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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Montana Shady Garden

Welcome, Kathleen!  You sound like a lucky person to have such a nice
challenge ahead with the house/landscaping projects you have in mind and
down the street.  Hope you enjoy this group.  Joann Stewart Zone 7
Watkinsville, Georgia

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> From: Kathleen Ely <kathleen@IXI.NET>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Montana Shady Garden
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 8:08 PM
>
> 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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