Mary the Maimer
Crazy Garden Lady
Call her what you will, but Mary is always a blast! We've gone to a garden symposium, a hypertufa workshop, and a cooking class together over the years, and we're hoping to hit a fall/winter garden forum early next month. I always love to hear about the caterpillars she's caught and then set free as butterflies (aside from the rare wounded butterfly that needs to be cared for in a terrarium) Come spring time we trade seedlings of whatever new veggies we're experimenting with, and through late winter we're trading speculations on what we'll be ordering from the seed catalogs. Now that I live so much closer to her, I'm sure we'll be doing more trading of garden growies. Heck, now that I have yard/garden space, I HOPE we'll be doing more TRADING, rather than me mooching off've her. Mary gave me wonderful day lillies, split from those in her gardens, when we first moved into the condo, and I was soooo tempted to dig them up and bring them with me to the house when we moved.
Not a problem! Today, after I'd been to Stotler's Orchard, she hooked me up with so many plants that the back of my CR-V was overflowing!! In the picture below you see her posing with just SOME of the hostas we dug up. There's also lilies, irises, fall crocuses, oregano, chives, lovage, obedient plant, and more than I don't even know the name of. I had to keep saying "no more, no more!" I don't know if Mary was being generous, or just using me as a way to thin out her growies!? LOL
I'm totally jealous of Mary and her husband's 2.5 acres with beautiful gardens. Mary garden's like I do - fun and casual, letting some things get overgrown, giving everything it's fair chance to try and thrive (until it oversteps it's bounds, or shows that it just doesn't want to go on living). She has such a wide variety of fun and different plants she's bought or that people have shared with her. It's funny how we can point to a plant and name the history behind it. For example, we each have some Raida mint, and some of the hostas I got from Mary today actually came from Carolyn years ago. I only hope that in the next few years I'll have plants ready to be split and share with our friends who're looking to start their first gardens in new homes as well...
Anyhow, here's Mary with a wheelbarrowful of just SOME of the hosta we dug today...
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