Poppyless in Seattle (well, Woodinville, really)

Looking forward to the photos Laurie!

I always wondered specifically what "mews" meant. Thanks, Laurie. I'm looking forward to the photos, too!!

Cant wait to see the pics, Need to make a tread title " The kingdom of Lauries farm"
p.s. I think you will like the photosmart.

Welcome back Pixs missed ya.

A house is just a shell its what we make it into, Then its a home.



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Hi all, I recognize a few of you... I tripped over this thread and just wanted Tilly to know if she needed more hostas, over on the daylily forum, someone was offering hostas for postage!

I enjoyed reading, thanks for letting me 'share" in your thread.
Pat

Hi Mary -

I love "The Kingdom of Laurie's Farm". Where'd you get that . . . did Laurie already post about it and I missed it?

I'd love to put up a sign like that on my little patch of wilderness.

Good to see you, Pat. Um, I might just have to check out the daylily forum. So many threads, so little time . . .

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I have traded seeds with Laurie And I think it was mentioned in the beginning of her thread in the wild garden when I first joined Daves If not then maybe I let the cat out of the bag. Hope Laurie doesnt get mad at me.

And yes I am interested in more Hostas will hop right over there,
Thank you Pat. Nice of you to let me know and you are welcome for triping over us.
That sounded odd but you know what I mean, nice to have you join us.

Pat do you remember which tread it was???????

It said hostas for postage... let me see if I can find it and get back to..

Laurie,

I probably should have written "My house is regrettably devoid of *16th century* character, I'm afraid". (really need to read that how-to on making text bold) My house was built in 1998 and is in a small sort of suburban-type neighborhood (one of many) within the city limits of Vancouver. The lot is narrower than standard but fairly deep, at something like 48x138ft. My plan is the only one that would fit on the narrower lot based on the zoning setbacks in place when it was built.

I'd definitely like to see some pictures of your house on the mews. I'd read it in books but never really knew what it was, either.

Hi Pat, you're welcome here anytime..

Sorry, I did find the thread but the gardener had already commited all the hostas. I did get an offer just this week from another gardener. She mailed me hostas for postage, so I know there are more out there. Maybe post a "looking for hostas for postage" on the plant trade forum. Sorry to get your hopes up and not be able to hook you up with some!
Pat

Tilly, if you want more hostas I can likely set you up if you don't need to know the names of them. I have some that I'm going to divide, but I've had them so long I don't remember what they are. I think one of them is 'Patriot'. Dmail me if you want some.

I aim to have more of a Queendom here - except when Dog and DH take over, that is. I will get a new set of batteries for Camera when I head into the metropolis this a.m. (metropolis out here is one road, with a dozen shops. We really bustle in this part of the world). But you can get most things, as long as you are not too specific or too imaginative.

I LOVE it!!! I guess internet and catalogs have to satisfy those "specific and imaginative needs!"

ditto! One road and a dozen shops sounds absolutely divine to me! Forget all the hustle and bustle. I hate it. And the traffic. Don't get me started. I'm starting to go out only when I have to. On with the photos!

I'm in the City of Seattle twice a week and when I get home to the island, I actually feel myself sigh with relief. And we do have a fairly major highway down the center of the island - but I take the back roads whenever I can. I mostly shop in the town of Freeland which has probably a dozen shops, including a couple thrift stores and antique stores. My address is Greenbank, but Greenbank is definitely a whistle stop - one old-fashioned grocery store, a real estate office, a post office, gas station, and maybe one other thing (can't remember). It is on the main highway, though, so not quite the quaint little village one would imagine.

Ditto from here, too. It's why I'm out in Woodinville. I'm equidistant between Woodinville, Redmond and Duvall and I try to do as much of my shopping in Duvall as I can. It's growing, though, are there are too many people on the roads, even out here.

This is why I stay home, unless there is a nursery that needs my wallet.
Every day when I drive to & from work on 520, I practice tunnel vision.
Rush hour is very surreal these days.
It's crowded, too, where I am, but I can breathe freely on my little slice of earth.
That makes it bearable.

I know the feeling, I commute to lynnwood daily ferry and all, can't wait to get on my side. I live on the very north side of Kitsap co. 4 miles from the Hood Canal bridge, we are still in the country. And I have no one living near me closer than 1/2 mile. Hate shopping anyway except in the nurseries.

