Re:Happy New Year
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- Subject: Re:Happy New Year
- From: S* W*
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:51:40 -0000
Dear All,
It has been a pleasure listening in to all the chat and comments in this
group, and I find it facinating reading the descriptions of gardens in
places that I shall never see. It is rather like having access to the best
gardening magazine in the world.
Despite the wettest Christmas and New Year holiday I can remember, we did
get a few hours of sunshine on New Years Day. Just long enough for me to get
out with the secateurs and cut off the foliage on my Helleborus orientalis.
I got a real beauty 2 years ago, deepest wine red and I have just seen it
has 9 flower stems coming this year! It is one of the things I most love
about this time of year, that hint of promise for the coming season.
Whilst I envy those of you enjoying trpocal winters, and the Delphiniums in
Alaska sound drop dead gorgeous, on a clear sunny day in winter I wouldn't
swap my garden with anyone ( despite it being 99% stone and the other 1%
rock!). And I suspect we all feel the same.
So a Happy New Year to everyone and the best of everything in your gardens.
Regards,
Tracy Wilson. Cornwall. UK
P.S. My nomination for perennial of the year would be Rudbeckia sul.
'Goldsturm'. Slug-proof, wind-proof and likes stony gardens!
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