Re: Bed preparation/Doug Ruhren

Marge,
     Yes, I am definitely going to the workshop Saturday.  There are at
least 11 people signed up, so it is a go.  They have had trouble getting
enough people to take the gardening classes this summer.   I personally
think that the gardeners in this area are NUTS to pass up an opportunity to
learn from Doug for just $20. for garden members!!  We have marked off the
enlarged bed, done the Round-Up, and have lightly tilled the top surface.
My job now is to fork, as you told about in your article.  We have alot of
organic stuff in the back yard that we are going to use--rotted leaves and
grass, mainly.  Marge, the very first class I took with Doug was a workshop
on Plants With Winter Interest and he showed 150 slides!!  Many of the
pictures were from his own garden.  I asked him what he liked to grow in his
own garden and he said the little forgotten plants.  He also told me that
the three most important things at the Stowe Botanical Garden were COLOR,
COLOR, AND COLOR--but he thinks texture and foliage is more important in
home gardens.  He is a dear person and if you ever can come down here, you
must and we will meet and go through the garden together.  There is a lovely
Bed and Breakfast here in Belmont--a restored home of one of the textile
barons of the last century.  You would love our sweet little town.
Lynn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: Bed preparation/Doug Ruhren


> You made an excellent decision there, Lynn...think you would look
> hard to find another as good to "sit at feet" of.  Boy, would I like
> to attend that workshop, but it is not in the cards.  If you go, post
> a report, will you?
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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> > From: Lynn Lamb <lynnlamb@carolina.rr.com>
> >
> > Marge...I KNOW!!  When I went to his 'Plants for Winter Interest'
> the first
> > year he was here, he showed 113 slides of plants and when he talked
> I was
> > entranced.  He was wonderful!  Then and there I decided to make him
> my
> > friend.  I have given him heirloom rose clippings to root and this
> summer he
> > came to my house to dig heirloom iris rhizomes for the garden.  He
> is so
> > personable and a vertible 'walking encyclopedia' (his nickname
> among the
> > staff at Stowe Garden).  I was absolutely thrilled to 'sit at his
> feet', so
> > to say.  On Sept. 7th. he is giving a workshop on shade gardening
> and I am
> > taking that.  You should come, Marge!
>
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