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It's probably not often 2 TEG members actually meet in person. I know Nacho and Vfem met.
Today she drove northward up hiway 101 and I drove southward down hiway 101, and we met at the Luther Burbank Gardens for their Mother's day plant sale. Met her nice husband too.
I felt kinda shy, trying to keep my minor agorophobia down to a not worry so much level.
We were both hoping to get some Burbank White Blackberry plants, but they had none for sale. Mary got some Pepper plants, I bought a succulent, and she discovered a small poster card with the white blackberry artistically done on it, and I bought it.
The gardens are basically the way they were last time I was there, course some new plantings in beds that are changed often. The tree in front of Burbank's main house, used to be a very large cedar of lebanon, that burbank was buried under is now gone. His grave was unmarked as I think he wanted it.
As I was getting ready to leave, Mary found where there were some white blackberry plants were growing! I think she went to talk to the nice ladies running the sale there about maybe transplanting out and buying one straight from the ground. Some nice ones were coming up from the ground. There were also "original" Burbank thornless blackberries, growing just like my burbank thornless blackberry plants, but with darker canes. I'm sure that those that have escaped have probably changed a bit in a few generations of seeding out. Mine has a greener cane.
Mary is a real nice gal! And even prettier in person than the photos of her.
It was a nice spring day for the ride. Warmer down in the valleys than up here in the hills.
Today she drove northward up hiway 101 and I drove southward down hiway 101, and we met at the Luther Burbank Gardens for their Mother's day plant sale. Met her nice husband too.
I felt kinda shy, trying to keep my minor agorophobia down to a not worry so much level.
We were both hoping to get some Burbank White Blackberry plants, but they had none for sale. Mary got some Pepper plants, I bought a succulent, and she discovered a small poster card with the white blackberry artistically done on it, and I bought it.
The gardens are basically the way they were last time I was there, course some new plantings in beds that are changed often. The tree in front of Burbank's main house, used to be a very large cedar of lebanon, that burbank was buried under is now gone. His grave was unmarked as I think he wanted it.
As I was getting ready to leave, Mary found where there were some white blackberry plants were growing! I think she went to talk to the nice ladies running the sale there about maybe transplanting out and buying one straight from the ground. Some nice ones were coming up from the ground. There were also "original" Burbank thornless blackberries, growing just like my burbank thornless blackberry plants, but with darker canes. I'm sure that those that have escaped have probably changed a bit in a few generations of seeding out. Mine has a greener cane.
Mary is a real nice gal! And even prettier in person than the photos of her.
It was a nice spring day for the ride. Warmer down in the valleys than up here in the hills.
