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Posted by gramma_jan_mn_zn_4 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 3, 09 at 21:03
| Hi All, I'm gramma jan. You will soon learn, I don't believe in taking the time to proof read.
It's been so long, I have missed all my old friends here. I don't know whether GW still has my page or not--must go update it if so. Or do they still have members' pages? Anyway, I used to haunt this-my fav forum, with flowerlady, eduarda, angel cub, girl group girl and many many others. I hope they are all still around. I want to catch up and know how everyone is doing.
As for you whom I have not met. Pleased to meetcha. chuckle
I am looking forward to hearing about and seeing everyone's gardens and even talking about decorating on the flip side.
I have so much to tell you and I hope you have a great deal to tell me, I will try to spread my thoughts out over weeks and months.
Remeber what a horrible time I had learning how to post photos? It's been so long, I've forgotten. But I read someplace that there is a simpler way now. Is this true?
gramma jan |
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| Hi there, I'm Janet in Des Moines, Iowa. I've been in and out of here so often I don't know if I'm a newbie or not! LOL I used to hang out mostly in the Garden Junk forum, now I'm here a lot and still there sometimes - LOL... I'm building a walk-through garden at a house we just bought last fall - there's a thread here called "The amazing ever-changing almost final plan" or something like that... that's me and my project :) Can't wait to hear all you've got to share! |
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"The amazing ever-changing almost final plan" Boy that sounds like my place, especially the bathroom.
Anway, I wanted to tell you that we are headed down to DM next weekend for a tiny family reunion. That's all we can have since we are a teensy family.
DH bro, wife, kids and grandkids, like wise ours. It should be fun. Walk through garden. Wow! You must have the space, I can only dream about.
Thanks for telling me a bit about what's going on with you. I'll keep an eye out for your name.
gramma jan |
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| I'm Tom, one of the few males members (hehehe). I've got a zone 7, NC perennial bed and a veggie patch out back. This is my first year gardening on a large scale and I have learned a lot from the people you named. Glad to meet you. Hope you'll stick around a while. |
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| Hi Gramma jan, I've only been around for a couple of years, I've heard your name mentioned with great fondness, so I'm very glad to meet you finally. I'm the chatty golden oldie from B.C. who wheedled her way into this very fun group. I have been gardening most of my adult life, I'm a plant collector at heart who wanders her garden day and night with a plant in one hand a trowel in the other, need I say more LOL. My garden is full of happy accidents rather than well planned out placements. I have absolutely no will power when I hit the garden centers and I'm not above knocking on a door or two of people I don't know to beg a cutting or two. I'll be looking forward to reading your posts. Annette |
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Jan!
I have wondered about you for so long.
I posted as natvtxn. After a pc crash I had to pick another name as "they' said natvtxn was already taken...well duh.
So, plantmaven it is. I sold my house in the county and moved back into San Antonio Nov. 2007. I just love being back in town.
My DH died 5 years ago tomorrow. It does not seem possible that it has been that long. Kathy |
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| Hi Jan, I'm still around! And so are Diana (angelcub), Edna, Mary Lu, Martha, and many other old timers! :-) Glad to have you back, we want to hear what happened to you in the meantime. Eduarda |
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| I remember you Grammajan! I can't remember if I was posting then or lurking. I am another oldie, gardening in southwest Missouri on a farm and am definitely a plant collector and not a planner/designer. I have a vegetable garden, berries, fruit trees, cattle, cats and dogs and, of course, lots of flowers. Hope you will fill us in on what's been happening in your life since you took a "vacation". Glenda |
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Welcome back! You have been missed. Will look forward to hearing everything that has happened since you've been gone. Yup, I'm still around. Don't post as often as I used to, as life has gotten busy here as well, but I do try to keep up with what is happening with everyone.
Marylu |
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| BIG HUG Gramma Jan!!! It is so good to see you back! |
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Mon, Jul 6, 09 at 13:55
| Hi there~ WELCOME BACK Gramma Jan!!! Good to see you posting again! Becky |
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| Welcome back! Hope you and your DH are doing well. Lots of new faces around here so just start clicking on threads to catch up. As for your page, there's still a link next to your name so check there first and update if necessary. Pic posting instructions are in the gallery, courtesy of Memo. : ) Diana |
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In & out, that would be my story too.
