Posted some of this on the Cottage Garden forum but thought it would also be applicable in the Garden with Kids forum too...

Okay, so maybe I'm more than just a little jazzed here!! After my wanting to get a Pembroke Welsh Corgi for years, the time to get one will be soon! To me its THE quintessential dog well suited for our active and energetic family, and to go very pleasantly with our English Style/Cottage Garden style gardens, the children's special Secret Garden and our little life in this home we've created here.

Yeah, so I'm biased... HA! I've been enamored of Pembrokes ever since I discovered Tasha Tudor's life and gardens via Victoria magazine many years ago, and then got many of her wonderful children's books early in the lives of our children. Early this year, we met with a breeder in our area to see PW Corgis up close and personal. This last weekend their was a local club meet for PWC, we talked for quite a while with a couple with three young children about their "life with a corgi" to get the "real" story.

We won't be getting a puppy as its been recommended to us that an older dog will be a better fit for our family, especially with the energy level and temperament of primarily our almost 11 yo son. The breeder (same breeder the family we spoke with got theirs from) wants to get a Champion rating with this dog, (almost by then will be 5 yo, and is a female)and also wants to breed it one more time. After it has had the puppies and gets spayed, it will come to join our family. It could be end up being a few months or many months out, but we are willing to wait!

In the meantime, we're going to gear up for having a dog in our lives. Just ordered two books on PWC on eBay, and got a Welsh Corgis magazine at the local pet store. I can just see myself taking pictures of our Corgi out among the flowering plants, having her join me as I work in the gardens, and the dog playing in the children's Secret garden with our son and daughter... fun fun!

We just pulled "Corgiville Fair" and "The Great Corgiville Kidnapping" both by Tasha Tudor out of the children's bookcase to reread with them! Love these books. All of her other books show beautiful drawings of her gardens and animals, we highly recommend this author for good quality books for children!

To see pics of our children's Secret Garden in progress and other garden projects and our Roses we grow here, ck out my Picture Trail:

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Here is a link that might be useful: look at the Landscaping Projects 2007 and Favorite ROSES we grow albums