Northeast Gardening: Garden clubs, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Thanks for the good thoughts, Cathy. Brookhaven is quite a drive for me and night driving is a horror for me. Other clubs are 90 minutes away and mostly meet at night so they are out as well. It's part of the penalty to be paid for living at the very eastern tip of Long Island, just 14 miles west of the ocean.

We actually have some neighbors who consider themselves to be gardeners but who know nothing of soil, have no idea (and couldn't care less) about names, can't distinguish lacecap from mophead hydrangeas, refuse to remove invasive plants as well as banned plants, and classify all roses as being just roses.

I have one local friend who is terrific with plants and has the most beautiful garden (even when covered by snow), so she and I talk plants quite often and that will have to satisfy me. My friend created this out of weeds and 60 year old overgrown shrubs along with a swimming pool she had filled in where you see the low wall. She is a delight to know.