Hi Tom, I started a pottage garden this year, so I will have veggies too. I am thrilled. My garden guy put a stone wall in for about 10' and leveled off the hill, so I would have my "place in the sun." On it I had a 12" raised lasagne garden - board sides, layers of newspaper, leaves, peat, compost, top soil and chips--you know the routine. It's my first official veggie garden. I was soooo excited I couldn't wait to plant it. I feared with the heat of the compost it would all burn up, but it is doing well. EXCEPT now I have dots on the lower leaves of most of my tomato plants. Ugh!
Oh that's right, this is the hosta forum, not cottage.
I have bought lotsa hosta this year--that would be about 30 for me. I am running out of space and still want more. I hate to think what it will be if they grow to their predicted size. See what all of you did to me--hosta lusta.
More later. gramma jan |
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HI GRAMMA JAN!
I'M DUANE. I AM A "NEWBIE". WE RE-ENTERED THE COMPUTER AGE A FEW MONTHS BACK, AND I DISCOVERED GARDEN WEB. THIS IS WONDERFUL!
WE HAVE A COTTAGE ON AN ESTATE: A FULL ACRE TO PLAY WITH, THE PREVIOUS OWNERS DID VERY LITTLE WITH, I'M STAYING MOSTLY NATIVE WITH MY PERMANENT PLANTINGS, PERENNIALS AND ANNUALS NOT SO MUCH. BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF RURAL PENNSYLVANIA SUNSETS OVER THE BACK NEIGHBOR'S MENNONITE CORN FIELD. AND MY LOVELY WIFE, TWO DOGS, DAUGHTER, AND TWO TOE-HEADED GRAND-DAUGHTERS TO SHARE IT ALL WITH. ISN'T GOD GOOD! A SMALL KITCHEN GARDEN, SOME FRUIT TREES AND BLUEBERRY BUSHES, EVERGREENS, SUNFLOWERS AND BUGS (LIGHTNING BUGS, LADY BUGS) IT'S ALL A WONDER TO A 2 AND 4 YEAR OLD (THEIR COMBINED B-DAY PARTY IS TOMORROW. AND THE JACK RUSSELL LOVES THE GRUBS AND JAPANESE BEETLES (SHE'S BEEN SCOLDED FOR EATING BEES). SHE LOVES TO FETCH, AND SHE'S THE ONLY DOG I'VE EVER KNOWN TO BEG TO PLAY IN THE WATER HOSE. AND MY WIFE (DID I MENTION SHES'S LOVELY?) LOVES TO BEAT ME AT CROQUET!
I'M THANKFUL TO BE HERE AND LOOK FORWARD TO ENJOYING THE COMPANY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS LIKE YOU. |
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| Welcome godsacre! Sounds like you are in a beautiful place to live and garden. I think of our area in southwest Missouri as "God's Country"! Please keep posting. glenda |
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| Hi gramma jan! I guess in the scheme of things here, I'm a newbie! :) I've been coming to the GW since '05. I lived in condos most of my adult life until I divorced and then bought a house. I finally get to garden my heart out. I've also gotten to like the mosaics and stained glass forum and garden junk. Nice to meet you too!
Estelle |
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| Hi Gramma Jan. I'm pretty new here, since March. I'm also zone 4 - Central Vermont. This is my first year of cottage gardening so I don't really have much yet and the woodchucks have been a nuisance. I used to think they were cute. Hmmm. Looking forward to reading about your garden. |
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| gramma jan! Lovely to see you again. Libby |
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Oh my, I will try to catch up on some more. There just isn't enuf time--it goes faster and faster, couldn't be I'm getting slower.
midnight, I'm a night wanderer too, but not outside since I had a peeping Tom this spring--it has freaked me out. Re:happy accidents--my style too, in both garden and art.
Yes, cottage gardening is when you find a plant you like and it likes you enuf to follow you home chuckle, then you make a home for it. It has nothing to do with a plant, just wherever there's a bit of space.
tx, kathy, Too bad, I always liked your name. It is so good to see it again. I have missed the visits with people here.
Eduarda, You are the one who got me started on the brugs. Now I have to have one each year. Tho they are big, they are not like yours, cuz I have to grow them as annuals. I may give them up, cuz the season is too short and cool to get a whole lot of flowers where I have it now. The one place where it did well was too close to the window and it was replaced with one of the new problem hardy free roses. I'd love to post its pic, but when will they ever develop a simpler way--like emailing it to the thread or some such?
