Re: Weather

Hard telling, it might have been the distance to your meetings from Ft.
Wayne.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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