Thanks Marcy. To give you an idea..........a gardener and customer from Lowes has decided to befriend me. She invited me to her house, and after we went to my favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch one day, I followed her to her house where I looked at all her places she had ideas for. Turn about was fair play and I invited her last Sunday since it was nice and before the bad weather to come up to fairy holler to just see some of the spring that is happening. I gave her the $5 tour...........it took us about an hour or so to meet and greet every flower and to give her an idea of my basic rough plan. I say rough. In her eyes it was overwhelming and amazing and "wow". I don't see it that way at all. Like I said, I paint with words what I "see". It took me 9 years here in this house to get to what she saw as my humble mumblings of what I've done so far. I garden frantically. I sometimes plant several things together. Like the azeala's I got today for $1.50 apiece because despite the lable that said white, they were red speckled and had slashes of pinkish red on the white petals like the fairies had slopped paint onto them. And another plant was totally and altogether different. It had the speckles, and slashes, and the main petals were indeed white, but there were 6 distinct pink with white edging flowers, each one unique. Out of all the azaela's that came last week, there were only 5 of these that were different. I grabbed the two colored one and a speckled with paint one.
Now they're both planted together under the protective skirts of the Sorbaria, non-blooming dogwood baby, and behind the Cornelian Cherry tree in the NSSG. Given time I hope they will root into the good soil and scare me with their height I never think of these things. They either work or they don't. But poor Diane was overwhelmed because what I take for granted was HUGE for her, but I don't take it for granted. If I did that, I wouldn't mind when Sugar dug up those four major beds. No, I work quite hard with the fairies to plant this madness and if it comes together then it's even better. If it doesn't work, I look at the idea and either improve on it or move on to something else. That's all part of the fun of gardening. Your garden will shape up.
If you'd like a smile, and a literal image, let me know and I'll send you a picture of my constipated flower beds from last late spring to make you feel better.... thanks for being there Marcy. You've been there all these year like quite a few of my friends have been here on the newsgroup.
For what it's worth.......I am NEVER going to post something like what I did here or even on Garden Web ever again because I really don't want to upset "Spike" and be banished. And as for here, I respect the people here too much to want to tie up and waste bandwidth on something I can't control or change. If I see something that is wrong and I think ya'll need a heads up, I will make it short and sweet. The heads up about the Sudden Oak Death was great. I passed it on to someone who works at UT Agriculture and they actually hadn't heard about the danger yet and this was a good early alert.
I can't do anything about Monsanto, and if they keep on with what they're doing, we'll all be bitching soon enough. For now, I have to be outraged and impotent and unable to do anything because I am just one person. Lets hope someone on the inside sees the oncoming disaster before it's too late for all of us. For now, I'm just going to take care of my holler and piece of the ridge and keep trying to teach Sugar not to dig up mama's flower beds or rip things that belong to me when I leave her with Rose by herself when I have to go to work.
thanks for responding. madgardener "Marcy Hege" MG, just to let you know, here's one of your NG readers who appreciated the>