Introduction

Hi Folks:

I am happy to become a part of this discussion group!! Thank you for your
welcomes!!!

My partner and I own and operate a very small perennial plant business not
far from the Bruce Peninsula (a very beautiful part of Ontario, Canada). A
lot of our American neighbours own cottages on the Bruce - that will give
you some indication of its beauty and attraction.

We left the corporate life-style in Toronto in 92 and set up business the
following year.

We specialize in hosta and shade-loving perennials. We live in a rather
beat-up century old farmhouse, milk snakes in the basement each spring, but
we have the most wonderful surroundings. A  hill in back of the house has
many locust trees, great fixers of nitrogen into the soil, and we are
slowly covering the hill in hosta beds offset by ferns, pulmonaria, and
other shade tolerant plants. Unfortunately weeds love the nitrogen rich
soil too so we have an ongoing battle.

We have many other flower beds scattered here and there. The old pit that
was used for boiling down the sap to maple syrup is now a hemercallis
specimen bed.

We call our place reality gardening - it is anything but park-like but it
is the way we like it!!

That's it for now

Diane Everest




Silk Purse Farm Perennials, Zone 5b, southwest of Owen Sound, Ontario,
Canada Web Site: http:silkpursefarm.on.ca
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