Sheila, this one's for you

Thanks Sheila for all your help throughout the season. I never would have undertaken this change project without your continued help in the planning stages. Others have been so helpful in implementing the plan, but you really helped right from the getgo.

So, here is a good place to tell about our back story. I have been sharing my gardens for years with family, friends and many I have gotten to know at the office of Pediatric Specialists, here in Wrentham. I practically lived there in the days of my fostering. As I took in many medically involved cases, I was in there constantly. Got to know all the staff real well. Shared my garden plants with all of the staff, but most especially, with Judy. So Judy used to come here after work with all the boxes she could put her hands on and we would fill them up with plants. She was here on many occasions over the years.

So it was with great surprise that an early conversation with Sheila brought up the subject of her gardens, and what she had already had planted. Turns out she had gotten many plants from her next door neighbor, whose mother had given them to her originally. Sheila told me this neighbor's mom had gotten plants from "Some gardener in Wrentham." Yup, you all guessed right, it was me!!

So here, Sheila, who answered my Freecycle offer was coming to get plants from the gardens where many of her transplanted plants from her neighbor, had originally come from!! That clinched it, bond formed!!

So Sheila, this post is for you. You have so generously been here this Saturday and last, for hours, helping to clear out the areas for the new vegetable beds. Here are some pictures of some of what you got to adopt.

Okay, went to upload the photos I so carefully put into a new folder just for this purpose and they aren't there. Short break in the action here while I go search for them! ......Still not there, need to save this, exit out and try again as they are right in the My Pictures folder where I put them......

Several hours later, after more gardening. Thank you Kelley for helping clear out so much space.

Back to the pictures. I finally was able to upload them. My Foxfire has a new feature where I can save the sites I want to each time I exit out. What I am finding out is that if I do work on another area within the system I need to close down other applications in order to access them through, say my blog, when I had uploaded photos.

So that done, I can now give Sheila a photo tour through some of the plants she took home today.

This is the hybrid Daylily, Hemerocallis, James Marsh. I have had it in my gardens since 1989!



This is The hybrid Lily, Lilium Speciosum Rubrum, or the Lilium Speciosum Uchida, they both look similar.



Whichever, it is from 1994!




The double orange Daylily was from a friend years ago before I developed any of the front beds.




The peach Daylily is the Chicago Peach, also from 1994. I found photos of two different peach/apricot plants.



I'm not sure which yours will be.




Don't know the specific names of the others, but here is the Rosy Daylily.




This is the Butterfly Weed which is in the midst of producing those amazing seed pods.



I can't wait to get some of those planted. It was definitely the plant most visited by all the butterflies and bees this summer!! I have not really liked orange flowers in my gardens, just not my favorite color. But due to the popularity of this particular plant I will definitely be harvesting these seeds and planting a bunch!!! I know you didn't get any of that as I only have the one, but you will be getting some seeds when they are ready!



And to finish off this is the Johnny jumpup, a member of the violet family.



Thanks again, Sheila and Jimmy for all your help today!