BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!

Subject: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Janie
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:24 PM

My garden is going to be included this year on the Historic Hillsborough Spring Garden Tour, on May 14 & 15. I am pleased and honored. This is a significant regional garden event that happens every other year, and usually includes the Montrose and Chatwood gardens. (My own garden doesn't compare to either of those, of course.) I'm excited and just had to share.

Thanks,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Tinker
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:39 PM

WOW !!!!! If the wonderful flowers that graced Kendall and Jacqui's wedding cake are a sample I have real experience that this is a deserved honor. Big hugs and a few pats on the back headed out your way.

Great News

Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:50 PM

Congrats Indeeed !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: number 6
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:55 PM

You should be pleased .... Congratulations Janie!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Nancy King
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 09:46 PM

Good for you! Hope you'll take a lot of pictures and post them so those of us who can't make the tour can get a little hint of how gorgeous it is!

Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:04 PM

You go, girl...

...but don't firget to tell everyone where you got that nice patch of Linten Rose's...

Nuthin' but snow here so it's good to hear a little gardening talk...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:47 PM

Okay, Janie, now you need to fill us in with more details. Do you have web sites for the places included in the tour? What is your town and your USDA zone, and what do you think will be going full-tilt at the time of the tour? Anything to give us a good look from afar would be delightful!

SRS (my daffodils are lovely right now, and the quince has been blooming for two months, I swear!)

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 01:21 AM

Congratulations, Janie. Happy thoughts from over here. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:16 AM

hillsboro is in north carolina i think!
what will you be planning/planting special
so it can be in it's prime by that date?
i planted peas and fava beans recently.
http://www.historichillsborough.org/
http://www.historichillsborough.org/calendar/
Chatwood garden
http://www.metronc.com/issues/issue7-8_00/Design/designq.html
http://www.ilovegardens.com/North_Carolina_Gardens/north_carolina_gardens.htm
montrose and others:
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_gardens_secret_gardens/article/0,1785,HGTV_3594_1385417,00.html

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 03:23 AM

I gotta pair of magpies in mine. I chase off the crow, it eats my goldfish.**BG**
Congrats!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 05:03 AM

Whoo hoo!! Congratulations!!

I got tits in mine.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 05:46 AM

Dandy!!! Hope you can post pictures.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Emma B
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:45 AM

We have a whole ******* murder of crows at the moment!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 09:05 AM

Fantastic, Janie! You are deservedly proud. You have done wonders with your garden(s). And who wouldn't love that little hideaway you've created under the fir trees (or are they spruce?) It was such a great place for a jam on a warm summer's evening! The wonderful floral scents laced the air at sundown. Ah-h-h-h!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 09:27 AM

I'm just fascinated that a garden tour could occur in May! we don't count on last killing frost having gone by until Memorial Day.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Dani
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 10:47 PM

Honey, when I first visited this place (I live near Janie) it was the middle of December, snowy, cold as $%*&*@&^ when I left New Jersey, and here everyone had pots and pots of pansies, bright colors along sidewalks and spilling out of windowboxes. I said, "what's going on?!" and my tour guide said, "Oh honey, they're just 'winter flowers'".

We rented a house that day and moved on down.


Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Pauline L
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 11:06 PM

Congratulations, Janie. Please tell us more (see questions from SRS) and post photos when they're available. It's so nice to dream of gardens in bloom at this time of year.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 11:40 PM

Congratulations! I haven't got a garden, yet! I have a yard, a shovel, a trowel, and about two thousand garden catalogs. So, any advice you'd care to offer will be greatly appreciated.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 04:35 PM

The catalogs will make great mulch to the keep the weeds from coming up in your beds once you have a few things planted! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: Janie
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 04:05 PM

There are no good photo links to Chatwood or Montrose though there are a number of on-line articles with a picture or two. Montrose is listed with both the Nature Conservancy and the Garden Conservancy. They are both private gardens that allow public tours a few times a year.

In mid May I will have old garden roses and peonies at their prime, or just about finished up, depending on how quickly it warms up this spring. I hope for a late spring, otherwise it could be one of those "twix and between" times in my garden, in which case I guess I'll put lots of flowering pots of pansies, verbena, pinks, etc. around the beds. I have a fair number of good quality sculptures and architectural elements and garden art so it usually is interesting even when not much is in bloom. My property is not large, maybe 1/3 acre, but half to two thirds of it is garden beds, plus I have some spectacular trees. One is a huge and symmetrical Pecan that is the centerpiece of the back yard. I also have a large and stately China Fir and what I think is a Burford Holly with a trunk that is a good 4 feet in diameter with a broad canopy that makes a perfect shady sitting area. Allan was talking about those trees in his post above (Congrats! Allan & Carmen--I have been holed up and didn't post to the wonderful wedding news.)
This has been a rough winter for gardens here in Zone 7 in the NC Piedmont. We have had extended periods of unseasonably warm weather when plants have broken dormancy way too soon, only to get slammed by another cold front. this has happened several times this winter. I always pot up lots of pansies and violas in the fall. They are usually gorgeous from late March until June---I have lost nearly all of them, and will have to start replanting in a week or so. I'll be surprised if my garden is at its best this spring, but....The yarrow (a big bed of Colorado Mix) may be well colored up. I have another bed of yellow yarrow (Goldplate and Coronation Gold) mixed with blue larkspur that may be starting to bloom. The oriental poppies, salvias, coreopsis and bearded iris may also be in bloom. All the spring bulbs and azaleas will be finished. Bleeding hearts, sweet woodruff and peachleafed bellflower may be prime. Columbines should be blooming. Hydrangeas may be starting to color up. Or--it could rain like hell for the week before the tour and it will all look awful.
    The veggie garden is mounded raised beds and is small, about 25' square. Summer crops will just be getting established. I'll need to do some carefully planned succession planting to have spring crops that look prime at that time. This winter I attached hayrack style half-baskets to the fenceposts, and will use cocoa fiber liners in them. They will planted with rosettes of some of the more colorful lettuces and with edible flowers like violas, calendula and nasturtiums. I will hopefully have built a twig arch over the gate into the veggie garden, and Bobert's hyacinth beans will just be starting to climb them.
    I look forward to the work. This has been a tumultuous winter both at home and at work. I really need to get out there and dig in that dirt to regain some balance.
    Do I hold the record for lengthy posts on Mudcat? If not, bet I'm close.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: open mike
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 05:09 PM

if you ever cut the yarrow, the stalks of Achillea millefolium can be
used for throwing the I Ching...Chinese divination method..
http://www.tryskelion.com/ichstick.htm
http://www.eheart.com/yarrow/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A647840
http://www.championtrees.org/yarrow/yarrow.htm

we used to sell these along with the I Ching book.

all your plants sound lovely...you must send us pictures!!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners, I Gotta Crow!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 05:43 PM

Gardeners, I Gotta Grow!

~Crown Vetch