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Re: [SG] another Welcome

> We would all appreciate hearing a short bio about you and your garden.
> Just jump right in and let us hear from you.

Sherryl welcomed me to the list and asked that I write a short bio...
here goes:

I live just outside Washington DC and my lot backs right up to Rock
Creek Park - which has advantages (nice view, no neighbors in the back,
Pileated Woodpecker in residence,etc) and disadvantages(deer!).

Because I hate mowing lawn, I started planting perenniels, azaleas, etc
until I had no front lawn, just garden. Then a couple of years ago my
daughter and I were shopping at Bridgewood Gardens...where they had not
only the usual 1, 2 gal. hostas they also had mature hostas! We were
blown away not having known what mature hosta could look like....nothing
like a 1 year old, 1 gal version.  We have been addicted to hosta ever
since. This year I took out a couple azeleas so I could add a walk
through my front garden....AND put in more hostas. (I have a couple
pictures of some of my hosta at:
http://www.recgov.org/r&w/garden/links/plants/garden.htm).
I haven't had any formal training in gardening...just 'trowel and
error', a lot of reading and observing.

I have been on the gardens list and have seen some familiar names from
there, as well as some from the old hosta list.

I work at the National Institutes of Health where last year I started
the NIH Garden Club - it was strange they had every other kind of club,
but no garden club....so now we do!

I have three daughters, one got the gardening bug as soon as she owned a
house, the second daughter caught the gardening bug it when she moved
into a shared rental house and has transformed the outside....and we are
waiting for the youngest to get some land where I expect to see more
gardening going on...it is in the genes...my father is always planting
"just a few more' trees, plants, etc. He ALWAYS has room for more...and
I understand how that works.

If I was 20 again, I would go into a career related to gardening and
would be in heaven...may be not rich, but happy!

Karen in MD
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