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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Montana Shady Garden

I was thrilled to see this list come through on NEW-LIST and the warm
welcome from the listowner made me want to introduce myself right away,
though--after seven years of experience on the Internet, I usually lurk a
while first.

July 1, my sweetie bought two houses side by side in the oldest part of our
town; I live in the big brick one next to a park and he shares the courtyard
with me in a small pink stucco house.  His was built in 1884 and mine in
1887 and the courtyard is enclosed by a twelve foot stone fence and the yard
filled with old lilacs and big trees.  Between my house and the park is
almost a hole, where a small house had been and it is full of creeping ivy
and shade trees.  A gardening challenge--and especially here in Helena,
Montana, where spring may not bother to come until the first of June.

I've always been an ardent organic gardener and have made plans to use the
long-unused community gardens two blocks away at a senior citizen housing
complex (and hopefully get some seniors involved, too) this spring.  My
friend, Ann and I, will do our starts next month at her house (she works for
a local nursery, too); we always plant a lot of herbs.

I've put over 200 bulbs around the two houses and have been working on two
stone fences within the shady area by the park, as well as having had a
contractor I know dump about seven yards of fill dirt in there, which I
still need to rake in.

I'm a single mom of two boys, 11 and 8, and my sweetie, neighbor and
landlord, has three children, two girls and a boy.  Perhaps it's good that
spring comes so late here so we can ski a lot, which I did today--though
it's been so warm here of late that I put in some bulbs my mother gave me at
Christmas on New Year's Day.

I have a home-based business doing web sites; I have over seventy web sites
right now.  Aside from being able to ski in the middle of the week, it's
great for someone who also loves to garden, as I get to enjoy the fruits of
my labor all day.

I welcome any suggestions and advice anyone might have.  The Michigan Bulb
catalogue as arrived and I'm sure the other gardening catalogues will
soon...

Kathleen
Internet Navigating--"Teaching Tomorrow's Technology Today"
http://www.lehnherr.com/kathleen
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