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Location: NL Canada, Zone 5b
Hardiness Zone: 5b
Website: http://ecofreelance.webs.com/

I have been gardening for about 12 years. When we purchased our first 50 year old home we spent much of our time renovating the house and the garden. There were big beautiful trees but also being that the house was previously owned by an elderly couple the flower beds resembled grave plots with squares and rectangle mounds of soil in no special order scattered about the lawn.

I spent many summer days collecting old moldy silk flowers from the garden (The lady said they added winter color--haha) and strings of pantyhose imbedded into trees and tied onto nails. Speaking of nails, the ground was full, this is where I learned to wear steel shank boots in the garden after my second encounter with a large rusty nail through the soft center of my foot...not a pleasant gardening experience.

After 5 years we decided to move on. I designed a dream home with 26' cathedral ceilings and a prow overlooking conception bay. We hired a contractor and the dream turned into a nightmare.

We spent 3 years in a crammy basement apartment where I started many seedlings of apple and pear trees on a window ledge while I contracted a smaller cottage style home myself.

It is now almost 5 years since we moved into our new home and the gardens are pretty much complete...well to a gardener is anything ever complete? 1/2 acre just does not seem to be enough so perhaps we will move on to larger land some day.

Being in Newfoundland I have the climate to work with so I am interested in short-season crops. Edible plants, especially perennials and finding new ways to grow more food in our
inclement weather.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

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GrandmaT

3182 posts in 375 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 304 days ago

Hi, thought I would reply to your “Christmas Rose” question here … the variety is “Snow Bunting” . There are two others that I would LOVE to get my hands on—“Ivory Prince” and “Gold Finch”

Ivory Prince has burgundy pink buds that open to flowers streaked with rose and chartreuse.

Gold Finch has soft green/yellow spotted flecks all over it’s leaves.

May just have to break down and order these two from the catalog Heronswood; as I have not seen them to buy locally.

Do you grow these?

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

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Dahlitsa

108 posts in 295 days

posted 291 days ago

Dear x: It is still so much a work in progress having only started last spring so I appreciate your kind remarks. Hopefully a lot of my hostas will be looking bigger this year.

-- Dahlitsa

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Robin282

111 posts in 252 days
hardiness zone 7

posted 157 days ago

In Praise of Judie…

Judie,
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my hear for making a “plant” dream come true. I received the cloudberry today. I cannot tell you how happy I am. I have looking to get this plant for three years, and have been unable to—until you sent it. Thanks for the snowberry too.

If there is anything I have that you would like, please ask. Now is an excellent time to ship from here (warmer) to there (cooler).

Thanks!
Robin

-- Robin282, Zone 7, SE Coast of MA, USA

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