Re: Rain!!!

Yay on the new nursery!!   My favorite is in transition between owners, so
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

On 11/3/08, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI <
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>
> Rain at our house too. The forecast said scattered showers so I wasn't
> expecting much but we had several good downpours on Saturday. I forgot
> to look at the rain gauge though. Today of course will be sunny and nice
> but it's okay...it wasn't windy or cold and I enjoyed having some
> different weather. Went hiking in the drizzle on Sunday and it was
> great.
> I found a new nursery! One with lots of native plants no less. It is run
> by the county and has actually been around for many years, but when I
> visited about 15 years ago they only had a few straggly one-gallon pots
> of trees. Their mission was essentially to provide trees for windbreaks
> and erosion control. But in the last couple years someone quietly took
> an interest in them and they've greatly expanded to provide natives and
> other drought-tolerant plants for home gardeners. I bought seeds for
> wildflowers plus some penstemons, yucca, and a native Artemisia for my
> dry garden and I'll definitely be visiting again next spring. The guy I
> talked to is gamely trying to learn about all these plants, he doesn't
> know botanical names for hardly anything (at one point he asked me if I
> were in the trade) but he knows common names for all his stock at least
> and we had a good chat. Very nice, I might skip the yearly drive to
> Theodore Payne nursery.
> Husband is busy ripping out bushes along the house foundation. I still
> don't have a vision on what will go there but even naked it looks better
> already. The shrubs were shaded too much by the sycamores to look good
> and there was no way to keep the dead sycamore leaves groomed out of
> them. So far so good.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Theresa G.
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:26 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] Rain!!!
>
> it is pouring down rain here!  I might actually get  break from
> allergies and no more watering the garden 3 x per week : )
> Long day at work. Ordered pizza, drinking a beer, and sitting here
> finishing Xmas shopping and watching Rocky Horror Picture Show .
>
> Garlic, lettuce, radish, cilantro seeds are all coming up, and brocolli
> and peas are growing.
>
> Theresa
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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