Pacific Northwest Gardening: Any Hardy Eucalyptus, Palm or Tree Fern Growers?, 1 by

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OOH, Spooky you are SO in the right place!! A million welcomes, although I saw you've been a member for a number of years. You are among plant lusting friends now, so your family can completely relax their evident habit of not even understanding you. A plant named 'malevolence' is exactly what should be grown. Also, I Love the greenhouse, but love the table next to your helper even more!! (And, of course, love the helper!) We need a list of the other things you brought! Bravo to your family for helping you bring all of your lovelies, even if they complained about it.

As soon as I saw this thread (which I somehow missed before) I was going to recommend Cattledogs to you, but I see she has already chimed in! If you go to her place, begin saving up now. She has more cool plants than can be imagined in one place. We are so completely spoiled by her. Also, since you are now among friends, we are ever so good at sharing what we have, especially come seedling time in the spring. I, all by myself, have put 35 varieties of seeds in for germination for next year, including a number of acacias. Gordon will have stuff, Thistledownfarms grows stuff by the dozen, and between everyone, we all have more plants than we know what to do with. I count on my DG friends to provide homes for seedlings that would otherwise languish since I cannot seem to put the brakes on how many seeds I plant. Our pot ghettos runneth over. And we like the cool stuff. Sure, we plant pelargoniums like everyone else, but they might be next to some cool South African plant, or New Zealand sedge. Or a really cool eucalyptus!!

Here's a warning though, in case you had not already noticed. No one ever stays on topic on the PNW forum. Our threads tend to be wild and wooly and get a little confusing sometimes. We really do try to stay on topic, but it simply never works. I believe we are entirely too creative in our thinking to live inside that kind of box.

Okay, this thread is too old. So it needs to get moving again. Here is one of my 'helpers' . This is Franny.