New to you all
- Subject: New to you all
- From: "* <b*@cot.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 20:52:52 MST
Good Evening...I am fairly new to the iris list...and I have been, as you
all say, lurking. I live between MT. Shasta and Klamath Falls on Hwy 97,
Still on the California side. This is the first time I have moved in my 62
years, used to live in Loomis. Here we have snow and our zone is 6. I read
the Sunset Garden Book and they had us listed as zone 1...thats Alaska! I
left many of my plants at the old home place because of that. I did get
brave and plant 160 iris and now I have put in some roses and of course, the
rock garden plants. I love the iris, from the bearded to the least little
species. Right now we are covered with snow. This is hopefully the last snow
we will get this year. I am not a snow person. We raise mammoth spotted
donkeys, walking horses and Boston Terriers too.
Our farm is bounded on all sides by BLM land so no one will ever build
around us. We have 200 ft. Ponderosa Pines all around us and some Juniper
trees too. It is a wonderful place to live...If Mt. Shasta doesn't try to
outdo Mt. St. Helens. In the greenhouse I grow begonias and ferns, if I
didn't have the greenhouse I would go stircrazy with all the snow and no
gardening. I just wanted you all to know that I really enjoy every note that
comes my way.
Thanks again for the pleasure you all bring.
Cynthia
Golden Hills Nursery (916)398-4203
Begonias, Ferns and perennials
Macdoel, Ca. 96058 Zone 6
"The love of gardening is a seed that once sowed never dies"
Gertrude Jekyll
