Northeast RU

LOL, Carrie - I just couldn't resist! HAHA!!

LOL back at you!

i saw that louise before you responded and was going to ask carrie a question about it

so i guess now i can leave the wheel barrel home and put any rock i want on carrie's lap and roll her to the car:)

I just saw a pink quartz rock in one of my walls....it's probably been there forever, & I just noticed it!

what are the directions to your home and when will you be out of the house?

Once I know who is coming I will dmail everyone coming except Patti who has been here a bunch! I sure hope something is blooming. My peak is earlier than I expected! Yes, it's a Sunday. DH will be in good company. This is today!!!!

I do hope I can make it, but we are going up this week, so I am not sure about the next, as we have to be up on the following too. Worth the trip no matter if it is peak Iris or not. Believe me it will be chockablock filled with all sorts of other goodies. Patti

I agree....Kathy's gardens are awesome.

It will be a good experience for DH!

Yah, it will make you look less crazy compared to me!

You calling me crazy? Or yourself? I get it, finally, just slow. No, Ray thinks I am a Garden Goddess, and doesn't seem to notice that most of my plants are dead and that the containers are all growing weeds.

Is there a what we're bringing in terms of plants to share thread for this RU? I can bring some leftovers from my Bluestone 3-packs.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1101231/

Kathy, I am so sorry, it looks like we won't be able to come after all. :( Blah. There's something else scheduled that Sunday, and if I were super-organized I would have been able to predict this conflict, but guess what? I'm not super-organized. I'm bummed, particularly because DH wants to add a few more colors to our 20 x 50' space and I'm saying: stop! Yellow and blue and red and pink is enough different colors. You cannot add magenta and orange and coral and purple and ... he wants it to look like a crayon box exploded!

Aw, too bad, Carrie. We will miss you. Looks like this will be the most intimate RU in the history of DG!!

Lol intimate! Take a lot of pictures, please. I'm sad I can't be there but glad I can go to my other event - you know, pulled in two directions at once .... had to choose.

I wish it were a few weeks from now.... would love to come visit.. way way way too crazy this year.... we even canceled our fathers day bash

Sorry to hear that Allison, we postponed our Canada trip too :(

We'll miss you guys!

I would have love to come, Kathy, but I didn't know about it. You had mentioned in a D-mail that you wanted to do one, but thought it was short notice, and you didn't mention what date. Since I didn't hear back from you, I didn't know what you had decided, and, unfortunately for me, I don't always check what new threads are going on, as it's all I can do to keep up with the ones that I follow regularly. I do hope you all had a great time. I sure you did. It was wet here, but not raining. Didn't get anything done except take some pics. I would have come, too. Oh, well, next year, if you do it again. At least I got to go last summer.

Will you be coming to my RU in July? Let me know, so I can put you down on the list. It looks like a small gathering this year. That's okay, as there will be more DL's to go around to those who want to dig them.

Karen

So sorry Karen. Crazy end of school time of year so I didn't send d-mails but next year I will invite you! Don't think I will be coming to yours this year. I told a lot of folks I would be having an open daylily tour here this year. Which means lots to get done by mid July.

I understand. I took 2 weeks off prior to my RU to get things in order here, plus I'm having 2 daylily sales the second 2 Saturdays in July, so I'll be really busy here. When will you be doing your daylily tour? Maybe I can make it. My sale days are the 10th and 17th, then my RU is the 18th. If your day isn't one of those, then I might see if I can come up. I'm going to see if any of the locals from the DG daylily forums might be able to come here for my RU.

Karen

Maybe I can get DH out there then, Kathy! He's in one of his "there are only 5 colors represented here" moods. I'd like to show him how good five colors (or fewer) can look.

Well, unfortunately there aren't more than 5 colors in all, I think. There's just a huge variety of different shades of those colors. Let me see, there's blue, purple, pink, white, black, red, yellow, green, brown, orange, peach. Well, that's a lot more than 5. Then there's all the shades of each of those colors. White and black aren't true colors, and pink and peach are just red mixed with white and orange mixed with white. Oh, and I hate it when DL's are called blue, cause there aren't any blue ones. Same with the Blue Pearl impatiens (lavender), and the blue petunias (also lavender, or light purple). Oh, and blue roses. None there, either. And no true red TBI's.

Sorry, just me rambling here. I'm depressed over the dreary weather, and our friend Richard has an addiction to painkillers and has been in rehab twice. He's had a long history with drugs, and he's such a nice person, too. He really needs prayers, so anyone who can pray for him it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Karen

See, that's what I mean, it's varieties of the same couple of colors, so they go together. His idea is 9 clashing colors.

I'll be thinking of your friend Richard, Karen.

Thank you, Kathy. He was really a great help to us when he was living here, and he was always so polite and respectful. He was just the nicest person, but drug addictions make people do things they normally wouldn't do. It's just really sad.

Karen

good thoughts to him... yes it is amazing how it can change someone

Thanks, Allison.

Karen

here are a couple shots i took at the ru - a beautiful geranium

and a nice sib - the fly was following me all day! must have been the bug spray

everyone has been very generous at these ru's with their rocks - last fall louise and hank let me come back and hunt out a great large piece of granite for a seat and this year kathy was kind enough to let me grab two - although off property across the street.

with the sun out this photo does not do the stone justice - it has quartz in the back and the front is covered by heavy deep green lichen - very nice!

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and yankee cat (memory) brought a very cool stone with crystals on the inside.

and i have to admit i "planted" these before the plants from the swap!

the second stone from kathy was a solid quartz rock - here it is already a part of the new wall with a nice home on the top layer!

Nice new rocks, Bill. They definitely found good homes.

Karen

thx

That's great. They all feel like rock stars (hee, hee)!

Nice flowers and rocks!!! I love that Sib!!!!!!

nice shots Bill

We knew the rocks would have happy homes!