Tink this is a great idea. Loved your story and you are just so pretty, just needed to let you know that. Here is mine.
I don't have a lot of Pics. of me as I am always the one taking Pics. but this is My Husband Jim and Myself in the Back Middle, Brother Mike and wife Krista on the left and Brother Bob and wife Jackie on the right and Dad :
"Bud" in the middle before he passed on.Many Many moons ago I was helping my dad care for my mother 1068-1972. She had MS. I had so much time on my hands and in the yard a few of her plants bloomed and I fell in love with flowers. I became obsessed. I planted and purchased anything that would grow,.I had seeds coming up everywhere in the house. We had to eat in front of the TV as the table was covered with seedlings. I bought books and read and studied. I learned a lot of Latin from that and my dad was a Pharmacist and my Mother a Nurse Anesthetist so that helped.
After she could no longer be cared for at home I went to work at the Sheriff Office and retired after 20 years there in 1995 and worked as a House Parent for a cple years at a Youth Home here. All the while I kept gardening and people came to me for advise on a regular basis. I went to work at the local greenhouse as a grower and plant specialist. I always in the back of my mind remembered a neighbor of my parents bringing my mother these pretty yellow daylilies in a vase with a few white Peonies. It was just beautiful. I never did see any nice ones other than those-just the orange ditch lilies. One day I decided there had to be more to them by now so sent for a catalog from Floyd Cove Nursery that I saw an Ad for in one of the Magazines we had at the Greenhouse. The rest is history, I was hooked at how they had progressed.
We bought a little business in Dec. 1999 The Snack Shop and in 2003 started an Ice Cream Shop " 38 BELOW " with it. We just sold it and retired Sept. 1. so now I can devote the time I need to the Daylilies I hope will become Winners. Actually I just want beauties and everyone else to enjoy them.
I am Married to a wonderful Man Jim. We will have been married 28 years in November. No children but a lot of nieces and nephews have filled the void.
It has been 4 years now since I planted my first Hybrids just to enjoy. The last 2 years I have been in the process of developing myself into what I hope.
some of the seed beds
My First Seedling
some of the seed beds
My First Seedling
