No, haven't met them yet. Hoping to one day. Last year the ETRU and MSRU were to be on the same weekend. We were going on to Biloxi after the RU. It was cancelled at the last minute..so I missed out on both RUs.
You would like the LA bunch, I'm sure. They also come from MS, AL, AR, and TX. Jeri is a gracious hostess with a gorgeous garden.
This has been a crazy spring. RUs, family obligations, and other commitments. We leave again early next week for Illinois for a memorial service for my MIL who died (at 100) over Thanksgiving. Hoping to be at the SMRU, if just to visit. I'm supposed to do the horticultural classifications for the flower show at the botanical gardens on June 4th and 5th. I still haven't gotten all my plants that are in pots planted in ground. 'And unfortunatley, spring has sprung!