Re: An impromptu swap....A very nice surprise

I have the sanguinium (sp?), the Biokovo and the Claridge Druce.
Johnson's Blue can't handle the heat down here as I found out the hard
way. Pity.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan
Sent: 5/2/2004 9:44:26 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] An impromptu swap....A very nice surprise

> It is wonderful!  I have the Johnson's Blue perennial geraniums, so I can
> tell by the leaf it is a different variety.  I can hardly wait until they
> bloom so I can see what they look like!  That will be another very nice
> surprise. :>)
> 
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:03 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] An impromptu swap....A very nice surprise
> 
> Oh Bonnie - isn't that wonderful? Gotta love gardeners. A lovely surpise
> indeed! I love my perennial geraniums, I know you will too!
> 
> 
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan
> Sent: 5/1/2004 11:36:36 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] An impromptu swap....A very nice surprise
> 
> > Between rainstorms, I was determined to get some of the peonies planted or
> > at least get enough bed dug for them that I could do them Sunday or Monday
> > morning whenever the weather gave me a break.  
> > 
> > As I was clearing out the grass and tossing the turf in the wheelbarrow
> for
> > the compost heap, I noticed a car stop at the end of the driveway.  The
> > gentleman called to me and his wife shyly asked what that yellow flower at
> > the end of the bed was.  I told her that it was basket of gold alyssum and
> > told her if she came by a little later, I'd have a start potted up for
> her.
> > (It was no big deal as there were two or three starts that had escaped the
> > bed and needed to be removed anyway, so I set the newly potted starts at
> the
> > end of the drive for their new owner.)  
> > 
> > It wasn't long that I had to start supper.  Just as we finished dinner
> > thunder announced a need to move all the gardening gear back into cover,
> so
> > I dashed out to grab the wheel barrow, shovel and fork, but there was
> > something new there.  There was a plant in a plastic margarine tub.  I
> think
> > it looks like a type of perennial geranium by its leaves, but I'm not
> sure.
> > It was certainly a lovely surprise!  I think I'll put it in my new West
> bed.
> > :>D
> > 
> > BTW, the storm--it was a real "toad floater" as Pam calls them!  
> > 
> > Blessings,
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> > Of Cersgarden@aol.com
> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 11:30 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] First sighting
> > 
> > In a message dated 5/1/04 7:35:29 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> > 
> > << Well, yes, we've had frosts, too.  But spring includes frosts, doesn't
> > it? 
> > >>
> > 
> > Certainly, just thought you may be interested.
> >     Ceres
> > 
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