Re: Montrose Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #184

Well, Walter, that is disappointing.  I wonder why, if the garden is
not in good shape, she is permitting tours at all?  Still, I would
like to see it, if for nothing more than old times sake - I did love
the Montrose Nursery catalog.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: OXFORDWALT@aol.com
> > 
> > Claire, I guess no one else has been their. 
> I saw Nancy Goodwin several times on (?) the Victory Garden and
also Erica 
> Glasener's Gardener's Diary.  Seemed nice and thought I might like
to go 
> their one day. The Hosta convention was in Raleigh last year and
Montose was 
> on the list of place we were to visit. Hallelujah!  A place without
hosta and 
> a garden I wanted to visit.
> 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. Anyhow, the perennials
looked 
> qite unkempt, wild & wooly and just nothing special.  Perhaps I
didn't 
> understand the style; perhaps Nancy is slowing down and not able to
keep up 
> the property.  Disappointed as I didn't learne anything ...except
meaybe "one 
> will have certain unmet expectations.
> Walter in Bucks County, Pa      
> 
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