I thought I'd tell everyone how I began gardening. As a kid we lived with my aunt & uncle in Hawthorne,California. Uncle Gene worked on airplanes at Douglas Aircraft during the week and gardened during the weekend. I guess he was kind of my hero and I really looked up to him all my life. Aunt Ruby sewed and sewed. She had a day job working at a furniture plant and sewed all of her free time at home for other people. Uncle Gene would come home from work and piddle in the yard or garage. He did the cooking and cleaning, not your average guy.

He had everything in that little back yard! Some of my best memories are with him. He had what he called Naked Ladies, which I finally figured out a few years ago what they were. They were canna! Imagine that! He had a whole row of them behind the apricot tree that I used to spend my time in as I got older. I used to climb up that tree and hide and watch the world go by, it makes me smile just remembering it. He had gladiola's that reached the sky, well, they looked like they did from my point of view. I remember looking up at them, so either they were pretty tall, or I must have been 2 or 3 years old at the time. :)

I still have a rose that I dug up out of their yard after Uncle Gene died. I think it is a wild climbing rose because it can be divided up after a few years. It climbs and blooms small red roses. I named it Uncle Gene since I got it from his yard.

• White Pampas grass
• Japanese Blood grass
• Muhlenbergis Lindheimeri 'Autumn Glow'
• Maiden grass
• Dwarf Fountain Grass- Penisetum atoopeuroides 'Hamlin'

My Vines:

• Honeysuckle
• Silver Lace (polygonum aubertii)
• Virginia Creeper
• Trumpet Vine
• Carolina Jessamine
• Pink Bougainvillea

• Sweet Broom (cytisus spachianus)
• Scotch Broom
• Persian Purple Lilac Hedge
• Blue Anise Sage
• Texas Sage (green cloud)
• Several assorted colors of: Salvia Greggii
• 6 - Butterfly Bush-2 Purple, 1 Yellow, 2 variegated (Buddelia)
• Lagerstroemia: 1 - Velma's Royal Delight (crape myrtle)
• Lagerstroemia: 2 - Centennial Spirit (crape myrtle)
• Lagerstroemia: 1 - Cedar Lane Red (crape myrtle)
• Lagerstroemia: 1- Cherry Dazzle (crape myrtle)
• Lagerstroemia: 1 - Dwarf Pink (crape myrtle)

• 1 Cottonless Cottonwood
• 2 Fruitless Mulberry
• 1 Purple Robe Locust
• 1 Acer Truncatum(Shantung Maple or Purple Blow Maple)
• 1 unknown Pine Tree
• 1 Florida King Peach- self pollinating
• 1 Apricot- self pollinating
• 1 Mimosa (silk tree)
• 1 Mexican Redbud
• 1 Dwarf Garden Delight Nectarine

Thanks to the people on the Trading Garden Secret Yahoo List, I fell in love with daylilies! I'm now up to almost 50 different varieties. I've bought them on Ebay and then I just bought a bunch from Gilbert H. & Wild & Son. I think I'll stick to when they have sales to buy them. They sent me the best portions of anyone, so I highly recommend them. I've also gotten several in trade known and unknown.

Anzac	Arctic Snow	Black Eyed Susan	Bright Sunset
Buried Treasure	Buttered Popcorn	Caprican Fiesta	Captured Love
Catherine Woodbury	Chardonnay	Cherry Cheeks	Christmas Angel
Christmas Is	Cup of Sugar	Exotic Love	Fairy Tale Pink
Gentle Shepherd	Get Set	Gold Embroidery	Grand National
Grand Tour	Hall's Pink	Hush Little Baby	Hyperion
Ice Carnival	Joseph's Dream	Joylene Nichole	Jungle Princess
Kwanso	Laugh & Sing	Lenox	Little Tyke
Love Those Eyes	Mary Poppins	Merry Sandman	Ming Toy
Mini Stella	Moonlit Masquerade	Naomi Ruth	Nordic Night
Oh, How Wonderful	Pandora's Box	Pardon Me	Peep of Dawn
Pink Charm	Pontentate	Purely	Round & Round
Settle Up	Siloam Ury Winniford	Spellbinder	Splendid Touch
Stella De Oro	Study in Scarlet	We Thank Thee	When Fortune Smiles
Wilson Yellow	Plum Perfect

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My Flowers and what's leftover in my garden:

 

• Scabiosa Atropurpurea "Black"
• Black Eyed Susan's
• Chrysanthemum (assorted)
• Iceplant
• Purple Coneflower
• Society Garlic
• Gallardia
• Assorted Dahlia's
• Asiatic Lilies (assorted)
• Oriental Lilies (assorted)
• Iris, regular, variegated, and bearded
• Lambs Ears
• Assorted Sedum
• Spiderwort
• Hollyhock
• Red Yucca
• Peony (Sarah Bernhardt)
• Assorted Canna

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These links are to my web pages.

• Our Ponds
• Desert Tortoise
• My Rose Garden
• Links for info & webrings

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