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 g 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....g 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" wrote in message
...
MG, just to let you know, here's one of your NG readers who appreciated
the
heads-up on the happenings at Lowes. Thanks for all your written ramblings
about Fairy Holler. I just hope that one day, the fairies work some of
that
same magic around my place. I'm trying to encourage them but I've got a
lot of
space that needs lots of amending before the fairies can really work their
magic.

M