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- Subject: Re: Jesse Bell
- From: B* T* <2*@rewrite.hort.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 18:06:56 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Hi folks, good to hear from everyone. Was never super active on the list but kinda miss it (and am not on Facebooks etc). Here in northern Calif our drought finally broke last winter with almost 2X normal rainfall. Really impressive to see what a little water will do for the plants! The wildflowers at my place were absolutely spectacular this year and has revived my interest in encouraging them and protecting them. Am cleaning up and revamping my small "main" garden after doing very little the past few years due to Drought and Life. Have many scented leaf herby plants which take a fair amount of dryness, and again was so startling to see how much they respond to "normal" winter moisture. A real winner has been Jerusalem sage (Phlomis) which has large bright yellow flowers in May, just finishing now, but even larger and with new plant growth this spring. Encouraging to see it could tolerate both the drought and the rain. Like many of you I am trying to curtail my buying habits, am cultivating only this one bed, and have plans to put in a few drought tolerant plants / native shrubs this fall. Best to everyone, Barbara Tandy, Grass Valley CA -----Original Message----- >From: Donna <a2bd42281@rewrite.hort.net> >Sent: May 31, 2017 5:30 PM >To: gardenchat@hort.net >Subject: Re: [CHAT] Jesse Bell > >I'm still around but not as much as I used to be. Guess I'm getting old. I have downsized the gardening. No time and the weeds keep taking over. I'm still working crazy amount of hours plus caring for elder family members and their homes as well. All the kids are either getting married, baby time, new houses and a zillion places to be. > >Not complaining just not enough me time anymore. > > >Donna >Sent from my iPad > >> On May 31, 2017, at 5:45 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey <1002@rewrite.hort.net> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Kitty Morrissy" <1018@rewrite.hort.net> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 4:44:25 PM >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Jesse Bell >>> >>> Nice to see all of you are still on the list. It’s been years but I >>> think of all of you often. I hope Donna and Jim and some of the >>> others are still here. I left the list because I was just too busy >>> at the time for so many emails. Still busy, still having plant >>> sales, and trying to keep the garden up. Buying wayyyyyyyyyyyy too >>> many plants still. I swore not this year, but you should see the >>> list. Where to put them all? >> >> Hi Kitty! >> >> It's good to "see" you again! I've been cutting back on Facebook >> significantly. I mostly use it to post a few news stories that >> I think are interesting and to catch up on family news, but I'm using >> it for gardening-related things less and less these days. >> >> In true sisyphean fashion, I continue to plug away at hort.net. I'm >> trying a different approach this time. Maybe focus on one part instead >> of trying to do everything at once? :D >> >>> So what new acquisitions are all of you boasting? >> >> I think you saw my post on the perennials list. >> but I've acquired a *lot* more since then. This seems to be the >> year for really good sales, and I can't pass them up. >> >> For example, I just bought Asarum splendens in a one-gallon pot >> literally overflowing (it's about two feet wide) for only $9. >> >> OK, I've now linked to the real-time document I keep every year for my >> plants: >> >> http://www.mallorn.com/~lindsey/2017.txt >> >> I try to enter every plant as I buy them (location, purchase date, size), >> then add comments about cultural requirements. Finally, I put an 'x' by >> the name and the location it was planted if it's in the ground already. >> >> The big scary one for me this year is an awesome gift that I received: >> Acer japonicum 'Aureum'. It's a beautiful specimen, but it's also >> expensive and I'm afraid I'll pick the wrong spot and kill it. :) >> I'm not sure how well it will do in part-shade here. >> >> I have the rooftop vegetable garden planted and irrigated now, and >> I'm finishing up the irrigation through the rest of the yard. Some >> of it broke over the winter because I couldn't flush the system in >> time. >> >> I'm trying to make this the year that I "fix" the garden, so I'm >> spending a lot of time weeding and fixing areas that had become >> overgrown. The backyard almost looks decent again, and hopefully >> the front will be there soon. Then I'll do the hardscape to finish >> it off... >> >> What's everyone else up to? >> >> Chris >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the >> message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the >message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
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