hi Toni-
I am new to DG too, and enjoy this forum, as well as many of the others. I am also in southern Michigan.
Judy
So what neck of the woods are you from? (introduce yourself)
hi tonis glad you found us!!! jump right in!
Glad to have you Judy, Welcome!!!
Toni
Welcome to DG and the Michihgan forum.
Paul
New here. I live in St Clair Shores, MI The land of the fish flies LOL
Heee, my grandparents lived in Grosse Pointe. I sure remember the fish flies!
Welcome to DG Marie
Paul
welcome to DG....It is a great..place ..you will learn alot and we can learn a lot from you....so....post away...smiles.....Diana
Hi Marie......Welcome to Dave's and Welcome to the Michigan Forum.....Make sure you talk to Paul about the Plant Exchange going on in the DownRiver area September 24th.....
Deann
Marie welcome to the site. If there is anything you need just yell at one of us and we will try and help!
im-Dori--------> NOTmartha
Welcome Marie, glad to have you!!!
Cindy
Welcome to Judy and Marie. Glad to have you here at Dave's. This is a great group and wonderful gardening resource.
Brenda
We moved to the Marquette area last year.and new to DG.
grannymarch welcome to the site-i have been to Marquette a few times I think the lake still had ice in May!!! ;)
If you need anything just holler and someone will be along to help you!
Sheesh, haven't visited the 'whos who' in awhile - WELCOME EVERYONE!!! Got a growing group here!
Welcome grannymarsh!!!!
Welcome Granny
Stay warm up there>
Paul
Greetings
I live in Presque Isle which is about 13 miles north of Alpena which is about 230 miles north of Detroit. I am a displaced Hawaiian. The first year that we lived here in 2001 we burned 10 cord to heat a small house. Now we are getting used to the cold. I grow hydrangeas, hostas and pulmonarias and what ever else,
Gary
Welcome Grannymarsh and you too Gary! How nice to meet you both. I hope you enjoy your visits to DG.
Brenda
Hi to Michigan gardners I am from from Saline (5b).
I am just starting in to recover my yard from some years of negelect (Think weed city). I am planting bulbs (tulips and lillies) and am going to try dalhias in the spring. I was mobilized into action because my 2nd grader is interested in flowers and gardening is something we can do together.
I do have some question about a problem area which I will eventually post about once I get a picture (Basically an area between shed and fence). Will post some general pictures for ideas also.
On quick question: Has anyone had any luck growing magnolias in my area? I am seriously considering getting one or two sun spires. I need small trees where small is primarily spread (less that 10').
Lester
Lester
Welcome to DG
Theres a lot of magnolias arond my area.
I'm 1/2 hour east of you.
Paul
Welcome Lester,
Good luck taking the garden back from the weeds. I know how fast they can take over. I have a neighbor with a beautiful large magnolia but I'm not sure of the variety and I'm in zone 5B also. Your best bet is to go to a reputable local nursery and ask which variety is hardy where you live and their recommendations.
Brenda
Hi my name is Loretta,I live in Lincoln Park Mi. About 5 miles from Detroit.I love to garden and only have a small city lot,but I make sure that every inch counts.I just signed up here today,I see a few of y'all are close neighbors.So I hope to check in here from time to time and see how all are doing...
Loretta...
Welcome to DG ... I am a former Downriverit...lol...used to live in Trenton...retired...am living 16 miles..south of Jackson....smiles...nice to meet you..I am just a lurker..lol...four years lurking..hahaha...But welcome. come on in and join the fun....Lurking is boring...but I still read a lot and learn...lol......again welcome....smiles...Diana
Loretta welcome to the site i hope to see you around here
its a great group of gardeners!
welcome
dori
Loretta
Welcome to DG
paul
Loretta, welcome. You will enjoy it here. Lots of fantastic information.
Cindy
Welcome Loretta. Glad to meet you.
Brenda
Hi Loretta.....A big warm welcome from Northern Michigan.... I use to live in Garden City, and worked at the Airport....Been living up north now (Tawas/AuGres area) for 12 years now. If your looking for seeds, just let me know. I have been collecting seeds from my flowers now for the last two weeks....be glad to share with you for a SASE....some are annuals, some perennials....
