Happy Boxing Day , everyone ! Today ’s photos are from Odile LaComb in Messina , New York . Odile says,“We populate in Massena , New York , on the St. Lawrence River , which is the border between Canada and the U.S. I ’ve always treated my area as zone 4 but I calculate it up on the zone map and see that it ’s classified as zone 5a . Perhaps with the change in clime that ’s genuine now .
I ’ve loved flowers since I was a tike , but never had much time to devote to it until I retired 14 years ago . It ’s a unmanageable yard to evaluate with respect to sun and nicety . It ’s surround by large trees so it ’s hard for me to ascertain any area that get 6 hours of sunshine through spring , summer and fall . It ’s been an practice session of test and error . At any pace I have a lot of shade plants and an blanket diversity of hostas . ”Beautiful , Odile ! For those of you who are odd … “Odile is judge O’deal . . .it ’s a Gallic name I inherited from my French Canadian grandmother . ”
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2 WAYS TO ENLARGE!Click directly on the photo to enlarge in a pop-up, or click HERE to see this image, larger, in a new browser windowPhoto/Illustration: Courtesy of Odile LaComb
