Master Gardener

[lsanderson]

In the Garden
Taking a Class, Joining a Tribe
By ANNE RAVER

WHEN I signed up for a master gardening class last fall, I knew I would fill some of the gaps in my self-education as a gardener, but I didn’t know that I would find such an eclectic family of like-minded souls.

Need some fall broccoli seedlings, because you forgot to water yours?

Looking for free composted sheep manure?

Or how about some naked ladies — pink lilies (Amaryllis belladonna), not real ladies — that bloom in the fall on curiously leafless stems? Pamela White, 64, a garden designer in Glyndon, Md., gave them to me. They are big, fat, wonderful bulbs, to be planted in the ground just like narcissus. About a month ago, after a terribly hot, dry summer, a little forest of naked stems nosed out of the ground, grew to an incongruous two feet — and opened their pale pink trumpets. More

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[ginahelen.livejournal.com]

Or how about some naked ladies — pink lilies (Amaryllis belladonna), ...[something I couldn't quite read] — that bloom in the fall on curiously leafless stems?

I love this image.