New from Maryland

Hi Everybody!
I live on a hillside in the woods near Sandy Spring, MD--zone 6b.The clearing around our house mostly qualifies as part shade. Been scratching around in the dirt here for about 5 years, strictly trial-and-error. I've found that Astilbes thrive beautifully in this environment and sedums do well too, though I'm limited to the ones the deer don't like. I've planted skip laurels, Otto Luykens, azaleas, hypericums, cornus kousas, viburnums, serviceberry, etc., etc.. Gardening is my greatest joy. I look forward to sharing that pleasure with Dave's community.

With spring coming, my main interest now is finding others who're (that word doesn't look right, sorry) interested in visiting public gardens as a group. I visited Hidcote Gardens a few years ago and it changed my life. I can still see that great towering Cedar of Lebanon! Now that I'm retired, I'm dying to go to Winterthur, which I've never seen, and visit Longwood again--just for starters. I'm lucky enough to live close to Brookside. Never been to Dumbarton Oaks.

Guess that's enough of an introduction. I'm very excited about joining this community and I look forward to sharing with other gardeners and learning from you.

Grossmutti (silly name: can I change it?)

Hi, welcome to our community! In case you haven't found it yet, here is a forum 'specially for folks in your part of the country:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/region_ne/all/

Gee, I dunno if we're allowed to change our username...yours is catchy, though! You can ask admin by clicking on "Contact Us" at the bottom right of the page.
Enjoy!

Edit: I just noticed you posted on the Mid-Atlantic forum--sorry, I guess I gave you the wrong one, lol.

This message was edited Jan 9, 2010 11:32 PM

hello and welcome frm upstate new york. how fr away are you from ocen city where my family have vacdationed for the past 20 years.

We have a beach house in Fenwick Island, just across the state line in Delaware. We go there off season a lot.

can i become your new best friend. LOL i'm familiar with that area.

Please be my best friend.

I love the potted geraniums in the Ocean Hyway median strip in OC, but it's all I can do not to stop the car to prune and water the poor things.

LOL ...spoken like a true gardener!

being a new york i want to stop but instead of watering them i want to steal them. LOL

Well, no one could blame you for that!

Ocean City, Md. is 3 hrs. away. We're closer to Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg area and about 20 miles outside of Washington, DC. (my guess) Had contact by Grossmutti yesterday through D-mail and hopefully we will be riding together to the Frederick seed swap on Feb. 27.

How nice, a new friend already! I love that about DG.

Hi welcome.. nice to already have personal contact coming up.