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 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.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

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.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK *- Hide quoted text -

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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

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 :-)

Judith

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 :-)

Judith- Hide quoted text -

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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