tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post6182430412367915134..comments2024-03-24T10:06:36.115-03:00Comments on Bloomingwriter: Gardening in Nova Scotia: Farewell, Fellow Plant AddictAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107236871193698777noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-91641021604518970712013-03-18T09:04:04.977-03:002013-03-18T09:04:04.977-03:00Beautiful tribute...The loss is so sad to our plan...Beautiful tribute...The loss is so sad to our plant world...I just know heaven has a special place for all of us! Pamie G.<br />Sunflower Dayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08789328092136716795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-90262131823795674832013-03-15T00:14:57.808-03:002013-03-15T00:14:57.808-03:00Jodi, this is a beautiful tribute. I'm so sorr...Jodi, this is a beautiful tribute. I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend and mentor. It sounds like her spirit lives on, in so many ways.Beth at PlantPostingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10473637655960119672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-13848509068751948122013-03-14T10:26:05.076-03:002013-03-14T10:26:05.076-03:00I was sad to see that Diana has left this world......I was sad to see that Diana has left this world...I had the good fortune to also have spent many afternoons with her,and her father..The heather that now grows in Gary's garden all came from Bayport many years ago..and so many other plants not available elsewhere at that time.I also remember the 'crazy' dogs..how frustrated she would get with them!! A great tribute to her Jodi...Realityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16607933394860197629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-72446182561218481002013-03-13T22:38:14.370-03:002013-03-13T22:38:14.370-03:00I'm so sorry, Jodi. What a lovely tribute.I'm so sorry, Jodi. What a lovely tribute.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17063046271695834588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-50940249342519231632013-03-13T16:36:57.280-03:002013-03-13T16:36:57.280-03:00A simply lovely tribute Jodi. A simply lovely tribute Jodi. Sybilhttp://crittersnus.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-54775857769241141442013-03-13T16:34:23.522-03:002013-03-13T16:34:23.522-03:00I knew Diana when she was a young girl. She was st... I knew Diana when she was a young girl. She was stunningly beautiful and full of life. Years later we met at the farm quite unexpectedly and it was a delight to see her. Her eyes sparkled and she immediately took my brother and me up to see Captain Steele in the greenhouse. <br /> Out came the "brown Betty" and we chatted over the best cup of tea that I had had in a very long time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-80676326625204511582013-03-13T15:37:13.384-03:002013-03-13T15:37:13.384-03:00Hi Jodi...I just made a comment but was wondering ...Hi Jodi...I just made a comment but was wondering about her dog...did she already find a good home for him when she went in the hospital? We had a great time with him...she let him out to run around before we left?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-56804254577759338612013-03-13T15:29:14.362-03:002013-03-13T15:29:14.362-03:00So, so sad. A great lady as her Dad and the expert...So, so sad. A great lady as her Dad and the expert knowledge she acquired over her years working with her father about plants and especially Rhodies will be missed by all of us who knew them. I met her many years ago also and then introduced my husband to her late last spring and she fell in love with him and gave us the grand tour in the back woods as we will call it where all the secrets Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-3923602326883177692013-03-13T14:24:17.453-03:002013-03-13T14:24:17.453-03:00I'm sorry for the loss of your dear friend. Y...I'm sorry for the loss of your dear friend. You wrote a lovely tribute to her and her father and their devotion to plants and the plant world will live on in Steeles' Legacy. I'll say a prayer for you in your time of grief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-39582869328732075962013-03-13T12:04:21.972-03:002013-03-13T12:04:21.972-03:00As always, your gift with words is as wonderful as...As always, your gift with words is as wonderful as with plants. I'm so sorry that I didn't get a chance to meet either of these talented and oh so knowledgeable 'plant addicts'. Your stories about them have made me feel very blessed; they happily enriched our lives with their life long studies. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing and writing such a touching tribute. I am truly Annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-5485883931776923092013-03-13T11:50:48.479-03:002013-03-13T11:50:48.479-03:00So Sorry for the loss of your friend...always a sa...So Sorry for the loss of your friend...always a sad time to say good-bye especially to those with warm LOving Hearts that lived their lives upon Mother-Earth in expanding, beautifying, tenderly caring & celebrating her gifts of creation within nature...truely the finest gifts we have ever been given ! Prayers & Blessings to her family & All her cherished LOved ones, it will be a lily-girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191621125200163569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-1133653883209875872013-03-13T11:32:58.978-03:002013-03-13T11:32:58.978-03:00Jodi what a lovely tribute and Dinah has placed th...Jodi what a lovely tribute and Dinah has placed the care of her legacy in the wonderful hands of another plantswoman, you!Donna@Gardens Eye Viewhttp://gardenseyeview.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-44185412754629045582013-03-13T08:02:38.831-03:002013-03-13T08:02:38.831-03:00So many eras are overlapping and moving forwards. ...So many eras are overlapping and moving forwards. So many sorrows yet so many good memories.<br /><br />When the blue flower came up I checked the calendar, remembering an April Fool's Day post you did in which everything was blue.<br /><br />I like rhododenrons. They are dramatic. Sometimes they get a bad press here because they can be invasive - and they are big plants to be invasive! But Esther Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412078991551799972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-13049399024415516522013-03-13T04:46:13.073-03:002013-03-13T04:46:13.073-03:00Such an interesting and gracious tribute... they s...Such an interesting and gracious tribute... they sound like "my kind of people" having had such zest for the plant kingdom! I love the lableing system as well and can thing of nothing more to the point! I'm sorry for the loss of what was a wonderful kinship for you...LarryLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13563036192373891209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-81727576377650765262013-03-13T01:33:16.163-03:002013-03-13T01:33:16.163-03:00Your tribute is as beautiful as the rhodies that g...Your tribute is as beautiful as the rhodies that grow around the world. I too have been blessed by the knowledge of both my cousin Diana and Uncle Dick. It was them who taught me so much about gardening, as well as our family history. <br />I hope that I am able to get Steeles`Legacy, and that it will survive here in New Brunswick. I`ve lost many loved ones in my lifetime However every Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-70116111971778458812013-03-13T00:12:12.632-03:002013-03-13T00:12:12.632-03:00Jodi, What a wonderful tribute from one plantswoma...Jodi, What a wonderful tribute from one plantswoman to another. Thank you for sharing your memories of Dinah. -JeanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-92161545788519155782013-03-12T20:18:04.120-03:002013-03-12T20:18:04.120-03:00A lovely tribute, and a perfect goodbye to a dear ...A lovely tribute, and a perfect goodbye to a dear friend.<br />Marilyn PettingaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-6051862103384652782013-03-12T20:14:12.249-03:002013-03-12T20:14:12.249-03:00very beautiful Jodi, I've only met her twice ...very beautiful Jodi, I've only met her twice walked us around the farm that year , it was like a site seeing bus where your actually got to stop every time a name popped out -the deer were bad that winter prior and they did a wonderful pruning job.<br />I hope were ever they are it is always rhodo time Tracey Martinhttp://www.liliesfromthevalley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-44462121040509458182013-03-12T19:47:00.641-03:002013-03-12T19:47:00.641-03:00Such a beautiful tribute to Diana Steele...and Ste...Such a beautiful tribute to Diana Steele...and Steeles' Legacy.<br />Dee BlaineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20831949.post-19145262094407835642013-03-12T19:23:41.382-03:002013-03-12T19:23:41.382-03:00Jodi, what a lovely tribute. I'm so sorry for ...Jodi, what a lovely tribute. I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope Steeles' Legacy lives on in many a garden. The Messy Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02231485575194758530noreply@blogger.com