Re: today..../MG state convention

Oh yes ma'am please!   I could do a commercial for HCG I've got so
much of their stuff in my yard!

On 6/12/05, pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Pam,
> He was great.  I will try to go over my notes and share some of the stuff he
> recommended.
> Tricia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] today..../MG state convention
> 
> 
> >I love HCG!   Bet David Salman was very interesting.  Would have loved
> > to hear that talk.  Their xeriscape stuff is the greatest.  And they
> > have a very cool way of packing & mailing plants.
> >
> >
> > On 6/11/05, pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> We had our State Master Gardener Convention here this weekend.  I think
> >> it
> >> went very well.  We had David Salman from High Country Gardens as a
> >> speaker.
> >> I was in charge of the microphones so I got to talk to him a lot.  He is
> >> such a knowledgeable man.  We also had a landscape architect from OKC,
> >> John
> >> Fluitt, the son of the owners of Horn Canna farm, Dustin Snow and 2
> >> speakers
> >> from OSU on Potential Exotic Pests, Their ID & Control.  We ended with a
> >> talk and tour of Sunshine Gardens where the owner Steve Bieberich
> >> explained
> >> how he grows trees in an air pruning box.  We were suppose to have a
> >> meteorologist from OKC but we have had potential tornadoes all weekend so
> >> at
> >> the last minute he had to cancel.  It all worked out well...  David just
> >> took  a little longer with his slides.
> >> On Thursday night we had an open invitation to the Master Gardeners from
> >> all
> >> over the state to stop by the Blair Cabin for ice cream and cookies.  We
> >> have been working on a heirloom garden there for several years but this
> >> year
> >> we had a mural painted behind a log cabin and now we are waiting on
> >> everything to grow in to give a 3D effect.  We seeded in 5 different
> >> kinds
> >> of native grasses and buckwheat, put in a dry creek bed and some bigger
> >> cedars to try to make it hard to tell where the painting ends.
> >> Now back to working in my garden again.  David gave me several new wants
> >> for
> >> my lot, where I don't water at all.
> >> I now  need to work on my talk for the class I am teaching on Ornamental
> >> grasses.  I have put it off until this was over.
> >> Tricia
> >> (where we are in a tornado warning again tonight)
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center"
> >> <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 6:34 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] today....
> >>
> >>
> >> > Well, I worked in A/C that was often too cold.  On my lunch I went to
> >> > the
> >> > gardens; we had a "workday" - getting ready for our first garden walk
> >> > and
> >> > second plant sale next week.  It was'nt quite as bad today as the rest
> >> > of
> >> > the week (one case of heat stroke yesterday) but everyone was cautioned
> >> > to
> >> > take breaks and drink fluids.  Stormed a couple of times this
> >> > afternoon.
> >> > When it is hot and muggy like this, there isn't much point in trying to
> >> > garden between say Noon and 4pm.  Just get up early or stay at it late.
> >> > No
> >> > spider bites here, but several mosquito bites yesterday.  I worked back
> >> > and
> >> > forth between home & CES til 2, took a nap, and then worked at CES 4-8.
> >> >
> >> > Kitty
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> >> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 4:28 PM
> >> > Subject: [CHAT] today....
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> I have no idea how you folks deal with this heat! It is no where the
> >> >> same
> >> >> here in zone 5 than in lets say-- Pam's, Theresa, or Jims gardens.
> >> >>
> >> >> Ended up taking more breaks for water than working! Managed to fall
> >> >> into
> >> >> a
> >> >> window well and get bite by a spider... Geesh... gardening was just
> >> >> not
> >> >> meant for me today!
> >> >>
> >> >> Did get some things weeded, but decided against moving plants in this
> >> >> heat...
> >> >>
> >> >> What did everyone else do?
> >> >>
> >> >> Donna
> >> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp TX
> > zone 8A
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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