Perennial exchange 2001
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| Every spring, Leila hosts an afternoon
for friends (and friends of friends) to exchange perennials. Although the date
changes a bit from year to year, she somehow manages to pick the weekend with
ideal weather most years!
The exchange gives everyone a good reason to get into our gardens to split up some of the more vigorous perennials. Just collect the remainders and drive out for a pleasant afternoon of visiting and swapping tips. As a result, our area is sprinkled with survivors of everyone else's gardens: plants that do well, survive; better perhaps due to their new caretakers having had the opportunity to learn first-hand about their particular preferences and habits.
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 Katharine
is making room for cuttings of a Hosta from her mother's Toronto home. The
rootball was densly interwoven and should appreciate the new opportunity to do
it all over again. What's more, some of the cuttings are already dispersed in
someone else's garden: a bit of Toronto in the Pontiac.
These Hostas lived in sandy soil in a fairly shady part of our front perennial bed under a black cherry and shaded to the southwest by a large lilac grove.
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 A
place for contemplation?
Perhaps the Buddha is encouraging us to consider the connection between the spring tulips and Norbert and Leila's rich compost spilling out behind.
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 Everybody
lays out their "offerings" for easy browsing... some are labelled;
others need details directly from the grower. |
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of course, there's plenty of opportunity to chat. Like most, this year's
exchange was warm and sunny -- adding to the mellow mood as people get a chance
to catch up after the winter snows.
Richard and Tom probably aren't talking perennials here! |
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All of these pictures were taken by Eric with our Nikon CoolPix digital camera, then cropped and compressed for web display with Photoshop. The original shots are 600 to 950KB with 2048x1536 pixels. |
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