Re: [SG] Welcome

Sherryl

thank you again for the warm welcome,  and I am honored to be a member of
this group.
on a personal note let me say that I am 57 yrs old, married (husband James)
  one son deceased.  We lost him 11 years ago,  he was 23 yrs old.  my
oldest son is married with 2 children (girls) and I have an outstanding
daughter-in-law.   my son is in the military,   since right out of high
school.  they now live in VA.

with that said,   lets get right to gardening.  my favorite subject  (with
the exception of my grandchildren)

my interest in gardening began shortly after loosing my youngest son.  my
true and faithful friend felt that I need an interest  "and so I did"  so
all the credit goes to her.  she didn't know that she was  creating a
monster.
our property is about 400 ft.  frontage and probable 100 ft deep.  there is
a rental house located on the property.   when we first built our home,  I
really had no interest in gardening.   I worked outside the home and was
trying to raise a family and didn't have a lot of spare time.   we have 9
large oak trees,  3 pecan,  1 apple,  and a couple of trees that I can't
name  (this is in my yard)   we had some shrubs that were a lost cause,  so
the first thing I did was rip  those out and replace them with Azaleas.  it
took about 50 Azaleas to replace.  then we built raised beds with landscape
timber around 4 of the oaks, and put in Azaleas.
from there it became an obsession.  I would zero in on one thing each year.
  it's like I couldn't enough.  some of these I've only got one item,  but
a lot of them I have oodles.   friends give me cuttings  and we exchange
plants, seeds  with each other.  if I have something   I divide with
friends and relatives and neighbors
It's the only way to live.    I love it.

a list of some of the things that are located in my yard
crepe myrtle,  red bud trees,  dogwood,  wild honeysuckle,  tame
honeysuckle,  snowball,  rose of sharon,  camellia,  gardenia,  flowering
almond,  mock orange,  lilac,  forsythia,  hawthorn,  (I plant the
forsythia and hawthorn together.  they bloom at the same time and the pink
of the hawthorn and the yellow are great together)   butterfly bush,
weigela,  oak leaf hydrangea  (they grow wild in the woods here in
Mississippi)   hydrangea  (bought 2 new ones this year   1- lacecap and 1
kaleidoscope)  one year I was into  clematis  so far I have 6 .    roses,
I'm not much on roses   they require so much attention and care,   the ones
that I do have are the old timey ones.   back in the mid 60's,  a co-worker
gave me a cutting of a rose and I've planted it in several different
locations.  it's a running rose and has a soft pink bloom,  then I ordered
a special from Park  there were 3 pink and 3 white.  I also have a deep
pink that I got at my husbands  grandparents old home place,   the house is
over 100 years old     I don't know how old the rose is,  but it's
beautiful and has a wonderful fragrance .
on a smaller scale,   I have daylilies (one year I went nuts)  iris,  calla
lily,  red hot pokers,  dahlias,  hollyhock,  painted daisy,  shasta daisy,
 coreopis, black eyed susan,  blanket flowers,  verbenia,  tall  phlox,
wild phlox,  purple cone flowers,  pineapple sage,  four o'clocks,  banana
trees,  bleeding hearts,  astilbe,  hostas, (but not a lot)  cyclamen,  2
peony  (that I've had for about 3 yrs now and it doesn't  do squat for me)
 hibiscus,  pampas grass,  cannas,  amaryllis,  mini amaryllis,  yucca,
poppy,  columbine,  mums,  blue wisteria, (grows wild in MS.)   I've go
daffodils everywhere,  in the early spring it's a sea of yellow here with
the daffodils and the forsythia being the first things to show their faces.
I've go other things,   but can't tell you what they are, because people
have given me things that they didn't or couldn't name.   and then I do the
annual thing every year.   I plant annuals in anything that will hold
potting soil.

Sherryl  I hope I haven't talked your ear off.   I hope you will look over
any and all typo's  since I've always been a lousy speller,  all who know
me just ignore my mistakes.
I hope to be able to contribute something to the group if only friendship.
I haven't been gardening for that long and still learning.   that's what I
hope to gain as a member    "knowledge"   I know a little, but what little
I know you could pack in a thimble.    I love gardening.   It filled a void
and gave me something when I lost my son.   gardening soothes my soul and
brings me closer to my Lord and savior and I hope that I haven't offended
you by mentioned  my Lord.

thank you and I have enjoyed talking to you

Donna in Fulton, Ms.   zone 7
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