Canadian Gardening: Moose Jaw visit/cross country musings, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
LOL.......well thank you Ginny for such a lovely write-up! Ü Ginny is being very kind......I also have a lovely growth of Hell's Bells (Ladies Bells) and will be attacking them this weekend. I'll be looking for the 3-Way today echoes. We've dug down to China to try to eradicate them ......... didn't work! :( Seems you get 20 new ones for every one that was removed (a downside to living in an older house....some of the nasties had many years to get established).

It was sooooooooooo wonderful to see Ginny and visit with her. An amazing women who crossed almost 1/2 of our country in record breaking time. It brought a big smile to my face when I saw the VW van sitting outside the house. I wish my land lubbing lillies were in bloom so Ginny could have ID them for me again (I should have used a pencil to mark those darn labels).

My brug trees (size of trees but they are below the Y cuttings so really are large bushes) take a while to recover from the basement Brenda (they are starting to fill out well)......some of the young ones have buds now so I'll take a pictures when they open. Ginny is right about the plants......DH gets very cross at me when it's time to bring them in. Mind you he also loved them, as much as me, during the summer when they were putting on a show. Grumbling loudly seems to ease the stress for him (not me) when we are racing against OLD MAN F*R*O*S*T.

With all my new babies, from the RoundUp, etc., we are going to have lots and lots of additional oxygen in the house this winter. ;) We are already eyeing how we can prepare the upstairs windows for some of the smaller plants.

Ginny also came bearing gifts..........wonderful green stuff! I've always wanted to grow a Bay plant and she also brought a Hebe (new to me). I did some research in the PlantFiles and now know what it is. THANK YOU Ginny!



This message was edited Jul 8, 2005 8:41 AM