Re: Perennials--where are you?

Hello Kelly,
    I think there is something special about sowing and germinating your own
seed. I am out here every spring, long before anything is really due up,
watching for little green noses to appear. Almost like pacing the floor at
the maternity ward when my sons were born. They did not have little green
noses, though.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Hi Gene,
> Being rather a novice, I've spent most of this season planting new
> perennials, then moving them.  Seems I haven't quite figured out the
> relationship between the shade trees, structures, the sun, and earth's
> rotation.  In the winter, I decided the bed in my front yard was sunny, in
> the back, shady.  WRONG!  Almost the complete opposite.  So back and forth
I
> go.
> It is fun to learn though.  Gardening is the first thing I think
> I've ever done that if I wasn't really good at it right from the start,
I'd
> quit.  Not only have I not quit, but do believe I'm addicted.  There are
> over a hundred different species in beds that completely circle the house,
> around the garage, and two or three other beds throughout the yard.  I had
a
> choir director in high school that said, "If you're going to make a
mistake,
> make it loud."  Any and all mistakes I've made thus far, they're right out
> there for all the neighbors to see.
> Must not be doing to badly, though.  The neighbors have all been
> very complementary, and rather shocked (because we don't even own the
home,
> just rent.)
> It's kinda funny, all the money and care I've spent on the
> perennials, I think I'm enjoying the zinnias and the Shirley Poppies I
> planted from seed more than anything right now.  Go figure.
> It was nice to hear from you and everyone else who has responded to
> my posting.
> Happy 4th!
> Kelly in Eastern Kansas

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