Re: Re: hi again

We're glad you're ok girl - we were wondering. I have to train my gourd
vines around the arches (yes, I love them too) although two of them have
escaped into the overhanging hackberry trees. Looks interesting - will
have to get a picture for sure for Donna to post. Glad to have you back
indeed!!


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Libby Valentine" <L_Valentine@adelphia.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:46:54 -0400

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm finally back - even have my very own email account now (I know it
>doesn't seem like much but I've only had work email prior to this, and a
>yahoo account for temporary connection but it doesn't have much space - hey,
>for free what more could I ask?).  And my husband decided to go for the
>cable modem a few weeks ago which I have to admit is great - the connection
>speed is very nice.
>
>Summer has just whizzed by.  How did it get to be October? (let alone
>2003...)  We've had an incredible amount of rain all summer, after 9 years
>of drought, so it's been interesting to see what is thriving with the
>moisture and what really prefers it drier.  The lawn never went dormant at
>all.  I finished planting half of my new bed (on a slope I thought was
>dangerous to mow):  newspaper-and-mulched it and put in some different kinds
>of salvias and other plants for the butterflies and hummingbirds, and also 3
>sapphireberries, which came up on this list probably 3 years ago.  Took me
>that long to find them.  I will look up the true names and write again, but
>I am really excited to be back so I want to send this now!!  I had an oval
>bed with a goumi, a russian mt. ash, and a pussy willow in it, plus various
>perennials, and I made that the small side of the trapezoid and connected it
>to 2 little cleveland pears (I know, I know, but at least they're not
>Bradfords) above and outside the corners of the oval bed, so it's all one
>bed now.  I still have about 1/3 to plan and plant, but I am happy to have
>accomplished what I did.
>
>Right here the most damage from Isabel was 4 of the 7 large Bradford pears
>lining our across-the-street neighbor's driveway came down - 3 snapped, one
>uprooted - gave the whole neighborhood something to do the next day, when
>there was still warm water left in the water heater for showers after!  Lost
>several relatively young willows in the neighborhood, and then there were a
>number of big trees down on some of the wooded roads in the area.  All in
>all, very fortunate.
>
>Question on vines for you all - I planted a hops vine (humulus) and it's
>growing very well when the deer don't browse it.  I planted it at the base
>of an arch (to which someone here pointed me last year, from Lee Valley
>Tools - whoever it was, thanks!), and it has grown up to the top of the arch
>nicely, but it also keeps trying to spread, well, wherever it can, including
>into midair.  Is there a trick to training vines or is it simple persistence
>of bringing back the errant tendrils and wrapping them on the arbor?  Also,
>do I cut this back?
>
>My mom gave me a heather collection (6 varieties) from White Flower Farm
>this summer.  They are all still very small, but I'm hoping most of them
>will survive the winter and then I'll have some input on what will survive a
>normal summer here.  If there is such a thing!
>
>Jesse, I am so glad to hear Fizick has rejoined the ranks.  I told my three
>about him and they've all been sending good kitty wishes his way.
>
>Thank you all for being out there, this is a wonderful community and I am
>glad to be back as a hopefully more active part of it again.
>
>Libby
>
>Maryland zone 6
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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