Mid-Atlantic Gardening: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE MID-ATLANTIC FORUM?????, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
JB--

Go ahead and chat all you want....
I don't think I have ever written a short Post either....
Either I have something to say, explain, teach others, or share--or I do not post.
I really do not care for those 3 words kind of posts....like echoing what everyone else
has already said.

Your trees look nice--not a bunch of piled up, 3 month-old trees cut in August sometime.
Don't know if you have seen that I work in a HD. been there almost 13 years.
Our trees come in before Th-Giving. From Canada--I am not sure...

People have returned a few trees as they say that they dried up in a weeks time...
Of course--we take everything back--that is HD's policy. Must keep the customers satisfied.

Our tree prices range from $19.99 (6' Frasier) to $47.97 for the 8'-9' trees of fancier kinds.
We trim, and net the trees for the customer and help them load it on their cars.

I used to work in the garden Dept. but have been a Phone Operator for 7 years now.
In the Summer--I am in outside garden with my table and hold informational clinics on any topics
if a customer asks...I am the most informed garden person in my whole HD.
Nothing machinery or power tools--my mind just shuts down on those.

I love talking to people and giving them off the wall suggestions that I have learned
along the way and that are not your every day, book knowledge.

JB--You look great for 82. Super! see! hard work and dealing with all kinds of people keep one young...
I am almost 74 (March 5th). I have reached the point where i can brag about my age--and see the
surprise in peoples faces....Most think I am in the late 50's to mid 60's.

Here is my table from one of these years.....2009.

I choose a topic every Sunday--and then set-up. No one ever sticks to any topic.
I have a big sign re these Clinics in the vestibule of the main entrance so people know
What is going on.
I started this voluntarily to the 100% gratefulness of my manager. He thinks i walk on water!
I love him to death as well. For 3 years, I have been providing him plants and veggies
that I either grew from seed--rooted cuttings--or dug up something I no longer wanted...

I have all kinds of unusual plants--thanks to trades on DG and seed Swaps.
I have been growing for some years now--and gladly share cuttings, rooted or not,
and seeds. I have about 50 different seeds--most of them from my own garden.

In the "unusual" category--I have:

Brugmansias
Daturas
Red Epis
Ric-Rac cactus
Brazilian Plume Flower
Pregnant Onion
Climbing Onion
A lot of Thanksgiving Cactus
Night Blooming Cereus
Tall, perennial Red and white Hibiscus
Kopper King Hibiscus (Hybrid--does not make seeds)
South Afican Foxglove (new to me last 2 years)
hmmmmm...can't think of any more...

You can look at my trade list--but it seriously needs updating....Not everything is there.
Have to do that before our next Seed Swap end of February.

LOVE your jeep! Looks so neat!

Gita
PS See how Chatty I can get--but then this is a "Chit Chat Post"----


This message was edited Dec 23, 2010 1:57 PM