Re: flowers

[Guest guest]

Dodie,

I saw Milly on the Oprah show, actually her husband was on the show

but they showed clips of her. Unless she has passed on since the show

I believe she is still living. It is wonderful to see how much she is

loved by her husband and how much love he has taken care of her. I

can imagine it is alot like Bill and his Charlotte if he had wrote a

book about his experiences. You can tell how much love there was with

his speaking about her.

Anyways about flowers, I think it is wonderful you can have big dogs

and flowers also! My dogs have an 1/2 acre lot fenced in for them

because they like to wander and my neighbors don't care for big dogs.

They are very loving but you do have to coincide with neighbors. Have

you thought about planting Cypress Leman trees? I think that's how

you spell Leman. They grow very fast and planted so many feet from

each other they provide a great screen. Your bulbs, I don't know how

long they have been planted but if they have been planted for several

years than you might need to dig them up and seperate them. To big of

a clump will keep them from producing the flowers that they once did.

Since I have been sick I am not able to work in the gardens as I once

did but I go out and work as long as my body tells me it will let me.

I use to spend the whole day there. Seeing flowers start to come back

in the spring is wonderful! I hope you have a good day, Dodie and

love to hear more about your gardens.

God Bless,

Belinda

> I just finished reading Saving Milly, is she still alive? What a

poignant

> story, hubby says there's quite a waiting list at the library. I

feel as

> though looking into a crystal ball, not good.

> Belinda and Vera, I have so enjoyed you're gardening exchanges. I

had wanted

> to get into the Master Gardener's program a few years ago, but

developed sun

> sensitivity and had to back off. We have a level corner lot across

from two

> churches, so it's like living in a goldfish bowl. I've tried to

arrange some

> privacy with plants, which has been a real challenge through the

years. My

> neighbor thinks the only plants are edible ones, however, I tuck a

few

> veggies in among the flowers. For a while when I first filled up

the yard, I

> thought it wouldn't work with dogs, but as long as I left

their 'path' alone

> they left the flowers alone, although our old Dane did rearrange my

> Daylilies. Then, I thought our new Dane would undo everything, she

runs wild

> and treats the flowers as an obstacle course as she careens about

and leaps

> over the planters. So, we CAN have both, flowers and dogs, LOL. I

don't know

> what happened unless lack of rain, but my bulb plants have few

blooms and

> they are drooping, that's not happened before. Dodie in MO