Glenda, You were posting by the time I "vacationed." I'm an animal lover too. Unfortunately, we had to have our Mollee (Boston Terrier champ) put down. She was the nicest pet I've ever known. How we miss her still, but with all the traveling, it wouldn't be fair to have another.
Mary Lu, I hope you will post more. Your garden is one that has always been such an inspiration. I know how difficult it is to find time tho. But I am determined to try to get here every now & then, cuz I do enjoy everyone here and their gardens too.
ggg hi, good to see your still here. Thanks for the hug, I can always use another one.
becr, I'm glad you are here, I felt I was just getting to know you, when life got in the way of the forum. I made my garden bigger and taught art for a few years. Now, I think I have retired completely from paid jobs anyway. But I have said that before. I just like to work, but physical work is more difficult now.
Angel, Great, I'm glad you are still here. DH has had a couple of unsuccessful shoulder surgeries since I left. He is still in much pain. Thankfully, riding his bike puts him in a position that relieves it a bit. Thanks for the clue about Memo's post. I still haven't had time to update my page, but will try to eventually. I would rather read what others have to say.
acre (duane) Welcome to the cottage. Come on up on the porch, sit a spell and have a drink with us as we share our stories. Sounds like an idyllic life. Your description is wonderful and I feel as tho I am there enjoying it with you. BTW: Please don't take offense, I am just trying to help, but you don't seem like the type of person to be shouting, so I assume you don't know that is what is meant when you use all caps. Someone once had to tell me this & now I realize it causes more eye strain to read. I am glad you are enjoying your land with such a wonderful family. Please keep us updated with them as well as your garden.
lavendar (estelle), I can't resist using lavendar-the name is beautiful as well as the flower and fragrance. Welcome. I am glad you finally get to garden, it is not only food for the eyes and tummy, but food for the soul as well. You are an artist! Stained glass and mosaics. I've done only one mosaic and do fused glass among other types of mediums. I hope you will post some of your art work.
skibby, I got all excited when I saw z4, hope we might meet in person, but I see you are in vermont. Gardening is a lifetime of work and it is never finished, so don't ever apologize for not have much when you are just beginning. Woodchucks, huh? I am battling an invasion of chipmunks. They are even chewing away at the garage cement foundation. I am trying about everything, but a gun so far. We are just too close to the ravine and I guess our stone terraces attract them, they have burrowed around them so much that the dirt behind them is sinking. AARGH! Are you trapping?
Libby, I remember you, good to visit again. How does your garden grow?
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| gramma jan, I am a newbie. We live in Alexandria, VA with two slap-happy idiots we adopted two years ago (no, no, not kids-dogs-the slap happy kid is out of the house and about to turn 30 this November). Most of my gardening is done in the front yard. Needless to say, everything I have begun in the back yard has to be pretty tough and out of the racing paths! Most of the plants I put in this spring in a pretty new bed behind the garage and bordered with a new stone wall has been run over, chewed up, trampled, and/or dug up at least once and often many times. I imagine the pups wonder why I keep putting all this stuff in their way! Still, I persist in the hope that they will soon calm down a little and more and more will gradually survive (just put in six more hosta this morning since I am home with a cold). Have been buying more natives to put in this weekend to stabilize a hill. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, welcome back-I was a lurker, so I do remember you! I post mostly in the hosta froum now since I really don't have a cottage garden-just wish I did! Cynthia |
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| Hi gramma jan! I have been on GW since '06, but didn't find the CG forum until almost a year later. I have been gardening for about eight years now. My first love is plants, then comes the design part. I live in z5 in Spokane, WA. Things you should know about me: 1) I am a bad speller. 2) I love Crocosmia. Glad you are back gramma jan, I look forward to getting to know you better.
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| I Jan. I am on my way back to the cottage too. I checked in to see if I knew anyone and did the happy dance when I saw your post. Are you still painting? We will be in our house real soon and I have a 2.5 acre lot of hills and rock and clay to prepare for next spring. I have been in touch with Dancingwithwolfs and Angelcub on the decorating forum. Edwarda, it is good to see you post. Patti |
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Hi gramma jan! I'm anewbie here actually maybe 2 months new. but was curious about what area of mn you are in.
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BINE ATI VENIT!
