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Hello, I think this sounds a wonderful opportunity. I found the site one day last week whilst looking for canna info. Today I tried for taxus info. because my taxus needs rejuvenating and i didn't want to help it into the next world. I wrote to some Dutch sites but your Q/A system covers far more ground. Only disadvantage for me is the zones sometimes talked about mean nothing to me. My area of The Netherlands is in the NE. Our winters are cold and windy. The air is very clean. Spring starts about two weeks later than lower down, about half March. General advice about flowering plants is not to plant anything until after 15 May due to night frosts. What area would that correspond to in the US. My garden is my greatest past time. My hysband asks when it will be 'ready' and I say I hope never.... We have lived here for 4 years now and the house is 80 years old. The ground is acid PH 5.0 and I am working on that now with bentoniet and ground lavastone. (I hope they mean something to you) The taxus likes that but the roses needed new ground before i could plant them so they were the first plants to get their own special garden. I inherited dahlia corms last year. They bloomed profusely last summer after storage in my cellar last winter. I hope that this summer they are as beautiful. I also got 6 cannas last summer and they went into my garden a bit late in our season to really do well. I took them out in the autumn kept them under light cover in an unused room off my landing. A few weeks ago when i brought them downstairs there were 26 babies. My husband said next year you will tell me that their are 345 and the year after that we will have to sell the house because their will be no room in the garden for the cannas. I now have them in pot plant soil in 26 deep plastic flower pots (the kind roses are delivered in) on my guest bed where plastic sheeting is protecting the covers. Last year the dahlias had this pride of place but unfortunately they are now completely covering my shed floor space. also lightly covered with potting plant soil. Under the corms I have garden turf (sort of compost) that is rougher but very good for the nutrients.
Yesterday when trying to fix some garden string to help one of my honeysuckles (lonicera) I fell and damaged my ankle so I will be house bound for the next week and that is why I have time to write such a gigantic letter to you. I love the site and the idea behind it. I will look into the GWUK one just now too and see if that is as good cq. useful for me.
Very best wishes to you all and thank you.
Lindy