Time with my sister Nan and her impossible English-style garden in Wyoming’s Powder River Country — the river, pumped up a bluff and distributed across the garden by a gaggle of hoses, keeps her roses, delphinium, peonies, and hundreds of annuals thriving through dry hot summers.Her flowers become wedding decor as gifts for brides in Johnson County, bouquets and church flowers she’s created for the last 25 years. She starts 1200 or so seedlings in her heated garage, defying cold spring weather to bring them to plantable size for the late May installation. Natural precipitation is less than 10 inches a year, and less than that in the recent droughty times. Watching her tend the garden reminds me how much water must sustain a delphinium or a tomato.
Home again, appreciating the view of Discovery Bay and the ease of turning on a faucet to make coffee or water the hepaticas. I’m well this summer, back to full energy (I think) and surrounded by blessings. I hope you are too. Mary
Hi Mary,
So glad to hear you are feeling good. We missed you at the Midd reunion. It was special to reconnect with classmates I hadn’t seen in 50 years. The campus looked beautiful.
Best,
Craig
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Hi Mary, your sister’s garden sounds a lovely gift to her community for celebrations! And it is so wonderful to hear that you are feeling so good. All best, Katy
hello Mary, such a fun story ~ you’ve told me about your floral-designer sister and I’m so pleased to learn more about her.>>> so happy you got to visit Wyoming, in spite of the different landscape there.
Hope to see you before too long, love, Debra
Enjoy the view for me too and please say hi to the kitties. Take care Mary.