Howdy!! Maddie here........just checking in briefly with my gardening
fence buddies to let ya'll know I'm alive and partially well now
living in Greeneville, Tennessee just 38 miles northeast of where I
used to live. Surrounded by the Cherokee National
Forest and sitting in a bowl of green, I've found and am renting an
old house in the older part of Greeneville where the landlady has told
me "plant what you want to, just leave a few paths!"!! still
unpacking, and have some of my cacti and succulents and a few pots of
perennials, I picked up my tree peonies that were loaded with buds at
Ethyl's house last week. the cold temperatures didn't phase them
after I potted them into huge containers and put them against the
south facing window of the downstairs outside. after my gardening and
landscaping friend straightens things out with her family issues, I
hope to get all of my dug up perennials and shrubs and my garden cart
and fairies that she took to her place. I hope. more of that later
if things go wrong. keep a good thought for me, and I've hit two of
the local nurseries with my expertise but nothing yet. Me Englishman
is searching for work as well, we've gotten the younger teenager in
the local high school and the landlady and her husband are sweet
people.......artists and old hippies.........brought the two dawgs and
two of the felines with us, plus 4398 boxes assorted collection of my
life's load. will eliminate as I unpack. but won't let the
Horticulture and Fine Gardening and other gardening magazines and
books (boxes and boxes of those LOL) go anywhere but on shelves.
anyone have some old desks or tables I could have ? I had to leave my
computer desk behind as well as the nice expensive computer desk, but
I have chairs to sit upon..........no t.v., no internet (library and
sometimes usage at the local employment office) and no
landline....plenty of movies and 13 stuffed books of cd's and I can
pull my favorite station to listen to awesome music (WNCW.org) so Aunt
Maddie is still around there somewhere for the NPR station. feeling
better every day and hope to write gardening stuff more the next
time. Me BLOOD LILIES are in complete bloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I
located an Ivory Prince hellebore at the local Lowes which since
Gardengal didn't have time to send it a few times back, I snapped up.
still love you all and miss you tremendously. keep touch, and holler
back at me

maddie up in the bowl of Greeneville surrounded by mountains in
Northeastern Tennessee