Accessible Gardening: More Disabled Gardeners, Laughing with Joy ..., 0 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
Sorry to hear about your technical difficulties, Vickie. There was a time I thought sorting out a computer/tech problem was fun and challenging. Now, I just consider it a pain in the derriere.
Hopefully, black Christmas ornaments are just this year’s fad. I know black weddings were in vogue a few years ago. I couldn’t keep “black” flowers in the Guy Garden. They were coveted by would-be brides. (Most of the so-called “black” flowers are actually dark burgundy or something like that.)

Jacki, I will be making many new entries to Amargia’s “have” trading list over the next two weeks. If you haven’t seen anything you would like to have by the time I’m done, I’ll make arrangements to send you postage for the AV’s. Heaven forbid there be a plant my DW doesn’t possess. :-) (Compulsive plant collecting, yet another mark of the out-of-control chlorophyll addict.)

I DO miss Amargia’s “proxy” gardeners. Those among us who were so physically limited they could not turn a spade. We’ve lost three in the last year and a half. We grew dependent on them to do the work like creating the trade list, keeping up a garden journal and writing blog post. It freed the others up to do the mule work. I think I need to start visiting nursing homes to look for new recruits. I never have problems spotting the serious gardeners among old southern men and women. They are the ones who wear the interesting hats, especially the women. :-) Jim

Photo: The flowers (cones) of this year's Pine cone ginger match the unusual size of the plants themselves. Wonderful scent.