Nurseries & hardware stores - lol!

I love you guys to bits!! We're so alike - and so different!

We do have two nurseries close by - one run by the most terrific family. And a very good second hand tool shop. I don't think there is an awful lot of difference between Burwash and Greenbank/Whidbey Island/Woodinville. Well, we have a bit more recognizable age on our side, but I bet Sammamish was settled about the same time - just not by the Europeans. We do have a Roman road running between heathfield, Burwash and on to Etchingham/Flimwell - so that might put us on a par with the original residents of Sammamish. (I still find it extraordinary that the roman's built a road and we still use it).

That IS extraordinary! Just the thought of it makes me feel so - well - attached I guess - to earth. That's strange, I know, but it makes such a difference to have that kind of continuity.
In my practice I see more and more people who are responding to the overcrowding and general increased stress in their lifestyles by getting anxiety and pulling into themselves more. It's astounding. They don't really see the connection until I start asking questions about things like commuting, standing in line, crowds, etc. I do think that the number of people who live in this area has a pronounced affect on people's mental well-being. I guess I'm not alone in thinking it because I just received an announcement for a professional training in the area that is focused on anxiety and depression being a reasonable response to stress. I thought I would not live to see the day it all came full circle and yet, here it is!!

In my work place I have so many different nationalities, that it is sometimes very hard to understand their language you end up almost doing hand signals or pointing to figure out what they want. And can be very frustrating for them and me.
In areas around here some are harder than others. When I was in Sequim, Wash. we didn't have that language gap.
I should of paid more attention in school in learning diff. Languages.

One day at a time

That can be mighty frustrating, tillysrat. Maybe you are learning new and creative hand signals??

Pixy, like you, I find I get a lot of anxiety/stress related work - and that too is about crowding - crowded space/crowded timetables/crowded thinking. (Where does crowded beds/garden projects come into that?) We all multi-task so much these days, that we are just crowded. Thinking about Tillys comment on multi-lingual/multi-cultural, I find I deal with it just fine, WHEN I am not CROWDED. But oops, too many tasks in too many directions, and my reculsive instincts come full-frontal. Thinking about this - I don't think our generation is all that different from those who came before: settlers left for the open West, Europeans left Rome for England, and the England for the Americas. Native Americans left their 'tenement' caves in New Mexico when they became too congested. maybe the lesson is, we all just need some space.

Amen Laurie!!!!!

Im with you all the way Laurie

You said it best, Laurie! It all equals stress on the system - body, mind, and spirit. Now here's where gardening comes in: I'd rather do that than stand in line at Safeway any day!! At least that kind of crowding is within my own control! LOL!!

But Pix, if the Safeway line is long enough you can flip through all the gardening magazines, make notes and put them back before you get to the checkout. Oh, that's multi-tasking isn't it? Right, let me rethink that.

What gardening magazines would those be, Laurie? LOL!! I see Sunset, and perhaps Woman's Day (where I might find out how to divide my perennials and learn the difference between a perennial and an annual) but most of the checkout line is filled with tabloids. Sometimes my eye is drawn to them due to their horrible fascination. As in... who thinks this stuff up?
Lately I've taken to listening to my MP3 player when I'm at the store. It keeps strange men from asking me the price of produce or which feminine protection item they should buy their wives and I would rather listen to music or a book than to the loudspeaker asking for a pricecheck on aisle 5.
I'm beginning to sound like a cranky old lady. I think I've had too long a day. Or maybe it's because we had one little partial sunbreak today and I had no time at all in the garden. Whoops! Time to go get out the old treatment light! Here comes winter, along with my winter attitude!
Ah, but I will be going nursery hopping with fellow plant enthusiasts this weekend! A balm for the soul, for sure!

Definately a balm. Nurseries hold such promise - what is the collective descriptor for a group of gardeners? You know, a gaggle of geese, a herd of deer - a digging of gardeners, a barrow of gardeners? And if one gets lost, is it a pruned gardener? Must call owls - they'll know (Sorry - owls is the question line for Oxford English Dictionary - if you have a word that is not in the dicitonary and need a definition you can ring them and they will try to work it out. Ahh, only England would still do it).

