On 22 Jan, 16:24, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
Maddie wrote





Lurking over the fence across the pond who don't have my address, it's
me, Maddie. aka madgardener formerly up on the hill, overlooking
English Mountain, back in Faerie Holler in Eastern Tennessee zone 7,
Sunset zone 36. Now I've moved to Western Tennessee, miss my
mountains, and the old Faerie Holler is completely gone. *I've brought
with me as best the remains of several containers of perennials and
sedums and such, and am learning a new land. *Western Tennessee is
unlike anything I've experienced before in gardening. It's considered
Delta, as it's not far from the Mississippi River. *Is farmland,
predominantly cotton, corn and soybean crops. Huge in cotton. (I sent
me mum in law over in Southwestern England some cotton to show her
what it looked like before it was picked and processed) *I took this
alter identity until I was sure I could show me face. *If anyone wants
to say howdy, you can reach me through my yahoo account. *Since this
is also swamp and boggy land around here, I KNOW I will at least be
hearing the peepers soon. Not sure when, but I'll give out an update
as I have it. I've missed my friends over here very much. And
apparently I have something in common here besides good lifetime
gardening friends. And they know what I mean gbseg
maddie gardening now in zone 7b in the Western edge of Tennessee with
her English husband

I wondered where you had gone, welcome back.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
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Thanks Bob. We're having a bit of pre-Spring over here. Soaked to the
standing water stage with the last two days under tornado watches
(translation: watch for them, but don't worry unless the watch changes
to a warning, that means tornado has been spotted and go to the safest
part of the house) rains moved in large bands. It was that huge storm
that hit California and then sucked up all the moisture from the Gulf
of Mex. Living here is going to be interesting. I've already
encountered the largest freaking horse flies I've ever seen in my
life. And they're a bit insane. You'd think they were wired out on
Meth. They only bite if you reek of sweat.......so I'm alright unless
I am working out seriously in the yard. But my poor English hubby, you
can hear the little dinner bells as the mosquito's are shrieking
"English sausage!!!! TYPE O baby!!" they eat him to shreds. We had
to try several types of insect repellent. Deep Woods was just salsa or
ketchup. But we found one that works very well. No it's not diesel
fuel....LOL
I have some narcissus coming up already, so tonight in the light of
the street light, I scattered the first extra bag of granulated bulb
food. I will suppliment the rest of the scatterings of bulbs with some
just to assist things. I have little pinkish "toes" of Hellebore buds
coming out seriously from my Ivory Prince I transplanted in Mid-
September. After raking a leaf pile that was five foot high by five
foot wide and twenty foot long, James unraked six garden carts of
leaves because we discovered we had a mud yard. Talk about mud on
your face.....
It should be interesting to garden here. I look forwards to writing
some good meaty garden rambles. The only thing working right now are
the cacti and succulents.
maddie out in the Delta in new Faerie Holler, gardening in zone 7b