wedding bouquet

> I understand you wanting Lily of the Valley in your bridal bouquet.

I desperately wanted poppies and lemon leaves in my bouquet.  The florist
thought I was nuts.
Anyone remember where this comes from?

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bermuda grass wars


> Dry shade is what my Mom used to keep Lily of the Valley in check, so
you're
> right, that that may be part of your problem.
>
> I understand you wanting Lily of the Valley in your bridal bouquet.
> Sometimes things just have strong memories. We tried to find daisies in
> August for mine, too. My Mom and sister just about went nuts.
>
> Chinese Lantern overcomes Tansy? Yikes! Maybe I don't want to try again.
The
> tansy even survived in the ditch outside our fence, where the road
> department guys would cut it to bare dirt ever now and then.
>
> I don't even want to think of what I still have to plant. Some of it's
been
> in purgatory for a couple of years, but I don't have new beds dug, and
it's
> still hot and humid as all get-out. Even my husband is finding it too
warm,
> and he wears sweat pants if I have the A/C on.
>
> And the mosquitoes are about to carry us off - a human case of West Nile
was
> found just a few miles south of us.
>
> Daryl
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 6:58 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Bermuda grass wars
>
>
> > Believe it or not, I've had a hard time getting lily-of-the-valley going
> for
> > me too.  I finally have a decent stand after 10 years.  Perhaps I have
> mine
> > in too deep a shade and in an area that is on the dry side being
overhung
> by
> > huge trees and the front porch steps.  It is my favorite fragrant flower
> to
> > the point I wanted them for my wedding bouquet some 34 years ago.  Of
> > course, it is impossible to find them in August in the mid-west! LOL!!!
I
> > had to settle for having some rayon substitutes made (allergic to silk)
> and
> > spraying a perfume that smelled like lily-of-the-valley on it.  On the
> > positive side, my bouquet never wilted!
> >
> > I hadn't remembered mother's Chinese lanterns having runners and taking
> off
> > everywhere either, but from my personal experience now, they most
> certainly
> > RUN!!!  I keep pulling them out of my tansy and folks say tansy takes
over
> > the world!  My poor tansy is just a small clump this year because of the
> > encroaching Chinese Lanterns.  I hope to remove enough runners from the
> area
> > or find a new area to put my tansy so I can have a better, healthier
stand
> > next year.
> >
> > We had a linden tree die this spring and there is a 1' deep hole where
the
> > tree used to be.  I think I'm going to put an oval lasagna bed centered
> over
> > that hole and with the edges of the oval just at the drip line of the
> tulip
> > tree on the right and the plum tree on the left.  The area would have
> > afternoon/evening sun and morning shade there.  I've got a number of
> plants
> > I want to get into the ground before this fall is over and a number of
> > others I need to divide next spring, I'm sure!  Despite all the flats of
> > plants I took into work this year, there will be more next spring.  :>)
>
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