Please help me welcome Cybercrone Ü ......

from Toronto, Ontario, to Dave's Garden and the Canadian Gardening/Chatting forum. We are so pleased to see new members here AND ones that will jump in and join our conversations!! :D



This message was edited Jun 20, 2005 10:20 AM

Welcome! You are going to love it here!
Happy Gardening!
Brenda

Welcome to Dave's Cybercrone! Hope to see you around. I know you'll love it here. What do you grow?
Christine

Hello Cybercrone! Hope you'll stop in and tell us a bit about yourself and your garden. I was born in Toronto....just a few.. ahem.. years ago. Don't remember it though, moved to Edmonton when I was very young and spent most of my life there. But now I am living happily ever after in the Southern Interior of Beautiful B.C. :Donna

Well, thank you all!!

I just got my first house about 5 years ago - a totally trashed crack-whorehouse that had no windows and hardly any floors - and I've been working on it - or at least hiring people to do the hard stuff - as I get the money, working a full-time job and a part-time job and trying to get time to see my 5 grandchildren too.

So 6 solid years of almost constant upheaval (Lilypon I *do* know about feeling as if it will never end) and I think I can take a bit of a break now.

But when I decided my kids were flying on their own and I could start to save for a house, the prices were going up so fast that no matter what I saved, I couldn't get a larger % downpayment. So I found a house I liked, that I thought had possibilities, bought it, moved in, lived with boarded up windows (In November and December) until they found the windows I ordered that had gotten lost, then lived in a fishbowl for a month because the blinds got lost too.

If ya don't laugh, ya cry . . . ya know??

Anyway, grew up in the country, but forget everything I ever knew about plants, mostly. We had a huge garden then, and I spent much of my time in the woods.

So now I'm trying to get a bit of garden going here, and here I am.

So now you all know more about me than you ever wanted to know

Where can I find some bio stuff about the rest of you? This seems like a really nice group. I'm glad to be here - or did I say that already?

Great to meet you cybercrone. And quite a story you have to tell. I think you have done a terrific job holding it all together and finally getting what you wnat. Now that's woman power!! WTG! For Bio's about us, go to Memberlist at the top of the page and there you can either type in the name of who you'd like info about or just cruise the alphabet until you recognize someone. You can also search my Zone or By Province. :Donna

I'll post some pics of my roof garden.

Beside where the stack (black pipe) goes up, there will be a Japanese rain chain and an copper bowl in place of the downspout and black water barrel that were there. But it seems to have been held up in the mail.

And here is the wild strawberry patch.

Does anyone know if the two tall things in it are flowers or weeds?

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And a view from the bedroom door out to the back yard.

I'm still figuring out what will grow up here, but it's fun.

The only problem is that I have no memory for plant names and can forget what I liked and anted to try in 5 seconds literally.

I do want to try some of the poppy-seed plants, and I'd love to try that dark blue gentian from one of the other Cdns, that's on the "Feeling Blue" page.


This message was edited Jun 20, 2005 8:18 PM

Welcome to Dave's Garden. I'm glad you came. Those tall things look similar to a 'weed' that fooled me a few times. They could be goldenrod, but then they could be a lot of things. Post another picture when they bloom and we'll hope they don't take over in the mean time.

echoes

Thanks, Donna and echos.

Suggestions noted!

~marilyn

Yup, its a weed, I've got one too that's right where I planted purple asters last fall. Wasn't sure which is the aster and which is the weed, but now I know, I can yank it!

So, Cybercrone, you should know your hardiness zone and enter it into your info. Since Dave's is a US site, Canadian hardiness zones aren't available here, but I have the link to the Canadian hardiness zones site, I forget how I found it, but here you go - http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/climate/hardiness/intro.html

It sounds like you have quite a bit of work ahead of you still with your gardens. I'd love so see your Japanese rain chain and cooper bowl once you get it in. Poppies are lovely when they bloom, you'll just love them, I'm sure. I have oriental poppies and the flowers are huge and the plant is extremely hardy in our zone.

I live in a townhouse. I have more than 100 indoor tropicals on three floors. My passion is for tropicals, but I have a minor, but growing, obsession is for hoyas. Outside I'm severly limited space wise, but still have quite a few perennials in the space I'm allotted, and even snuck in a dwarf Korean Lilac bush to hide my A/C unit. I also have a nice big deck over my garage and I have planted several annual filled containers and flower boxes.

My Siberian Irises are blooming right now and wanted to say hi.

Christine

Your place looks great, cybercrone!

You've done a wonderful job cybercrone! Ü Your strawberries are further ahead then mine....I've just got the white fruit forming. I look at your rooftop garden and think I should put my lotus on top of my (almost) flat roof garage. It gets *really* hot up there.

Sorry I took so long to reply....my daughter, son and I have battles over computer time. ;)

Welcome cybercrone, and thanks for sharing! --Ginny (near Goderich)

Welcome to Dave's, cybercrone.

Yer gonna like this place. :)

Darrell

welcome to our wonderful forum, Cyber! Elaine

Welcome Cybercrone...you are sure to meet some great people here!
Todd