Re: Weather

I hadn't really notcied that.  In my MG nursery group of 7, I'm the only one
with a pet.
Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather


> I agree with you, Kitty.  Not only are most MGs very nice people, seems to
> me that most MGs are also animal people.
> zem
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center"
> <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather
>
>
> > Just a few are like that, but they were the ones I encountered first.  I
> > also remember when I worked my first plant sale, I was asked to write up
> > handouts for certain plants that we had a lot of.  When anyone picked up
> > one, I offered them a flier.  I didn't know who was an MG and who was
just
> > an ordinary customer.  A lady picked up a daylily and I asked if she'd
> > like
> > a cultivation sheet to which she replied snottily, "I THINK I'd KNOW how
> > to
> > grow a DAYLILY!"  How was I to know?
> >
> > Everything's much nicer now.  I know to steer clear of a few people.
But
> > most MGs are pretty nice people.
> > Kitty
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Lynda Young" <lyoung@grindertaber.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:35 AM
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Weather
> >
> >
> >> Kitty, they are lucky you persevered; but, really, they sound like an
> >> obnoxious group of people.
> >>
> >> Lynda
> >> Zone 7 - West TN
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> >> Behalf Of Kitty
> >> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:18 PM
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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