Sorry, I never finished this conversation as I got sick a week or so after that. Those are lovely, Kathy! How do you treat them in the summer? So encouraging to know that someone who lives up here can grow such amazing plants...
Off topic, are you near Northampton? The Smith College garden must be one of my favorite places in the world. Actually, I went to Smith because of it, I went along with my older sister when she was interviewing at Smith and I fell in love with the botanical garden. I didn't get accepted when I applied there but I went to UMass for a year an reapplied. I loved it there and I majored in Botany.
When I graduated, I moved to England and was so lucky to be able to spend time in the Oxford botanical gardens in Magdalen College and then, later, Kew. I used to pass Kew on my way home from work and stop whenever I could. I think it was 1 or 2 pence to go in. Mankind is not lost if such places can be created and maintained by humans.
