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    B. Peter Brandt-Sorheim, AASN, BA, M Div, RN
    11 Conkey Street
    Mt. Morris, NY 14510-1207
    <TALLSCAPES@AOL.COM>

    member:  the Western New York Hosta Society
                   the American Hosta Society
                   the Finger Lakes Daylily Society
                   the American Hemerocallis Society
                   the North American Lily Society
                   Master Gardener (Cornell Cooperative Extension)

    ...just a farm kid off the southern Minnesota prairie who finds himself
    living at the western end of the New York Finger Lakes region, in a
    protected gully on the sunnyside of the Genesee River Valley (that thumb
    of USDA zone 6 that extends downward from the underbelly of Lake Ontario).

    Accustomed to the rich loam soil of the old farmsted,it is necessary to
make
    do with the several soil types in this bulldozed-formerly-vinyard
site...some
    very sandy, some rich woodland, some heavy clay..seeking out publicly
available
    compost to enrich the (too) many flowerbeds...dailylies, true lilies,
ferns, hostas,
    peonies...on a narrow 50' x 200' lot within the village (no deer yet...
the bane of
    most gardens here). With few trees on the lot, the shadow of the house
    and garage (both facing northeast) must provide any perpetual or partday
shade.
    The hill behind and to the northwest of the lot is wooded and does provide
    late afternoon protection from direct sun to some beds.

    This is my fourth year of highly active gardening. This year daylily
seedlings
    of my own crosses  may bloom. The bright half day sun areas provide an
    interesting mix of sun-loving and shade-tolerating plant.  This year I am
trying
    to raise hostas from seed and am just developing an interest in ferns.

    I am a half breed (German/Norwegian...can read German and Spanish),
    married to Vera (part Russian/part Gypsy, who  grew up in Jundiai, Sao
    Paulo, Brazil...speaks Russian and Portugese), have no children but do
    have six garden patrol cats:  TUZIC,  TCHAIKA, PUSHKIN, MARIO NINJA,
    CHUCKIE NORRIS, and the very remarkable but addled
                CINNABAR GARCIA-LOPEZ-McDUFF de las TAVERNAS.

   Moles, mice, and voles do not last long here though a fat wood chuck defied
   them last year...I ran up a fat village water bill trying to flush him out.
I work
   full-time evenings at a nursing home in Rochester and spend too much time
   on this computer.  With a tummy that precludes much bending I prefer tall
   flowerscapes that come up to meet me and do a lot of crawling about weeding
   from patio block pathways...reaching into beds designed for my short arms.
   It seems more interesting to weed flower beds than to mow grass/lawn.
   Anything else you want to know...just ask.  Peter
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