Re: Weather

well I am glad she found her space.... Wonder why she
never became an active member in our group... only
attended one meeting in the two (?) years she was a
member. We would have let her do lotsa things, even
ones that where her ideas :)

Donna


--- Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:

> Well, you can't hold this woman down for long.  I
> just got a message from
> her:
> "...MG wise I'm teaching a composting class Wed.
> a.m. at our extension
> office and again in early May... I'm also going to
> establish a native plant
> plot in our MG bed beside the library.  I believe it
> will be about 10x10 ft.
> Friday I'm going to a lecture by a native plant
> nursery. "
> 
> Existing groups can be very difficult to break in
> to.  When I became an MG,
> I was given a few tasks to help unburden some other
> MGs and was met with
> great resistence.  I was threatened, told to know my
> place, that I couldn't
> participate in anything that already was being done,
> even told I had joined
> the MGs under a black cloud.  I weathered it and now
> I'm doing a lot of
> things - mostly things no one else would do and that
> really need doing and
> some things that were being done very poorly, I've
> made some strides in
> straightening them out.
> 
> Kitty
> neIN, Z5
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather
> 
> 
> > Good grief! What an ignorant bunch.  I don't blame
> Debbie for quitting.
> I'd
> > have done the same thing.  Our MG group is also
> terrible about using
> > botanical names when discussing plants because
> they think they are too
> > confusing, but they don't get as carried away as
> Debbie's ex-group.
> > zem
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
> Center"
> > <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather
> >
> >
> > > Donna, you once met a fellow MG of mine, Debbie
> Meade at one of your
> > > native
> > > plant meetings.  She has since moved to
> Pennsylvania.  She joined a
> > > natives
> > > group there and suggested a plant sale and
> contacted me about some of
> the
> > > ins and outs of plants sales we conduct here. 
> As it turned out, this
> was
> > > one of those close-knit groups that isn't very
> comfortable with
> newcomers
> > > trying to contribute too much. Among many other
> useful suggestions she
> had
> > > that they shot down was the use of botanical
> names.  They told her that
> no
> > > botanical names could be used ( not even at the
> bottom of a tag) because
> > > they are just too confusing, too snooty.  Debbie
> quit.
> > >
> > > Kitty
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:05 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Weather
> > >
> > >
> > >> Well today was the native plant groups sale....
> was worried the nice
> > > weather
> > >> would keep folks home working in their gardens
> instead of heading by
> > > us....
> > >> but they came out in droves...it's was a long
> day.....
> > >>
> > >> Good thing I don't have to talk... cause the
> voice is gone!
> > >>
> > >> Donna
> > >>
> > >> > It's been gorgeous here but still no sign of
> rain.  We potted up
> about
> > > 700
> > >> > plants for our MG nursery yestwerday and
> we'll finish up tomorrow
> > >> > afternoon.
> > >> > I still have lotsof plants coming in for the
> display gardens that I
> > >> > have
> > >> > to
> > >> > babysit for a while.  I ordered a Glaucidium
> that I need to convince
> > >> > one
> > >> > of
> > >> > the shade gardens to take on.  When I got my
> own a few years back I
> had
> > > to
> > >> > wait a couple of years for it to bloom.  This
> one is blooming in the
> > > pot.
> > >> >
> > >> > Kitty
> > >>
> > >>
>
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