Do you not get tons and tons of gardening magazines: Gardener's World (that's published by BBC and goes with the TV programme) Gardening Organic (that's mostly for Veg/Fruit), Homes and Garden, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated, Country Living, English Gardens, Hortus (one of my favourites), English Garden History (hmm, that's not quite the right title) - I'll have to check for the others.

Sunset Magazine is one of the greats. They even tell you how to do things like make steps, and install fountains, and build walk ways with pergolas. I like Sunset magazine.

Laurie,
Over the last 3.5 years I was in the midst of divorce, moving, school, dating, remarriage, moving, re-enter school, yatta, yatta, I have not had ANY magazines! A few months ago my Mom sent me a subscription to Better Homes & Gardens. I LOVE to look at the beautiful magazines and I have a whole file of pictures of gardens I have taken out of magazines from years past. I just have not had the time or money in the last few years.

I am hoping that with my return to the work force (soon I hope!) I will have the money to enjoy a few luxuries like magazines. Unfortunately work will cut into my gardening time, but like many of you that work full time, it will still get squeezed in there! My gardening is too important to my sanity to ever be neglected.

I'm a gardening magazine junkie myself - Gardens Illustrated ? I havent seen - I'm going to google it. Psych, when I get ready to clean out my old ones, I'd be happy to send some along to you. *It would inspire me to decrease the pile of gardening magazines in the laundry room - lol

Psych
I have a bunch that I need to "thin out" as well, would you like some? Rachel

I wish I'd known you wanted garden mags. I could have included some in the box I sent you. I just forced myself to purge some Sunsets that I could have sent to you instead....

Hmm. I'm beginning to have an idea.....

That is really sweet of all of you but I'd have a hard time justifying the expense. I've been trying to cut down on my "garden expenses" while I'm job hunting. My husband is such an angel, he never complains but I HATE the long hours he works.

I've found a good potential State job on the internet. I will have my application in on time. I'm trying to not be too disappointed if I'm passed over with this hiring wave since I don't have "experience". I think they will hire AGAIN by January and I'll be in a better position to apply then since I will have facilitated two different on-going support groups by then. One is Managing Moods and the other is a Divorce Recovery group.

Managing Moods, hmmmm maybe I'll sign up

Ah, I thought we were talking about the magazines in the checkout line! Now certainly I subscribe to several gardening magazines. I used to get English Gardens until I realized that I will never in this lifetime live in a castle! LOL!! And the photos were so fabulous I could barely breathe. I picked up some good tips from that one, and it was complete eye candy including the advertisements.
I love Sunset magazine, and Garden Design even though I cannot afford anything that is in it. I like to read Dan Hinkley's column in Garden Design, though occasionally I can understand only every other word he writes. Still, it gives my brain exersize to try to keep up with it. I get Horticulture and Fine Gardening as well. Fine Gardening has become a bit less oriented to 'fine gardeners' and more oriented to mass appeal, but I still like to get it. .I think that's the one that has an editorial by the Tool Guy. I love that guy! He is a great writer and I'll bet he is getting to be a crotchety old guy that I would totally get along with. Jeff something.
But my all time favorite thing is the catalogs that come - seed catelogs and wholesale plant catelogs and all in between. I can read them just like the dictionary! I got my first Thompson and Morgan seed catelog of the season just today.

A group called 'managing moods'? That sounds like a good one. The name sort of rolls off the tongue with ease.

Hi Pixy, I still think you might need to change grocery stores. Yours does not sound like it makes shopping pleasant...

I don't like some of the recent changes to Sunset. I think they're getting a little too California-focused and it seems like their articles don't have as much substance as they used to. Otherwise, I get House & Garden and pick up others on the newsstand as a treat.

Pixy - lol "never live in a castle" those pictures can really "take me away" I get those mags as well - Garden Design drives me crazy, the plants are expensive and wouldn't necessarily make it in my zone anyway, but I continue to love looking at it. Fine Gardening and Horticulture are probably my favorites... and yes I can't always follow Dan either- but pretend like I do! :) Oh, those seed and plant catalogs !!! Such Joy - my dh calls it "Your Plant Porn" tee hee hee

PLANT PORN!!! Oh my goodness! I love it and THAT is so right on target! LOL... That was very insightful of your husband RedTP.