>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:31:19 -0700 >From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com >To: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com >Subject: BOUNCE gardeners@globalgarden.com: Admin request of type >Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:35:59 -0500 >From: Allen and Judy Merten <jbmerten@swbell.net> >Reply-To: jbmerten@swbell.net >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: gardeners@globalgarden.com >Subject: welcome to Texas neighvbor >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Victoria, > We are neighbors as distances go in Texas. We live east of you in >Bastrop Co., east of Bastrop. > Have you joined the wildgardens mailing list? > wildgardens-request@userhome.com type "s" (use whole word - George) in the body, >nothing in the subject > Here is the address for Texas Parks and Wildlife web site > www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ > You can get info on how to contact the Urban and non-game program >which is the dept. that handles the program for Wildscape Certification. > > If you want to contact a good native seed source, Native American >Seed 1-800-728-4043 Junction, Tx ... www.seedsource.com > > I have a bunch of stuff from the Wildscape program. Its very >informative on native plants; wildflowers, trees and shrubs to supply >food, nesting and just general habitat for song birds, hummingbirds, >butterflies and herps. > I have 11 books on native plants and trees. The best one I think is >"Native Texas Plants, Landscaping Region by Region" by Sally Wasowski >and Andy Wasowski. > My wife and I lived most of our lives on the coast in Galveston Co. >We wanted to have mostly native plants, but we love hibiscus type >shrubs. Since the drought of '98 we are going to go with 100% native >plants and shrubs. There are even some native shrubs that are in the >hibiscus family, so that's the way we are going to go. Everything, 100% >of the non-native flowers and bushes, died, crispy brown dead. It wasn't >lack of water it was the incredible heat. We had 40 odd days over 100F, >many at or above 105F. > Any how, welcome to the Texas, glad to see you on gardeners, hope to >see you on wildgardens. I hope the information I gave you is helpful and >not a duplication of what you already had. > Allen > Bastrop Co.,Tx. > Wildscape #1071 > > > >