Re: visitor from Tasmania
- Subject: Re: visitor from Tasmania
- From: J* D*
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
My 2 cents on visiting LA bot gardens...
The UCLA bot garden ("Mildred Mathias") might have a
collection that's more unusual to the Tasmanian eye.
Descanso has a rather temperate collection (Camellia
collection, etc.). Descanso's advantage is the old
oaks and setting at the base of the mtns.
--- Gay Klok <gklok@trump.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> Dear medit-planters
> How kind you all are, the net continues to amaze me
> daily. Mind you, we all
> know that medit-plants is the top email garden
> group, especially me. After
> all, my country garden is an example of a cool
> temperate garden and the town
> garden is only semi-medit.
> I owe a good deal of gratitude to Sean. When I
> first got hooked up to the
> Net, after the first few weeks, I could not
> understand what the hype was all
> about . Then one lucky day, I stumbled into Sean
> [somewhere? I've
> forgotten] and he asked me if I would be interested
> in a new email group he
> was in the middle of creating. So much water under
> the bridge since then and
> so much learnt. Not only about plants and methods
> of gardening but also
> protocol and good manners. One of the biggest
> lessons learnt was that the
> Net has no bias - no discrimination with sex, colour
> or age
> This 64 year old grandmother and frustrated writer
> owes so much to this
> group. I can now write and even get paid a little
> bit, boredom may fly out
> of the window.
> I apparently have not learnt to stick to the
> subject. A general thanks to
> you who have written showing interest.
> Unfortunately, we are only in LA for
> two days - arrive 27th June, depart 29th June. I
> hope to visit the
> Arboretum, Descanso and Huntington. That should be
> enough for Kees to start
> dragging his heels!
> Your responses has made me wish for a longer visit
> to the United States some
> day - she will be back but for now I must go and buy
> my new undies.
> Our trip - Leaving Australia on the 27th May -
> Bombay [son living there at the
> moment] - Paris for 3 days - Kees' family,
> Netherlands - Scotland for new non
> medit-plant seeds from John Mattingley at Clune
> House and other Scottish wild
> gardens - New York - Los Angeles - Hawaii - Home
> [what will the gardens look
> like. Probably bad enough to puncture me]
> Will the late Cornus be in flower at the end of
> June? Gay
>
> Gay Klok Tasmania
> Latest article: “It was stupid of us to think that
> at our age [52 and 62] we were able to have such
> an exciting garden adventure, it would be best to
> give up now and face reality”"
>
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/tasmanian_gardening
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/3411
> http://members.tripod.com/~klok/WRINKLY_.HTM
>
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