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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Welcome

(Wyn,  at the moment there are 187 subscribers to this list, and we are
allowed 2 posts per day.  Hopefully, all members will indicate their
location when posting to the robin.)

Hello!

Thanks for the welcome, Sherryl!

I'm a 45 year old woman, living in Stamford, CT, about 10 miles from Long
Island Sound.  We're on the piece of southwestern Connecticut that
juts into New York State.  I think that makes me Zone 5.  We have 2 acres,
much of it in grass, surrounding a 1930 Tudor and with wooded areas
around the perimeter.  We're on a hillside, but the center strip of our lot
is fairly level.  My chief challenge relates to the deer, although
at least 3 rabbits and a woodchuck and a possum share our property.   (I
can't blame anything on the possum yet, but would be inrerested in
knowing what if anything they eat.)  Skunks also wander in from time to
time.  (My elderly b&w Newfoundland seems to think they might be her
long lost littermates!)

While several of my beds/borders are in partial to full sun, there are
several areas I'd love to do more with (on the east side of the house,
and shaded by a huge red maple).   This summer, the local Frank's Nursery
was selling azaleas in 1 gallon containers for $3 each.  I went daily
for 4 days, and ended up with about 80 plants, which are now on the wooded
lawn-under-ash tree hillside above our house.  Many of them bloomed
in August, and the deer have done some damage.  I don't know if I got a
bargain or was crazy, yet -- or both!!

The local comment is that daylilies and hosta are deer candy and deer
salad.  Bobbex protects my daylilies (a collection begun about 9 years
ago with a bunch of seedlings from Gilbert Wild via WFF) as long as I
remember to apply it at the right time.

I am a member of my local garden club and will be attending the GCA
convention in Williamsburg this spring.

I have a nearly complete collection of back issues of Fine Gardening, and a
fair number of gardening books (most remaindered or picked up at
used book sales), including Hortus Third, if that would ever be useful to
someone.

I'm also on several Anglican listservs, one for Newfoundlands and the UKY
gardening one.  (My best humor comes from the main Anglican list!)
I'm waiting for the "delete" key on my keyboard to cry uncle.

How many members are there on the list?  How many posts per day?  Where are
people from?  How long has the list been in existence?  (I'll try
to just lurk for a while!)

Wyn Achenbaum
Stamford, CT
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