Welcome to aguy1947 from Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, NF
Hope you enjoy Dave's Garden. We look forward to getting to know you.
Ann from Ottawa
Welcome another Canadian
Welcome from the other side of the country in BC!
Cheryl
Welcome
zarcanat from montreal, QC
and welcome from Calgary!
welcome to the forum, from me in North Vancouver, BC......Elaine
and another welcome from the middle of the prairies.
Pam
Helloooooo aguy1947!
Sandy from the Ottawa Valley.
Welcome from the other Ann an Albertan!
I look forward to hearing about your garden.
Ann
Welcome aguy1947, from Ginny in not very snowy mid-Western Ontario.
Thank you , folks. I am still finding my around. I had an adventure with identifying a tree that came to me as Cornus florida, then tried on Cornus kousa satomi for size, and finally settled on Cotoneaster bullatus (syn rehderi). Great fun! I have about 2,000 seeds on offer, and I took cuttings 2 days ago for more fun..... This shrub is doing so well here (zone 5a) that I will encourage ALL to try it - cherry red fruit starting in October. I am known in Portugal Cove as the Flower Man a/c doing church flowers for five years. The hort society think of me as the Dahlia man 'cause I am a Dahlia nut. I have an ebay Nikon D100 camera to learn now too......... (It can do PURPLE!) For you folks, it is important that you know that I have grown a lot of stuff over the years from seed.
I got started with my mother's dahlia clumps at about age 12.......... even knew a fair bit at 20 for a Spring job at then Woolco........ selling the plants/shrubbery. When I saw what could grow here in Newfoundland at a show, I was totally inspired/challenged to grow plants to see how they performed here. A Strelitzia regina is a bit big for the house.......
Bill in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, SE Newfoundland, Canada zone 5a
What a beautiful arrangement Bill. I too love Dahlias, but I also tend to be a gardener who practices the "benign neglect" gardening method. This means, among other things, that I try very hard not to get many things like tender perennials that need to be dug up or otherwise specially handled for over-wintering purposes.
Alas, these people here at DG's are slowly corrupting me :-) As well as the 3 dahlia tubers I allow myself at any one time, I now have a tuberous begonia on order and one of the other members here is rooting a brugmansia cutting for me from one of her own. Oh, woe is me! LOL Y'all are gonna turn me into a "real" gardener yet!
--Ginny
Welcome aguy1947 from Pickering Ontario....
Anna
Pleased to meetcha Bill! You seem quite knowledgeable with regards to gardening unlike myself who still trying to figure out many things,lol.
All the best!
Erynne in Mississauga, ON