On 23 Jan, 06:21, "countymayo.j" wrote:
On Jan 22, 6:54*pm, eva shovelful 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

Maddie it's good to see you back, I look forward to hearing about your
new garden. *I'll bet you didn't bring any Vinca Minor with you :-)

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YES I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROFLMAO. (SHOCK AND HORROR!!) It is even
more insidious and worse.......it's Vinca MAJOR!! The true
Periwinkle............I was actually relieved to find I had one teeny
little piece of it hiding in a container. So I ignored it. (it's one
of my cast iron stainless steel plants that are the few left of my
original fairy gardens in Nashville, and sadly, I lost my "Cast iron,
stainless steel walking Nashville fern" which a dear gardening friend
and sister, Ethyl whom I've spoken of often over the last five years
was kind enough to give me a hunk of before I relocated. It dried up
too much before the rains came to me over here......#$%#$% ticked me
off I can tell you. I am going to put out the word to my garden
friends over the fence back here who I deliberately mailed it to when
it was thriving so well and hopefully I will get a hit and someone
else will send me a hunk of it so I can get it established. It will
absolutely thrive here, I'm sure. As for the Vinca......I found it
was already insidiously starting to take over in a corner of my sedum/
succulent Southern loving bed I made that runs along the south side of
the carport and is raised and bricked. I will remove it and put it
where I can keep a wairy eye on it. How's it going Judith? It's
really nice to see some of my old friends over here across the pond.
I've been away and lurking (on wreck gardens) too long. The creative
writing juices are starting to rise like sap again. I posted a message
of my return on wrecked gardens but no comments, which I didn't take
seriously. I mean, after all, my last statements were basically "I'm
leaving, not to get a rise out of some with cries of 'Don't leave,
Maddie!' because I NEED to focus on getting my life together and find
a home and move, and other than leave, I have no time for the crap
that B and C are flinging my way" so I did go. And until I came back
with the alternate e-mail, I had strictly lurked which was hard for me
to not respond back to questions and people I love and care about and
like to swap garden and life snippets. I may not be quite as rambling
or have whole tomes of words like I have had in the last 14 years, but
I will have writings and careful advise. Careful as always to give
proper advice with my resources and books. And my garden books aren't
around me at the computer like they were in the nook of Old Faerie
Holler. We have them downstairs, not placed yet because we need to set
up bookshelves and my permanent spot and we've still got boxes to
unpack and sort through. There was a huge upheaval for me these last
three years. But all's good and I'm seriously gardening as always.
Just on a smaller, financially tighter scale. That won't inhibit me
either. I always find ways to add to my garden foundations and
plantings. g
thanks for the howdy back. catch me up on your gardens since we last
saw each other. And remind me where you're gardening. Right now I am
enjoying the signs of pre-Spring in my new home and rejoicing at the
blooming of my assorted succulents or cacti that are my major
houseplant village.
Keep in touch? and thanks again.
maddie, out in Western Tennessee, gardening in USA zone 7b, about 50+
miles from the great Mississippi River