Fw: Greeting From Vermont!

How about another greeting from Vermont.

I am Roy Dales, my wife and I moved to Milton, VT (Zone 3 or 4 depending of
how you look at the map) almost five years ago to the day, originally
having hailed from St. Louis, MO.

We have a house in the woods (excepts the skirt of the house) on ten maple
seedling invested acres.  The area has a lot of natual globe flowers, jack
in the pulpits, trilium, and dicentra.  My main obession are hosta plants
having a collection of 400+ varities.  I built a indoor - 1000 watt -
greenhouse to help me throught the winter months.  Also enjoy skiing.

I was actually pleasantly surprised at the growing climate having moved
from Missouri where everything dried up during August and July.  Having ten
acres is great but I have yet to find out how not to try new plants.  All
suggestions will be welcome.  In fact I guess my main reason for joining is
to find out about growing different, new and unusual perrenials,shrubs,
trees, and vines.

We also have a 3/4 acre pond that is sixteen feet deep, stocked with trout
and some Missouri bass.  It also has many shallow areas that I have planted
with various bog plants - hardy water lillies and I hope what are to be
considered hardy louisiana irses. 
Suggestions about bog and or water plants would be appreciate.

I am quite proud of what I have done with my garden in only five years. 
Sorry about the lack of humilty.  Anyway I am starting to read about
tractors.  Does that tell you anything about my future gardening plans.

Besides hosta, I have quite a few of the following - various ground covers
I am trying - ajuga, lamium, dead nettle, edimedium, and tiarellas will be
a new addition this year.  I have a real nice garden bed that contains all
green hosts with silver beacon lamium planted underneat.  This year I am
going to put in all blue hosta garden with a golden color lamium.

Anyway - back to perrenials - daylillies, sedum, lilium, astbles, iris -
siberian and japanese - delepiums, peonies (single bloom only.  I will
probably remember what I have forgotten when it start coming up this
spring.  Every fall I plant at least 500 crocuses and daffodills.

I will quite rambling - if you have read this far you are probably tired of
me by now anyway.

I guess I like all kinds of plants - even the invasive type.

Roy
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