.
Bob Landry (Daddy) <boblandry1@cfweb.net >
Jennings, LA USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 20:32:02 (PST) 
7) What a beautiful site! (and I just looked at the roses so far--are you surprised??) It makes me want to visit the REAL thing!
Karen < midlandkid@yahool.com >
LA, USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 20:21:25 (PST) 
6) Thanks for sharing the beauty of your garden with me.
Angie Gaudet Gary <DOUBLEDIPS@aol.com >
Jennings, LA USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 16:38:10 (PST) 
5) What a beautiful job here!  Loved the pictures!  Thanks so much!  Your gardens are worth sharing they are beautiful!
 Charlotte Gann <charlotteg@prodigy.net >
Hendersonville, TN USA - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 17:49:16 (PST) 
4) Beautiful pictures, we will looking again soon.
Paul Pilcher <RPilcher@msn.com >
Broussard, La USA - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 16:33:52 (PST) 
3) Hi, Compliments on your new webpage.  I loved the photos and I will certainly make a new link to my website.
 Yvonne Somers <wysp@tref.nl >
The Netherlands - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 12:47:01 (PST) 
2) Wow!  You are as industrious on the website as you are in the garden. Very cool site and I've only browsed for a few minutes.  I'll be back to see more later.
Rob < Landrob@aol.com >
Denver, CO USA - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 07:53:53 (PST) 
1) Wow! from the pictures I would think that y'all live at the footsteps of the great smoky mountains!
 Chris Bonin <chris.bonin@mail.com >
San Francisco, CA USA - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 07:42:58 (PST)  

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