TO ALL MEMBERS

3/22/2010


Hi..

I just finished a great garden column that should
be of interest to everyone who loves plants, a great
source with a website and catalog....Check it out..


Cheers..Joe...

3/22/2010


What are your favorite plants ?

Cheers..Joe

"...Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme..."

...and oregano, and basil, and chives, and cilantro, and epazote, and lavender, and......

Ann

And old favorites - my dad's roses. they were frequent winners at the area Rose Grower's Association shows

I LOVE GERANIUMS ALSO!

Ann,

You Dad grew gorgeous roses. I love the bottom one.

3/22/2010

Ann..

I grow roses, love them, here's one.
Click on photo.


Cheers..Joe

Joe,

What a beautiful flower! Thank you for showing it.

joefrank wrote:

3/22/2010


What are your favorite plants ?

Cheers..Joe

Seaweed.

domenic Pappalardo wrote:

joefrank wrote:

3/22/2010


What are your favorite plants ?

Cheers..Joe

Seaweed.

Do you like to look at it or eat it?

The sea is my (ever changing) back yard.

3/23/2010


Everyone should check out my new garden
column, very informative..


Cheers..Joe

My yard has no weed...and the weather never hurts it.

Dear Domenic,
I think that the sea is the garden of the future and the past. It is not many who can watch that garden grow or plant it, or admire it every day. You are a lucky man.

Joe,
I really do admire old fashioned roses. The one's who have lovely roots, grow no matter what. They do not have all the petals of the tea or hybrid roses, but, they last and grow and are beautiful. Hedge roses, climbing roses. All from some wild stock. I love those. Simple flowers.

I love weeds. Not so much in my yard, as down the road. I walk and take a book to identify plants that interest me. I have learned a lot about the weeds that grow here. They are small, beautiful flowers. I have an eye glass that I can look at them up close. How beautiful the world is!

Love,
Betty

I have one climbing rose, only because it survives without my help. I used to have all kinds of rosebushes, but gave up on them, as they're just too high-maintenance. They rot, they get those bugs, you need to put powder or spray on them all the time -forget it.

Re seaweed, I eat it all the time, wrapped around sushi and white rice!

LC,
I know that seaweed. It is green and like rice paper thin, it stinks like the scum from a dried pond. My stepson, Kenneth is Japanese and his mom sent it to him all the time. PEEEEUUUghhh. He loves that stuff.

Have you tried the parsely tea?

Take a half a cup of dried parsley and nuke it in a cup of water. Drink and eat it and you are good all night long. Awake that is, not testifying to mental condition in the morn. It may be the new street drug. Not as aromatic as oregano, but more powerful, so they say.

There is the rumor about dried shrimp, too. That is only if you do not care how you smell or with whom.

Love,
Betty

It's called nori. It's yummy. My favorite food as a baby in Japan.

Dear Lin,
You make me smile.


When Kenneth would get the box of stuff from his mom from Japan, he and his dad, my David, all of a sudden developed antennae and snerfed and smacked their way through that stuff. She sent so much we put it in zip locks in the freezer and even then it smelled up the whole fridge. Oh, they made rice balls and wrapped them up so nice, but it all smelled like green algae to me. Tell me about being a baby in Japan.

Love,
Betty

Like LC, I used to love roses in my gardens but they became too expensive and high maintainence. I am now a big fan of all types of daylilies, and they are everywhere! Buy them small (cheaper), and by the end of the summer they are huge, no thanks to my neglect.

And they come back every year, more beautiful than ever!

3/23/2010

Ruby..

Try planting Peonys, their gorgeous
and fragrant, come back every year bigger
and better....

Cheers..Joe

Betty Fasig wrote:

Have you tried the parsely tea?

No, I drink lots of green tea. The antioxidants are good for you, so they say. If you put enough Splenda in, it kills the taste.