Deann
Greetings to Loretta
Welcome to Michigan. I live 250 Miles north of you in Alpena. I have plenty of Holly Hock seeds, send me a sase if you would like some.
Gary
I want to thank all of you for the nice warm welcome.I really will enjoy chatting and learning from all of you wonderful gardeners.I really like all the gardens,and am already getting great ideas from y'all..I will check in often,and want to get to know all of you,alot of you are my close neighbors.I am on another garden site but this one seems like home to me...
Loretta...
hi to all michigan people.
iam glad to be back i have been down and not doing good had a heart attack triple bypass with two angerams?CAN NOT SPELL with a lot of comp.sjust wont heal right
do any of you know of a place with maybe 1 acre of land and afixer up house to sell for not alot of money you can .mail me on any thing i need to get up north around deanns or lower. thank you. deann are you any weres around the daylily man.
cooksterann
wowow welcome back...sorry to hear...you have not been well...sorry I do not know...about...something up northern way...I am sure someone..will come and tell you more..lol....glad you are back....smiles..
Diana
The Daylilly man lives in AuGres, and so do I. He is on Tonkey Road and I am probably 5 miles from there. Did you know that he is closing down his operation. He is really not in the best of health. If you will email to me your home address with your phone number I can put you intouch with some real estate people here in AuGres. Can I ask why you choose AuGres area?? Not too many people know of it.
Deann
Hi cooksterann,
I live in Au Gres also. I hope you find a place near here to buy. My son just bought a fixer upper on Delano Road. It needed everything though and he's still working on it to make it livable. The price was right though. :)
Good luck in your search. You can look around online by going to realtor.com and typing in the zip code of AuGres which is 48703. Let us know if you get up here. Sorry about your bad health.
Brenda
Hi Everybody. I checked out your forum because I still have some "Michigan blood" in my veins. We moved from Croswell (Does anyone know where that is? 90 miles from Detroit, 90 miles from Lansing [or is it Flint?] ...anyway, 20 miles from Port Huron, for sure, and one mile inland from Lexington.) when I was eight years old to Memphis. What a culture shock! But I managed to get a southern drawl, and I guess by now I'm a full-fledged southern girl, since it's been 50 years ago :)
I've been looking at your pictures, and it really makes me homesick. The black dirt, the deer, and that beautiful bleeding heart. I remember our neighbors having a bleeding heart, and even though I was a little girl, I thought it was SO BEAUTIFUL. So when I got the gardening bug, I tried to grow one down here in Olive Branch MS. It comes back every year, but it's not like a MICHIGAN one!! Not as big, and not as beautiful.
My grandfather used to grow roses in Croswell. People would come from many, many miles away just to walk through his yard. One of my biggest memories of him is him taking care of his roses... all the time. They were so beautiful, and we have many, many pictures of them, for which I'm glad.
Anyway, y'all Michiganders keep this string going so I can stop in from time to time to get a Michigan fix. When I get in here, I get homesick!
Pat from Olive Branch MS
Well...welcome to the Michigan...forum...you can get your fix anytime....smiles...Diana
Thanks, Diana! I will :)
Welcome Pat,
Glad to see you visiting the Michigan forum. I'm sure there are tons of things you can grow down there in MS that we can't grow here. I remember seeing pampas grass down in North Carolina and how envious I was of it. I did order some and managed to even pull it through our mildest El Nino winters for three years but the first winter it dipped belong 0 it was a goner. :) I did have people stop and knock on my door wondering what that grass was and where they could get some. The last year it was alive I had 82 plumes on it (I know cause I counted them all). I also am envious of your Crape Myrtle trees. I ordered and grew the hardies of the myrtle bushes (had an Indian name that escapes me) and babied it and got it through a couple winters. It would die to the ground and come back but never got large like a tree and finally succumed to our harsh winters. So, while we can grow lilacs and bleeding hearts you can grow all those fancy warmer weather flowers that we drool over.
Hope you stop by and visit often.
Brenda
Hi Pat
Welcome to the Michigan Forum....I know where Olive Branch is...My son use to live in and around the Holly Springs area....ya all come back any time now....ya hear....
Deann