Re: Chicago Trip

I am glad you enjoyed Chicago... good thing you made
it home before this heat wave...

CNG isn't about display gardens (although they promote
that)- What I go there for is to check out newer
plants to see their habit and flowers etc. They have a
variety of things that grow here and are little
known.(at least to me) I personally think they do more
with the research end rather than the display end. Of
course, it is the wrong time to go there- ending of
the spring stuff and the summer stuff isn't quite
ready yet.

So what garden centers did they take you too? I don't
know Trudi.

Sorry bunnies took advantage of you not being
there....

Donna

--- Cersgarden@aol.com wrote:

> I had a great Chicago experience.   We toured 10
> private gardens, Chicago 
> Botanical Gardens & Morton Arboretum as well as 3
> garden centers.   I was 
> disappointed in the CBG but the gardens may have
> been in betwn seasons.   The MA was 
> unbelievable particularly the children's garden.
>      The best garden was Trudi Temples which was
> misspelled on my pretour 
> letter making it Semple.   Donna or Chris do you
> know her?   She started the 
> markets and she has a book out on her garden.   She
> is originally from Germany and 
> her home where she has lived some 30 yrs looks like
> a photo from Germany.
>      I believe the Chicago (Naperville to be exact)
> were a bit ahead of our 
> gardens here.   I came home to a garden that was
> wild!   We had rain & warmth 
> which was perfect conditions for run away plants.  
> Also, lost more plants to 
> rabbits.   My new chocolate Rogersia has nothing
> above the soil and as does a 
> new Geranium.   The Echinacea 'Razzmatazz' has
> little left.   My roses are all 
> pruned even with wire baskets around them as the
> baby rabbits are able to 
> crawl inside.
>      I now must keep my nose to the grindstone as
> have a garden club on the 
> 15, 17th MGs pretour which is all the MGs working
> the tour and the 24th the big 
> tour.   Just hope my knee makes it.   I am now
> taking therapy 2 days a wk 
> with the hope of strengthen it and perhaps to avoid
> surgery.
>      Ceres
> 
>
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