Northeast Gardening: Behind the Red Sox curtain..., 5 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
I guarantee you that my inconvenient medical malfunction was not intended to disrupt your trip to Nantucket. The timing of your trip would have had you visiting us just when my life was totally upside down. I would have been a lousy hostess. Though I would certainly have preferred spending time with you and your wife then with my team up at Beth Israel.

I am more embarrassed by my poor growing to the Ilex than by my rudeness. The deer just have gnawed them to near death every winter. I caged them for a while in the winter, but they just went after them in the summer. However the Hamamelis have done much better though they got eaten back the first year until I moved them all to inside the deer fenced part of the yard. We adore having them in the depth of winter for some color.

We are up in Vermont now, which after renovating the kitchen and bath and enclosing the old garage as part of the house last year makes it a real pleasure. Now that it is actually insulated with high ceilings and lots of light it makes it possible to spend more time up here especially in the winter. You are welcome to visit here again. Glad you made it to my families old farm where Mount Auburn Cemetery is now. Loved seeing the shot of the turkey strolling about without a care in the world even in Nov. I would love to follow you around when you are next doing a botanical tour of Boston. Here is the Brook today and the greatly improved kitchen. Patti