Welcome or rather, welcome back. I love this forum. My father, wife, and myself are Romanian, my mother was British, we lost her two months ago. I live in her house in Connecticut. She got the house from a cousin whose great great, had moved here from England in the 1800's. Anyway, I've now owned the house for four years. I've been a member of GardenWeb for a year now. I purchased my mother's home with English cottage garden after being away for years. She was an avid gardener and her being British I believe gave her an advantage. I on the other hand having been born elsewhere was not so lucky in the green-thumb department. Okay, I know geography has nothing to do with talent but I don't want to take the fall for my poor gardening skills. Sierra, Annette, and Nell have been of great help to me although they probably don't remember me. I don't post often.
So welcome back Grandma.
Start posting pictures and Ideas because I've run out of them. lol
Mihai, resident crazy Romanian gardener. |
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| Welcome back too from central Minnesota. I havent participated in a long time either but something seems to be in the air around here lately. |
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Just have to respond to the rest of your warm welcomes home to our common cottage. Come on up on the porch, pick your rocker and I'll get us some lemonade or would you prefer sun tea?
cyn, think I have seen your name in the hosta forum. I go back and forth, so sometimes I don't even know where I am, as you may have noted from a previous post. I had to laugh about the slap-happy idiots. Have you had them to a training class? It usually helps, but then sometimes it is just puppy energy. Good luck on stabilizing that hill, they can be treacherous.
Hi tin (christinmk) You may not know that I love making up my own pet names for everyone-usually they are taken from your forum name. Bad speller huh? Doen't bother me, I live with two of them. As for myself, I have a sticky keyboard, so it often looks like I am a bad speller, cux I don't take time to proof on the forums. What's Crocosmia? Do you have a photo?
Tea, I am thrilled to see your coming back "home" too. What great news that you will be in your place soon. It sounds gorgeous with all the hills-also sounds like it will be a lot of work. Argh, I haven't as much energy now.
Hi wen, Welcome to the cottage. You will make lots of friends here. I guarantee it. We don't allow grouches here, chuckle. I'm from about 80 miles south of Minneapolis. Where are you? Are you just beginning to garden? What types of gardening interests you?
relic, I am dubbing you that, so I remember your wonderful old home and think of the memories that must come with it. Please post more so we get to know you better.
eez, Where are you located? What a great forum name. Yeah, what is that in the air? Is it a knowing that it will be a hard snowed in type of winter, when computer friends and gardens with be out only connection to keep us sane? chuckle
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I thought id introduce myself here, as i really enjoy everyones posts and think this is fabulous forum! I just got married thisyear, we live in a beautiful little 2 story brick home with our pug and our english bulldog. We have a nice sized backyard with a koi pond my husband built. After our wedding in late june, i started to really tear apart the back yard. I want garden beds along every inch of fence. I am trying to create a hidden cottage garden by dividing the backyard with a arbor and grasses dividing the yard , once you get through the arbor i want it to just transport you to a colorful world where stress isnt aloud! I have bought the arbor so far, it even has a charming gate, a cute concrete bench to go near my new weeping cherry tree, and my major purchase will be a large (5 ft) statue of Hebe, a pretty girl from roman mythology.
I think this site is just great and love reading everyones posts and love meeting people who love to garden as much as i do! Around here i only have my mom to talk to about gardening, and she can only talk about it so much! Lol
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lily, So glad to have you here at the cottage along with all our other garden friends. You are so right, there is no place like here to talk "garden."
I love your oringinal idea for your property. It sounds like a great retreat space from the hectic day to day of our lives. I have seen your name on other threads, I think. I will keep a special eye for it now.
I see you didn't include your gardening zone in your user name, so be sure to let us know your zone when you ask gardening questions--it makes a huge difference on how appropriate the answers are. See you over your garden gate.
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| Hi gramma jan-I'm Robin. Nice to meet you. I've been a regular on several forums on GW over the years. Settled in on the cottage forum recently since it's the one I tend to always go back to, to read the posts. I live on just over an acre in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I grow flowering plants from seed mostly and in the past couple years have tried growing a few veggies and herbs. See ya around! Robin |
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| Hi sow, Glad you decided to move in to the cottage and stay here. It is the best forum, by a long shot. Love all the people on it-they are fun, kind and interesting, of course, cuz we share the same interest. Wish I had a little more space, yours sounds great. So does being able to grow so much from seed. It gets to be pretty spendy always having to plant fair sized plants in order to have bloom before frost. I started dahlia bulbs this year and the buds are still tight and frost is predicted next week. RATS! I am growing herbs too, for the first time right in the ground. They have been doing great. We just had our own tomatoes, lettuce and basil with provolone sliced on top and olive oil--yum. So glad you are here.
gramma jan |
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