RE: Jesse Bell
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: Jesse Bell
  • From: &* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 22:57:46 -0400
Hi Donna, 

You've always been one of the most dedicated, hard-working, and devoted people I know. I think of you every time the wind catches the chimes you sent me.

Kitty

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Donna
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:30 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
> 
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