Re: Re: Re: landscape

OK raining agin - maybe tomorrow Bonnie!

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
Sent: 6/29/2004 6:14:15 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re:  [CHAT] Re: landscape

> Cool, if it sin't raining when I get home, will collect those and send.  Gee, that will be two packages this week - LOL.
> 
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan
> Sent: 6/28/2004 10:47:48 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: Re: [CHAT] Re: landscape
> 
> > Thanks, Pam!  I'd like that!!!
> > 
> > Blessings,
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> > Of gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:17 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Re: landscape
> > 
> > Bonnie - I leave mine for the butterflies until they get ratty and seedy
> > looking then I pull them up. I've still got some left to yank and can
> > save you some seeds if you would like them? They come back like
> > gangbusters every year! That's provided they haven't washed away in the
> > monsoon this am - LOL
> > 
> > 
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> > Sent: 6/27/2004 9:59:58 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: landscape
> > 
> > > Bonnie, my grandmother, who had moved from upstate NY to Fla as a child,
> > was 
> > > very 
> > > proud of growing Queen Ann's Lace in her garden. I was really surprised to
> > 
> > > find it as
> > > a roadside weed when I moved north.  I remember that she taught me to
> > color 
> > > it by
> > > putting the stems in water colored with Easter-egg dyes. The flowers would
> > 
> > > take up the color and be pink, blue, green, or whatever.  She would make 
> > > bouquets of vari-colored blossoms.  
> > > I still allow some in my garden, but then I grow milkweed, too. I think it
> > is 
> > > a handsome
> > > plant and I love the scent of the flowers.  It grows in the narrow space 
> > > between the drive
> > > and the large boulder, and when it blooms, the whole area smells of it. 
> > > People tell me
> > > I have to get rid of those weeds, but they are really a favorite of mine.
> > > Auralie
> > > 
> > > In a message dated 06/27/2004 10:46:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> > > wmorgan972@ameritech.net writes:
> > > I've been having trouble finding Queen Ann's Lace in our neighborhood.  I
> > > finally found some in an open lot across from Bill's office building and
> > > trudge through waist high (and higher) weeds to get to them.  I'd like to
> > > dig some up and put it in my garden, but I'd need to make certain of
> > > ownership and ask permission.  They'll probably look at me like I'm crazy
> > > for wanting a "weed." LOL!!!
> > > 
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