Re: Montrose Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #184

In a message dated 10/25/02 9:28:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
OXFORDWALT@aol.com writes:


> The bus pulled up, we departed and Nancy greeted us on the front porch never 
> 
> to be seen again. This was a paid tour.  I'm not sure what I expected 
> except 
> a garden I'd seen on TV and how it transposed into reality and a "Great 
> Garden" . That was the expectations. It was late June and although the 
> gravel 
> paths were there, so were alot of weedy re -seedeed plants.  I don't 
> remember..Perilla frutescens? Wild violets. 


Well, Walter, that must have been one heckuva disappointment.  I am sure it 
was at least five years ago when I was there and Nancy had a partner, a young 
man.  They were sharing the design and testing plants that would do well in 
the Carolinas.  There were, maybe, some huge salvias of a sort we cannot grow 
and the Perovskia larger than I have seen it here in New York.  It was late 
summer or early fall. Lots of huge plants, probably asters as well.

I would say that if the the tour is a paid one, some effort to give you your 
money's worth should be made.  Since all that gravel was about, could it be 
an experimentation in xeric gardening?

I have been visiting gardens for years and when the host accepts money from 
each visitor you can understand that time is taken from their work and 
something must support show gardens.  If I were in your shoes, I should also 
be a bit indignant.  I think some plants were being sold when I was there and 
that we were not charged admittance.  As your trip was recent, yours will be 
the better description.  

Walter, you cannot mean you are occasionally tired of looking at hostas? <VBG>


Claire Peplowski
NYS z4  

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