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Smiles..and again welcome....Diana....
OOOH, OOOH! SOmeone else from Traverse CIty! I'm in WIlliamsburg. Welcome.
Welcome!!! I spend my summers in Lake Leelanua for work. I love TC
Welcome to the Michigan forum. We're so glad you're here. Tell us about your garden.
Brenda
welcome to our group hope you have as good a time as the rest of us do ;0)
Gloria
welcome to the site
Hello to all of you,
This forum is pretty cool. So here is the scoop on my gardening. I do it for others for money and don't have much of a garden at my home. You know the cobbler's kids have no shoes. I have been gardening professionally (and mostly organically) for the past 30 (yes, thirty) years. I used to think I knew everything and now I know that I know next to nothing. Life is like that, yes it is.
For others I grow perenials including about 300 roses, trees and shrubs, vegetables (anything my people want), fruit apples, pears, peaches , nectarines, apricots, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries and the list goes on. We also mantain interior tropical plants in commercial spaces and high end residences. Gardening is my work as well as a passion. It is great ot find you all to communicate with.
Is there a spell check function for this site?
I am blessed with the most fantastic clients who love their gardens.
Hello
300 roses? Traverese city?
I hv en't found a spell checker for this site that can keep up with me.
I make more typos than it can deal with. LOL.
I used to work in the industry too. I cloned F1 cyclamens in upstate
NY for the Monks in the Oswego area. that was a very nice job.
I also worked in a greenhouse at that time, and was studying horticulture
and got a degree in landscaping and floraculture and arranging flowers.
I worked for a high end greens company in Long Island NY and went to
rich peoples houses (very rich, too rich) and took care of their plants
they had bought. We would deliver a 10 foot bushy succulent for instance
and then maintain it for them. Inside trees were usually 15 feet hight and
placed in huge pots (jardinieres) under a specially built skylight for them.
I then worked for a horrible horrible flaming florist in Great Neck who would
scream at me if I took an order over the phone if he wasn't there. Him and
his boyfriend had 7 white rolls royces. I hated that job. All I did was prep and
green up. Useless.
I then worked for Merry Gardens in Maine she grew all species of geraniums.
That was a nice job. I left there to get another job at national gardens growing
site at the David Fairchild Gardens in florida. that was a super job. You should
have seen it when I was there around 1970's, since then, the terrible florida
hurricanes bleww down all their travelers and royals, and just destroyed all
the trees, it was like a parking lot after that hurricane there. they had a
huge flock of pink flamingos, every day I loved to watch them how they would
come back from the ocean and go to the ponds at the gardens for safety. They
did this every day at 4pm. Funny!!!
You must have some good stories!?
Nice to have you here
Sheri
well, thats life in the fast growing lane. I just grow my garden now. I am starting
from scratch a large landscape and finding it tougher than tough here in Michigan.
I try so hard to start cuttings and most of them die anyway. I am desperate for
Ilex crenata and meservea for hedging.
WOW Wiggly!! What a great 'adventures in gardening ' story you have inside you!!
I only wish i had worked with plants all my life.
It feels so good to dabble in green things.
Can you share any cyclamen secrets? I have two i have had for a while. They are blooming now..
but they get near death in the winter. What is the best way to overwinter them?
Thank You and you sure have some fascinating life you have lived.
Julie
welcome goodhappens.....my brother and s-i-l just moved to traverse city...^_^
